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  1. After the cyclone: rebuilding in Bangladesh

    Bangladesh-Pakistan war, and has long provided relief and medical aid to the poor, particularly during the 1988 flood ... southern Bangladesh on May 2, and the first relief materials arrived the following day. After touring the ... are some 300 such shelters built around the coastal belt of Bangladesh, raised on eight metre columns ...

  2. Supporting the poor against the rich

    Nicaraguans to survive 20 years of natural disaster, revolution, economic blockade and war. Through many ... producers, women's organisations, community groups, local government and demobilised members of the ... red, orange and green market, desperate people try to sell anything they can lay hands on, as parrots, ...

  3. Can Australian nationalism be progressive?

    sent troops to China and Malaysia, and the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf wars β€” always on the side of the ... paid less than the award rate. Aboriginal women working on stations as domestics were excluded from the ... in Canberra on August 19, 1996. Many people responded to One Nation by saying that racism is ...

  4. The politics of postmodernism

    philosophy or post-feminism in women's collectives, in the last analysis it all boils down to basically ... which postmodernism is either a critique or a continuation depending on which postmodernist you read. ... Modernism Modernism is premised on the view that human beings have begun to seize control of history; that ...

  5. Iran may be the greatest crisis of modern times

    being prosecuted as war criminals, Blair as a private citizen may no longer be untouchable. On March 20, ... and some were dying", she says. "Then my mother saw these German women looking at the ... Bush-Cheney-Blair "long war" edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation's independence ...

  6. Basque Country: Left nationalists rising

    a progressive income tax, a wealth tax, higher company tax, an inheritance tax and a war on tax evasion (already ... daily settings”. The anti-nationalist media have portrayed this as involving a war on Castilian ... Basque politics, its lead candidate was a woman and its candidates 50% men and 50% women. Campaign ...

  7. The tragic fate of the Merak Tamils

    stranded on the boat at Merak. She spoke about the fate of those refugees, some of who are now in ... detention, and some who recently tried again to come to Australia β€” with fatal consequences. * * * On June 7, ... being in the water for almost 12 hours. Two survived. Two of those who died had been on the Jaya ...

  8. The great escape: free the refugees!

    the Woomera detention centre in the South Australian desert at midnight on June 7, when 200 asylum ... apologised to local residents for the disruption. They gathered on the main street of the town demanding to ... the worldΒ”, one asylum seeker told the Sydney Morning Herald. On June 9, 250 asylum seekers broke out ...

  9. Last growl of the tigers?

    Distress debunks this myth by tackling it head on. The authors identify the real reasons for the ... their counterparts in the US, and 14% of Japanese workers in manufacturing industries. Women ... 's wages in South Korea are half those of men. The average work week is 54 hours, and on average five ...

  10. CUBA: 'What we have to change is the world'

    costs, on average, some US$8 million. Do the children of the rich go to the unjust and illegal war in ... Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva on March 17. The Commission on Human Rights has lost ... Ghraib? The guarantee of the enjoyment of human rights today depends on whether you live in a developed ...

  11. Race, financial crisis and Obama

    encourage the bigots to push back on other programs that benefit minorities and women. Few illusions African ... economy impact on working people in the US, particularly African Americans. The so-called unfettered free ... of his skin. While there are some differences on domestic and foreign policy, both men would ...

  12. Sympathy for the devil: Film justifies Thatcher's crimes

    a determined reformer, taking on the power of vested interests (whether the toffs of the Tory party or the ... from. The sinking of the Argentinean warship General Belgrano, during the brief but brutal British war ... focuses on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing campaign within Britain- particularly the attack on the ...

  13. VENEZUELA: Hugo Chavez challenges Bush's empire

    world's oppressed, particularly after the country's strident opposition to Israel's wars on ... corporations with his people-first policies, but Venezuela could be successful in obtaining a temporary seat on ... something that the US elite must avoid. He wrote that "the remaining hope on the calendar for ...

  14. The other evolutionist

    Archipelago where, in 1858 during a bout of malaria on the Indonesian island of Ternate, he was to have his ... (but not published) 20 years earlier. Darwin, the orthodox Anglican, had sat on his discovery that all ... Darwin. Lenin was to keep a bust of Darwin on his desk in the Kremlin. Wallace had none of the ...

  15. Violence and its victims

    frustrations on the rest of us. W ithout the threat of a current war, impending invasion or communism to shore ... punching, poking, prodding and biffing on Bugs Bunny. As the press and prime minister will readily tell you, ... there is a correlation between violence on TV and aggression in daily life. So while it is supposedly ...

  16. Olympics show sport is political

    watched a live women’s volleyball match between China and Cuba at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A further 450 ... on β€œthe proposition that Communism was an evil before which all other evils were insignificant”. ... polices. He said he accepted the South African government’s argument that there were only whites on their ...

  17. Britain: Tackling the fascist cancer of the BNP

    other words the premeditated murder of men, women and children on a desperate voyage to escape poverty ... National Party in June has removed the cover on a political sewer that should have been sealed for all ... It is time for the anti-fascist movement to go on the offensive. Griffin's Nazi-style outbursts ...

  18. ACEH: civil emergency ends but troops remain

    James Balowski, Jakarta At midnight on May 18, the Indonesian government declared an end to its ... constitution were non-negotiable. He said that a deadline would be placed on the negotiations. Aceh was placed ... under martial law on May 19, 2003, after Jakarta sabotaged an earlier series of talks with GAM. This was ...

  19. UNITED STATES: America's terrorist training camp

    graduates from the school continue to tear at the foundations of Latin America β€” the "war on ... silence dissent. Graduates from the SOA have gone on to use the techniques learned there to rape, ... intimidate, torture and exterminate civilians in numbers far greater than those killed on September 11 β€” yet ...

  20. Does meat make the meal?

    some people's view of pathology, meat is not a toxic substance. On an animal and vegetable ... insisted that if we all "gave up eating meat there would be no more wars." This same social logic ... permeates the modern macrobiotic movement. One of its leaders, Michio Kushi, blames high dependence on meat ...

  21. German socialists explain election gains

    force in Germany with a clear position for the choice of women on abortion. As well we have a clear ... for East Germans within the united Germany, and we are focused on the problems of everyday life which ... keep German frontiers open for people who have to flee wars, or who are politically persecuted. We also ...

  22. Campaigning against resource insecurity

    renewable energy sources, and we still rely largely on oil and are prepared to go to war for it. There is ... being logged, the planned resources security legislation and the Gulf War. Certain environment groups ... a bad precedent for other industries, such as mining, to carry on destroying the natural environment. ...

  23. Mardi Gras: from politics to business

    women's, left and trade union groups, attended the July 15 march, which called on the NSW Labor government ... movements of the 1960s and 1970s, including the anti-Vietnam War, the women's and black rights ... receivers of this letter called together a small coalition of activists: women and men from the radical ...

  24. ZIMBABWE: Mugabe regime product of failure of nationalist politics

    cadres returned with socialist politics and an understanding of guerrilla war. Their older leaders had ... sat out the rest of the war. A similar process occurred in ZANU in the mid-1970s. Guerrillas ... women's, students and human rights organisations formed the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in ...

  25. ACEH: Independence sentiment a result of Suharto legacy

    1999, up to a million Acehnese participated in a mass demonstration demanding a referendum on ... and NGO organisations developed. These included student, human rights, women's, farmer and other ... response, as in all guerrilla war situations, was to attempt to forcibly separate the guerrilla fighters ...

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