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  1. 'Stand truly by each other'

    taken by 500 miners at the Eureka goldfield, near Ballarat in Victoria, on November 30, 1854. In early ... Australian workers' movement urgently needs today. This excellent pamphlet by Hamish McPherson on the ... the colonial troops and police launched their treacherous attack at dawn on December 3, 1854, rapidly ...

  2. The Holocaust: 'May history attest to us'

    supported the Nazis, including spying on other clergymen for the fascists. Beyond them, there was a vast ... began murdering Jewish women and children, and in August and September they annihilated whole Jewish ... Becher was arrested and charged with war crimes for his part in the mass murder of Hungarian Jews. ...

  3. Zimbabwe: Political rollercoaster hits another deep dip

    Tsvangirai's frame-up on a bogus treason charge, and his party's inability to campaign peacefully in many ... on boycotting Mugabe's new Senate. Ironically, in this election MDC-Tsvangirai has posted ... challenge Mugabe on February 5. In ZANU-PF's case, the split may yet become serious, but now amounts to ...

  4. The system sux

    were often the first to campaign against the Vietnam war, for women's and black rights, sparking ... enormous pressure on young people to perform. The stresses of Year 12 exams result in numerous suicides ... guarantee of permanent work at the end. Young people on the dole will suffer increased harassment if ...

  5. Coltrane and the jazz revolution

    Luther King eulogising four black children blown up in a racist attack on a church in 1963. African ... Minh. This powerful movement for freedom combined with, and inspired, the huge anti-Vietnam War movement ... and women's liberation movement to spark a massive youth radicalisation that shook US society. ...

  6. Revolutionary reform in South Africa

    to a squatter camp and without any reason whatsoever, you blast up some shacks, killing women and ... those kinds of people." As well, Cronin says, they were losing the propaganda war for those first ... few years. "This was the success of the low-intensity war. The regime was getting away with it, ...

  7. Interview with ANC Youth League president

    to keep people apart, and today, with the right wing, they are trying to force a racial war on us. It ... leadership's hold on militant township youth. Reports in the Australian media of the events surrounding the ... overseas. He was sentenced to six years on the notorious Robben Island but released on appeal after one year ...

  8. Dave Zirin: US college football players win right to form union

    a football player who died on the field of play failed in her efforts to sue the National Collegiate Athletic ... β€œstudent-athletes”. The experts were proven wrong on March 26, and the established order in the sports world has been ... offer players a cut of the shoe money? What if the best players, as was suggested to me on Twitter, now ...

  9. Honduras: Violent repression being backed by US and Canada

    Enforcement Administration officers killed at least four Honduran civilians ― including two pregnant women ... ― in the name of the "drug war", two more journalists, Alfredo Villatoro and Erick Martinez ... North Americans must keep on writing and pressuring their elected politicians and other government ...

  10. John Pilger: Impoverished and silenced, we must fight back

    β€œWhy are you standing in front of each door like a soldier on parade?” β€œNew system,” he replied. β€œI am ... and β€œpublic service” is normal. Prime ministers who lie openly about lobbyists and war aims are ... activist group UK Uncut forces bank branches to close and six brave women climb the highest building in ...

  11. Hamas, Fatah finalising 'unity' cabinet

    against Hamas. According to the results of a PCPSR poll, published on September 18, 54% of respondents ... leader and PA President Mahmoud Abbas has not carried through on his threat to dissolve the Palestinian ... moment to start an open war for fear of a public backlash. They prefer to remove Hamas through imposing ...

  12. So who was Sylvia Plath?

    poetry in this period. She was on the panel of the BBC radio program The Critics, which drew an audience ... the total disrespect for life and humanity of World War Two, as the world's imperialist powers ... had been broken but new ones not yet written. She lashes out against lack of freedom, women ...

  13. Past and future at stake in Nicaragua

    Its ads try to rekindle memories of the war which racked Nicaragua in the 1980s (without mentioning ... the Chamorro government's minister of education, on being promised the same ministry by AlemΓ‘n, ... have been made with producers, women, youth and the churches. The FSLN's economic plan has been ...

