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  1. IRAQ: US launches mass slaughter in Fallujah

    Doug Lorimer On November 8, the US military launched its long-anticipated second attempt to ... helicopters β€” was preceded by weeks of nightly air strikes on residential buildings, restaurants and mosques. ... reported that hundreds of residents, most of them women, children and elderly men, were being killed by US ...

  2. Pilbara: Australia's longest strike

    referred to as the "Blackfellas' Eureka". It started on May 1, 1946, and lasted until 1949, ... making it the longest strike in Australia's history. The Aboriginal strikers, who worked on dozens ... floors, lighting, sanitation, furniture or cooking facilities. On some stations, Aboriginal workers were ...

  3. ZIMBABWE: Mugabe's poll fraud

    BY NORM DIXON On March 13, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was officially pronounced the winner ... process favours Mugabe", Hondora told the United Nations news service on March 11. The Zimbabwe ... observers and the MDC polling agents by war veterans renders the election outcome null and void. We wish to ...

  4. Why is an Israeli soldier worth more than a Palestinian child?

    bars away from their family and friends. The thousands of children, women and men still captivated ... on their child’s whereabouts, praying that their child wouldn’t be tortured β€” too much. Those are the ... were arrested back in 1991. They were among the first 477 prisoners of war to be released in exchange ...

  5. 'We can give hope to people'

    with their war on Iraq, just a year after they destroyed Afghanistan. The world now desperately needs ... with hands and sticks, and making us stand on cement in the hot sun for more than 12 hours. Sometimes ... arrested again on February 2, 1997. Β“In January, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army took control of ...

  6. Spot the armed and dangerous fundamentalists

    (BATF) and the FBI. The events in 1993 ended in the death of 76 women, men and children who were members ... law who reviewed the Justice Department's report on Waco. He tells an interviewer: "When ... the initial raid. Far from planning a raid on a dangerous group stockpiling weapons, the BATF is ...

  7. Disability is not a protection against villainy

    the efforts wasted on gaining sectional advantage deflect the citizenry from the major struggle to ... world war, a range of benefits were introduced to cover short-term unemployment, sickness and other ... workers, understanding the disproportionate rewards which the rich got through tax subsidies on ...

  8. No peace without equality

    books on the Middle East and literature. This book is a collection of articles written from 1993 to 1995 ... New World Order promoted by the US establishment following the Gulf War of 1991. Rather than the ... to create "facts on the ground" has been the construction of bypass roads which link ...

  9. New movement seeks to revive Pakistani left

    conference here on May 3-4 to discuss the possibility of a new left-wing party. The conference decided to ... Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women, Marxist Workers Tendency Sri ... conflict, which could lead to a civil war-like situation. The speakers also agreed that the present ...

  10. Leader of the way into the wasteland

    non-revolutionary and moderate protector of the working class. Taft was on the most right-wing edge of this process, ... at Essendon aerodrome during the war, before working full time for the party from 1944. From this ... point on, Taft began to consider the need to de-Stalinise the ideology (uncritical support of Soviet ...

  11. How Cambodian 'news' is created

    married local women, and who have been serving in village militias. While it takes considerable stretching ... β€” the misplaced view that wars are and should be "clean" and the human elements able to be ... stringers, usually writing for commission only or on very modest stipends. As well, correspondents for major ...

  12. Letter from the US: What’s behind the Tea Party’s rise?

    revolution. The present Tea Party emerged on the scene after Obama’s election in 2008, in the midst of the ... revolution in the US took place over two revolutions 70 years apart. The first was the War of Independence ... Southern states. The second revolution was the Civil War and its aftermath in Radical Reconstruction, which ...

  13. Nobel peace laureates tell HRW: 'Close your revolving door to the US government'

    its civil war. However, HRW remained silent on the clear violation of international law constituted by ... Kenneth Roth on behalf of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Adolfo Perez Esquivel and Mairead Maguire; former UN ... Assistant Secretary General Hans von Sponeck; current UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the ...

  14. Why celebrate Eureka?

    bayonets. By 5pm, men, women and children had gathered at their usual meeting place on Bakery Hill and heard ... transportation to the Australian goldfields. In a letter to his friend Karl Marx on September 23, 1851, Friedrich ... appeared to have no impact on the grubby diggers that began to appear, drunk and rich, in previously ...

  15. US widens its lead over rivals

    expansion that followed World War II. In the first generalised recession in 1974-75 and in the years ... businesses and utilities, and an intensification of the austerity drive, centred on suppressing wage demands ... competition While the traditional post-World War II US economic locomotive may not be running today, the US ...

  16. France: Huge march blasts austerity, demands democratic renewal

    dividends); expansion of citizens’ marches across regional France on June 1-2; a June 9 women’s march against ... a French Socialist Party (PS) government took place in Paris on May 5. To the stirring sounds of the ... protest anthem β€œOn Lache Rien” (β€œWe Don’t Give In”), up to 180,000 workers, pensioners, unemployed and ...

  17. Julian Burnside: β€˜Bradley Manning might just as well be in Guantanamo Bay’

    and freedom” took place on March 16 at the Sydney Town Hall. More than 2000 people attended. The event ... was staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City ... that he is receiving. And this is a country which was founded on the principles and ideals of the rule ...

  18. Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels

    change,” Chuck Collins wrote at Common Dreams on September 14. On September 13, people across world took to ... supporters worldwide are joining together to call on US President Barack Obama to cancel the pipeline's ... permits once and for all”. β€œMeanwhile, on the ground, tribal members and their allies continued to put ...

  19. Revolutionary redemption, lessons for activists: Memoir looks at US SWP experience

    after World War II, was able to pass the torch on to the new generation.node/53539 "The older ... the story of an organization that had a generally unacknowledged yet not insignificant impact on the ... activists will be looking for explanations of what went on before, in struggles of the past, from which ...

  20. Japan: Anti-nuclear movement gears up

    Environment Alexander Brown On March 20, 1500 people marched in Tokyo opposing nuclear power in ... States military at the end of World War II, anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan have struggled against the ... established on August 6. Hydrogen bomb tests carried out by the US in the Marshall Islands in March 1954 ...

  21. Why be a Leninist?

    section on "Nineteenth Century European History". Lenin upset quite a few of these types when he ... socialists should not focus on the conflict between the major classes but instead on the conflict between ... of the state and society. Others argue that while revolution is still their objective, it is not on ...

  22. Mandatory detention is torture

    BY SARAH STEPHEN On July 24, the Australian government voted against the adoption of an optional ... debate, an optional protocol was adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council on July 24 that establishes ... Assembly later this year, before being opened for ratification by individual countries. The vote on the ...

  23. Global 'boycott Israel' campaign grows

    Israel accountable for its actions, on July 9, 2005, a large section of Palestinian civil society called ... support of Israel’s oppression and war crimes. The Strauss Group, parent company of the Max Brenner ... have been accused of very serious war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, including during Operation Cast ...

  24. Bolivia: Indigenous government defies US-backed fascists

    supposedly refuse to collaborate in the "war on drugs". Oppressed take the offensive The government ... Morales as a "civil coup". This campaign of terror, centred on the four resource-rich eastern ... racist armed youth gangs, such as the Santa Cruz Youth Union (UJC). The worst violence occurred on ...

  25. Marxism 2000 conference: confident in the future of socialism

    20th, and whose century will the 21st be? As the millennium draws to a close, we should reflect on this. ... with bombs and brutal blockades or raining destruction on Serbia from a great height, free from ... They're relishing further assaults on the huge Chinese market as China's government proceeds apace ...

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