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  1. Jewish writer's answer to Israel's question

    American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC) have a strong influence on government policy in the US is ... racist attitudes to Arabs and Muslims; and the failure of progressive movements to challenge US policy on ... Israel successfully". While these factors no doubt have some influence on US policy, Loewenstein ...

  2. IRAQ: Getting the purple finger

    Trojan horse in the UIA. (You didn't think it was going to put all its money on Allawi, did you?) In ... Monetary Fund. On troop withdrawal, al Mahdi sounds nothing like his party's platform and instead ... appears to be channelling Vice-President Dick Cheney on Fox News: "When the Americans go will depend ...

  3. Le Carre comes in from the cold

    than spy vs spy. With the end of the Cold War, Le Carre's books have become increasingly concerned ... takes on "unbridled capitalism". The theme of Constant Gardener is a familiar one for Le Carre ... distributed to Kenyan women, Dypraxa, which she suspected had not completed a clinical trial period. As it ...

  4. The truth about Cuba

    by US radio stations calling on Cubans to boycott the election. Unlike in the US or Australia, ... on production plans according to what they believe is achievable. Unlike in the former Stalinist ... inefficiency, and the stifling effect it had on Cuba's economic and social life. The revolutionary ...

  5. Yeltsin abolishes military call-up — or does he?

    off to a shooting war, they are traditionally subjected to beating and humiliation by older troops. ... be foolish not to consider the impact on the officer corps. Press reports suggest that most military ... contract soldiers — in Russian, kontraktniki — including about 100,000 women. The cost of maintaining ...

  6. Chavez's internationalism changed the world

    and the ultimate arbiter of the key issues of the economy, politics and war. Yet, though changes of ... assuredly, his role not only carried decisive weight in the early course of these changes, but will go on to ... world stage. This mantle now falls on the government over which Nicolas Maduro will preside after ...

  7. Honduras: Corporate plunder and US-backed coups

    around the coup on June 28 with scrappy bits and pieces of context. Adequate context and ... significant advances in social legislation, especially labour legislation. Women got the right to vote in ... Johnson. From that coup through the 1960s and '70s, Honduras took its lead on every important regional ...

  8. Cardinal: 'We need more socialists in the union movement'

    education to put towards the war on Iraq, for example." Cardinal says that "some left-wing unions ... have good policies on social issues like refugees, and Aboriginal rights and equal rights for women ... Cardinal is an active member of the Socialist Alliance. He is the Queensland representative on the ...

  9. Obama's historic victory: people want change!

    the international free market. Obama's early opposition to the Iraq war was also a factor. Eight ... 100% of the Black vote, a large majority of Latino and women voters, and a majority of Jewish voters. ... the constitution as the legitimate property of slaveholders. It took a civil war in the 1860s to end ...

  10. Socialist Alliance prepares for new challenges

    anti-war movement (with an immediate focus on next year's anniversary of Iraq invasion protests and ... conference held at Geelong Trades Hall on October 29. Fifty five delegates from across Australia met in ... Reflecting on the current push to join or back the ALP as the only way to defeat Howard, Cain said he'd ...

  11. Behind the victory against prison torture in Turkey

    fighting colonisation." After World War I, Turkey was invaded by France and England. "This ... of Turkey's ruling elite using Marshall Plan funding in the aftermath of World War II. ... revolutionary forces physically — but not ideologically. Courageously, 1 million people marched in Istanbul on ...

  12. Behind the victory against prison torture in Turkey

    fighting colonisation." After World War I, Turkey was invaded by France and England. "This ... of Turkey's ruling elite using Marshall Plan funding in the aftermath of World War II. ... revolutionary forces physically — but not ideologically. Courageously, 1 million people marched in Istanbul on ...

  13. Foundation stories

    River Colony on June 5. They have learned the story of the "settlement" of their state, of ... civilisation. They wrote with concern about a "wanton attack" on a group of the original owners of the ... land — people who were shot at on sight. It was a troubling place where "even" members of the ...

  14. Peru: Army targets civilians in hostage crisis

    pipeline, were captured on April 9 in Kephasiato, a small hamlet in the Amazonian district of Echarate in ... south-central Peru. After being held for five days in remote jungle, the workers were freed unharmed on April ... The company denies this. On April 23, the administration of President Ollanta Humala authorised a big ...

  15. Avatar is real: Pandora is in Central and South America

    keeping up to their consumerist, excessive ways of life. The last pristine, virgin forests on Earth will ... be taken over by rich and powerful military armies, working on behalf of the interests of ... America passed special legislation based on the "free-trade" policy models, designed by Wall ...

  16. Beware the road to tyranny

    Opposing War and Racism, protesting the terror laws on November 28.] Dear Mr Howard, You are reported as ... US-led invasion of Iraq. In response, you said on August 10, 2003: "The 43 people comprise a mixture ... preventing legal family reunions for refugees who had come to Australia on unauthorised boat voyages led ...

  17. Grave challenges ahead for Indian left

    women's rights as two priority targets. Noting that the Congress party also backs the BJP's war on ... parliament, Jayanta Rongpi, is widely known as a CPI-ML leader. He had previously won election on the ticket ... masses on a larger scale and give a decisive blow to the forces of communal fascism." The Communist ...

  18. Democrats: still trying to keep the bastards honest

    Coalition governments. The Democrats go to this election with policies that are, on the whole, less ... Labor's harshest blows. They call for more spending on social welfare, health, education, environment, ... women and Aborigines. They are for a bill of rights, self-determination for East Timor and an end to the ...

  19. German Greens conference ends in stand-off

    numbers of women and men) took their seats on the stage — surrounded by flowering pot plants and backed by ... War that Iraqi attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa were the result of Israeli policies towards the ... SALLY LOW reports below on the April 26-28 first all-German convention of the Greens in Neumünster, ...

  20. Socialist Alliance: Left unites against Liberal-Labor consensus

    The formation of the Socialist Alliance, by eight revolutionary groups and parties on February 17, ... "non-aggression" pact between the left organisations and the Greens. The Socialist Alliance will build on that. If ... federal election, mass protests on May Day plus the continuation of industrial disputes such as in the ...

  21. Jim Percy, 1948-1992

    cancer, at his home in Sydney on October 12. He was 43 years old and had devoted 27 years of his life to ... struggle against the imperialist war in Vietnam. In 1965, as a 17-year-old secondary student in Sydney he ... joined the Vietnam Action Campaign and went on to play a major role in building the mass movement against ...

  22. A people's revolution shakes Nepal

    assembly to draft a new constitution. Through the course of the People's War, despite flexibility on ... On May 28, 2008, an elected constituent assembly declared Nepal's centuries-old semi-feudal ... the old women laugh and call across the rooftops. Kathmandu is a valley. The white caps of the ...

  23. The making of 'the apprentice's bible'

    a socialist. For Noonan, "class war" was not an empty phrase but a building-site reality that existed ... "get exasperated when he could make no impression on the workmen when trying to get them to better ... trestle), hoping that his arguments in print would have more effect. He began a series of pamphlets on how ...

  24. How Thatcher smashed the unions

    women's right to choose abortion; and thousands fought cuts to the public sector. Many people on the left ... a militant unionist and revolutionary socialist. His leadership and activism on the job resulted in him being ... branch it was sitting on", disarming the workers' movement and rendering it unable to fend off ...

  25. 500th issue solidarity messages from around the world

    mainstream has equalled her incisive reporting. Norm Dixon's analysis of the "war on ... on terrorism" and the US-backed Israeli war against the Palestinians has been exemplary. Your ... Congratulations to Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly on its 500th issue. Like other supporters of this fine ...

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