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Brand was right, we need a revolution
Mouth Russell Brand took on veteran BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman in a Newsnight interview subsequently ... viewed millions of times on YouTube. The journalist, veteran of many bruising encounters with politicians ... edition of left-leaning magazine The New Statesman on the theme of revolution. As well as a 4500-word ...
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Ten new political albums worth a listen- April 2015
album, or albums, would you suggest? Comment below, on Twitter or Facebook. 1. SUPER BEST FRIENDS- STATUS ... UPDATES On April 4, Australian politics reached a fresh low as anti-Islamic "Reclaim Australia" ... update reading: "Like any other brand capitalising on idiots, we thought in light of the Reclaim ...
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Presidential elections expose true nature of US democracy
Republican George W. Bush? As of this writing, it's still too close to call. Based on the peculiar ... democracy based on one-person, one-vote. It is a federal republic where the states have significant ... Only the House of Representatives is based on actual population size. So New Mexico has three House ...
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Things you should never ever swallow
Political Process" (13th ed.): Democratic government rests on an assembly of men, and some few women ... cheerless. Now read on. Discourse on to the nature of choice offered: Let us face facts. Coffee has shattered ... Here we are almost perched on the threshold of a new millennium and no one gives a budgie's arse ...
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Latin America's CELAC summit debates push back against US power, economic measures
summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) began on January 26 with the ... Ricardo Patino opened the summit with a statement on the goals of CELAC in eradicating poverty, fighting ... 'Liberating' Latin America Left-wing Bolivian President Evo Morales called on CELAC to continue its mission of ...
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Ireland: has the peace process failed?
would be on the cards. In the shorter term, reactionary pressure will be heaped on women to produce ... By John Meehan DUBLIN — The referendum held on both sides of the Irish border on the 1998 Good ... carry out a new military campaign were on a road to disaster. The armed struggle was in a cul-de-sac ...
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Gaza starves: End Israel's blockade!
concentration camps during World War II". On January 18, Israel moved to prevent UN humanitarian aid ... Early on January 23 more than 20,000 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip poured into ... "an enemy entity". On September 19, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert voted to ...
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Tony Cliff — a life for revolution
"front" organisations, Women's Voice and the black group Flame. Others on the left, particularly the ... central leader of the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), died on April 10, aged 82. Cliff built what ... without a penny in his pocket. A teenager in Palestine, Cliff was won to Trotskyism in the 1930s. Based on ...
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McAliskey: 'We want a new negotiation'
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey to a public meeting in San Francisco on April 25. We are being pushed into ... were specifically invited. Right-wing, paramilitary organisations on the unionist side were ... mandate of Sinn Féin has already been eroded. The basis on which they have been allowed to sit is dictated ...
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Burma: By-election win shows desire for change
Burma, went to the polls on April 1 for crucial by-elections that have generated much attention. The ... people in the Karen, Shan and Kachin states. It is still at war with the freedom fighters, even going so ... still abducting children, as young as 11, as cannon fodder in wars against its own people. The national ...
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ACEH: With 300,000 dead: 'We must have a cease fire'
phone from Jakarta on January 27. The FPDRA has been active in organising students, farmers and women ... quoted in the Jakarta Post on January 27: "The warring parties must sit together and be willing to ... the war and the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) continue to be so powerful here. It is enough that the ...
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UNITED STATES: What's behind the split in the AFL-CIO?
federation during and after the federation's convention held on July 25-28 in Chicago. By running away ... a year of organising by members of US Labor Against the War. The differences between labour's rival ... labour officialdom. AFL-CIO leaders responded by pushing through a series of bureaucratic war measures ...
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VENEZUELA: Right-wing's campaign of sabotage escalates
attempt to transform Venezuela. So far, the Venezuelan government has been able to rely on support from ... Referendum However, the next battle is looming. This battle may take place not on the streets but in the ... signatures on a petition to constitutionally require the government to hold such a referendum. No date has ...
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The Whitlam myth
Trade Union Education Foundation on February 9 — although it's not clear why the ABC should not ... promoting the party. Labor clubs on university campuses have begun calling themselves Whitlam clubs. Why is ... the ALP now looking back on the Whitlam government with nostalgia, as though it were some sort of ...
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Refugee policy nothing to be proud of
Philip Ruddock had to say about two feature stories in the Los Angeles Times on Australia's ... was published on January 4. It began: "Australia's tough policies to deter refugees have ... those who arrive without authorisation. Paddock pointed out that many on board the boat that sank off ...
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Compensate the stolen generations!
of the Aboriginal movement in land rights, educational access and so on. To respond to Herron's ... associate together. "It doesn't work of course. People moved on, looking for their children. They ... people on, remove any further children, and the cycle continues." The renunciation of Aboriginality ...
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PALESTINE: Israel covers up ethnic cleansing
— the attempt to force out Palestinians out of their national homeland. During the attacks on ... Nahda Women's Society for the Hearing Impaired. The al Quds University Educational Television ... Solomon's judgement of the two women who desired the same baby. I remember how when Solomon ruled that the ...
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Politicians and parliament: young people want change
forests, whether to create jobs, go to war and so on. And they do so based on the profit, rather than the ... women's rights, for the environment and so on as much after the election as before it. February 21, 1996 ... people can have an affect on politics even if they can't vote through their schools and activist ...
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May Day's revolutionary traditions
By Jorge Jorquera On May Day we recall past victories and foreshadow future battles. This day we ... it stands for. On May 1, 1886, Chicago workers went on strike, demanding an eight-hour day. Workers ... Square on May 4. The peaceful assembly was descended upon by police after a bomb explosion. Police fired ...
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Congo denies UN 'smears' over human rights
uprising that deposed the Mobutu dictatorship) have been hindered by the new government. On October 2, UN ... it first visit Mbandaka in the north-west on the Congo River. "The UN commission is more ... the east, launching terrorist attacks on farms, schools and government offices in Congo and western ...
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Can the UN save the planet?
By Sean Malloy More than 20,000 people will be attending the United Nations Conference on ... conventions on climate change, biodiversity and forestry; an Earth Charter to guide development in a manner ... Even though these documents would not be legally binding on governments, there are major divisions on ...
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CUBA: EU lines up with US, Latin America rebuffs Powell
BY DOUG LORIMER On June 12, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Vice-President Raul Castro led more ... tourists for Cuba. In a statement released to the media on June 5 — hours before it was delivered to the ... a statement on June 11 that said the EU's decision was motivated by European leaders' desire to show ...
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'Absolute tyranny' in Pakistan
By Nadeem Ansari On August 28, the Pakistan government introduced a bill — the Fifteenth Amendment ... Pakistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, speaking from the floor of the assembly and broadcast live on ... national TV on August 30, described the bill as historic and aimed at creating a new society based on ...
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COVER STORY: Israel massacres Palestinian refugees
BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Israel's attack on the Jenin refugee camp will be recorded as one ... kilometre. The camp barely exists today. For nine days, beginning on April 5, thousands of Israeli soldiers, ... leg all but ripped off by a helicopter rocket, the mangled remains hanging on by a thread of skin as ...
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VENEZUELA: Workers' movement debates way forward
the liberation movement in Colombia under the guise of the "wars" on drugs and terrorism. ... to the first national congress of the National Union of Workers (UNETE) of Venezuela on August 1-2. ... principles and action plan. From the workshop on principles came the clear call for the transformation of ...