  14. The people's politician in Adelaide

    of the ALP left. Joan (as she assured us she likes to be called), was here on October 10 to address ... Duncan has long been portrayed as a leftie, speaking at anti-Gulf War demos and Cuba solidarity events. ... women's rights. She really didn't agree with the economic rationalism of the NSW Labor right. And ...

  15. Reactionary to the bootstraps

    University. Later he became a High Court barrister and, after a spell as attorney general in Victoria, went on ... the media's own grand poobah of the loony right, revealed on early television footage as an ... legacy, the Liberal Party after his retirement, is touched on with merciful brevity. Menzies was ...

  16. Campaign seeks human rights for Puerto Rican prisoners

    By Rodolfo Casals Fifteen Puerto Rican independence fighters, including six women, are currently ... country was occupied in 1898. This charge was instituted for the first time during the US Civil War. It ... 1950 it was applied to Oscar Collazo, sentenced to death for an attack on the White House and in 1954 ...

  17. Sri Lanka's Tamils let down by Cuba and ALBA

    since 1983 until its defeat on May 19, 2009. During the last year of war the Sri Lankan government ... law on both sides of the civil war: "For its part, the Government reportedly used heavy artillery ... our America) β€” on May 27, when signing a UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution praising the ...

  18. Australia's racist past and present

    The nationalist rejoicing and fervour displayed on January 26 each year celebrates the 1788 ... lives on today in truly catastrophic social indicators: β€’Aboriginal life expectancy is around 20 years ... men and 18.8 to 19.6 for women. For men, this is a lower life expectancy than in Papua New Guinea, ...

  19. UNITED STATES: Democrats take care of business

    Republicans know how to throw a bash on corporate America's dime. Except the party described above took ... "party of working people" β€” and depend on their base of unions and liberal organisations for votes ... important victories, and it's no wonder that working people look back on the politicians associated ...

  20. Tales from the Vietnam Moratorium in Victoria

    rallies, the Gulf War protests and countless smaller meetings. I am the stereotypical ... "professional" demonstrator, and my battered station wagon, with loudspeakers mounted on the roof, must be about ... the most photographed vehicle in Victoria. As my use-by date approaches, I now concentrate on ...

  21. No future for nuclear

    peace. Nuclear energy and the drive towards war go hand in glove. We should remember the women ... Several hundred people marched and rallied in Brisbane on Palm Sunday, calling for an end to the ... keynote speaker was former Victorian Labor MLC and long-time activist Joan Coxsedge. On the eighth ...

  22. Frenzal Rhomb's Lindsay McDougall: Close slaughterhouses β€” respect animals and workers

    Country/Sydney The third annual March to Close all Slaughterhouses was held in Sydney on June 4. The march is ... reflection on the abuse and exploitation suffered by millions of animals every day and a celebration of the ... around her. She's seen so much, heard so much on the inside of those heavy doors. Every day ...

  23. Letter from the US: Bernie Sanders taps anger, but Democratic Party a trap

    socialist groups and between them on how best to relate to this opportunity. On one side are those who have ... joined Sanders’ campaign. On the other are those who argue against that course and seek to convince ... Sanders’ supporters to break with the Democrats. This is an old debate on the left in the US. It is not ...

  24. Short story: The good fight of Elvis and Marilyn in cyberspace

    with a woman on the Net? I don't meet many women on the Net. No. There aren't many of us ... with a long history of mutual posturing on both sides. No more war! Clever, I thought to myself. ... some protected government records searching for police data on my neighbours when she returned. Hi ...

  25. Zombie neoliberalism threatens Ecuador's 'citizen's revolution'

    country's entrenched elites. Supporters of Correa marched through the capital of Quito on August 12 to the ... Allianza Pais (Country Alliance) party were bombed on July 14 in the city of Guayacuil. Packages containing ... Guillermo Lasso. They have called for a β€œnational strike” on August 13 involving right-wing parties, ...

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