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  1. Fresh wave of revolt hits Gulf countries

    its public executions for witchcraft and prohibition on women driving, the Saudi monarchy has become ... interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom.” The corporate media ... opposition and helped turn a mass uprising into a civil war. Despite this, the saturation media coverage of ...

  2. Why the Japanese 'economic miracle' isn't real

    replaced US capital (which itself replaced British capital after the second world war) as the world's ... Japanese capital buys up overseas assets (companies, land, resources), was originally built up in Japan on ... Western workers, requires looking at the central pillars on which it rests in Japan. Each of these is part ...

  3. ALP launches dirty tricks campaign

    a 120-strong candidates' meeting hosted by the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on February 23, Greens ... not been approached by Tibetan community for council to do anything other than fly the Tibetan flag on ... has been under pressure from supporters of Israel to reverse the council's decision on the BDS. ...

  4. The epic struggle of indigenous Andean-Amazonian culture

    that the new forms of collectivism gave rise to privileged castes and wars of conquest. But in no part ... of the continent was production based on slave labour or the feudal system. For more than 10,000 ... know 4500 medicinal plants. Β•Tawantinsuyos planned agriculture based on a system of watersheds and ...

  5. Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative

    Ian Angus Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly ... http://climateandcapitalism.com. "Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per ... minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet", commented ...

  6. Under construction: the global empire

    dangerous. While billions were spent uselessly on defence during the Cold War, the upside was that no place ... Dr Susan George is well known for her extensive writing on the causes of hunger in the Third World ... 18th century, the gap between the poor and the rich nations was about 2 to 1. After World War II this ...

  7. Kellie Tranter: 'Assange and Manning remind us we have a right to know'

    just words on paper. But as citizens and as voters, it is you and I who can and must give them life. ... a war chest for independent polls, billboard signs, television ads and advertisements, and to sign ... petitions. We need to ask every sitting member of the major political parties where they stand on this issue, ...

  8. Britain: Dispelling the Thatcher myths

    companies are free to bleed customers dry. It’s said Thatcher won the Cold War. She didn’t. The idea that ... government intervened in areas of British society like none before it. It imposed draconian laws on one ... four women in the cabinet. Thatcher always forgot to mention that her political career was financed by ...

  9. ZIMBABWE: Democracy movement debates sanctions

    secret police arrest government opponents visiting a Southern African Development Community meeting on ... Zimbabwe's crisis) and the next ominous: the warning on January 9 that the military will commit ... threat of violence from war veterans responsible for occupying more than 1000 farms owned by wealthy ...

  10. ARGENTINA: 'The political debate has moved to the left'

    because of long-term unemployment. The women are the ones to call them out on the picket line, to be ... two years with the unemployed movement in Argentina. Petras is the author of numerous books on Latin ... a sector of the unemployed. The ranks of the unemployed movement include a preponderance of women ...

  11. 'Fair trade': a cover for First World protectionism

    Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and ... prohibitions on the use of child labour. Some "fair trade" advocates, for example the NGO ... Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the ...

  12. Australia’s conservatives all at sea over human rights

    With emphasis on the β€œordinary”. One of the women from the show, Raye Colbey, expressed the view at the ... is one of the poorest nations on the planet, ranking 120 out of 169 countries in the United Nation’s ... society. If they’re not whipping people into a frenzy on some radio station about β€œsome PC nonsense”, then ...

  13. From Occupy Wall St to Occupy Earth

    1% we are hearing about from Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park? What if the assault on ... the US's middle class and the assault on the environment are one and the same? Money rules It’s ... environments on public health, it was always the same: Someone got rich and someone got sick. In the struggles ...

  14. Joesef Isak: A life of struggle

    On March 24-28, Sydney will host one of the most significant gatherings of left-wing leaders from ... newspapers on the desk, which Isak would avidly read (reading matter was banned in the prison). Isak would ... in to him to read overnight. Light was no problem β€” the lights were left on overnight so the guards ...

  15. CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague 2000: Diary of the people's battle

    events. Do not take taxis on the street β€” ask the hotel or restaurant to call one for you. Avoid ... postered walls calling on Prague residents to come into the streets and express their disagreement with the ... different, with men in torn jeans and women with tattoos. Each group regards the other ironically. ...

  16. Maastricht and racism: Europe's new wall

    But, reports ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly' s FRANK NOAKES, this violence rests on an insidious state racism. ... out. During the decades following the second world war there was a shortage of labour in Europe, and ... course, racism existed in those years and was real enough for those on the receiving end, but it ...

  17. Socialism and the future

    has taken place on a worldwide scale. The main reason has been the onset of a long-lasting depressive ... that the masses still see these things differently is an objective fact that bears heavily on ... contradiction of the world situation at a time when the masses are fighting in many countries, often on a larger ...

  18. Huge US anti-racist protests herald new movement

    on Facebook put out by two women unaffiliated with any groups. As the call picked up momentum, they ... the day. "It's a definite war," Ann said. "A lot of people aren't calling it ... that, but it's a war. I'm seeking justice for my family and other people who need it." ...

  19. Letter from the US: Ruling class gets best electoral outcome

    the first cracks in the β€œwar on drugs” monolith, as Colorado and Washington state passed referenda ... capitalist class maintain an overwhelming monopoly on politics. There are only very small parties that to ... same direction, playing on racist stereotypes. Former New Hampshire govenor John Sununu said Obama was ...

  20. Opposition to Ramos reorganises

    student, women and youth organisations. On July 15 the Manila Rizal Regional Committee (MRRC) of the CPP ... Manila on July 26. Between 35,000 and 50,000 workers, students and others marched on the Congress to ... on squatter demolitions, repeal of anti-labour laws and the restoration of the right to strike in ...

  21. 'Anti-Semitism' slander ridiculous

    communities. Since the end of the Cold War, particularly since the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, this ... attacks on the left and the BDS movement in Australia are part of a broader campaign by the Coalition and ... vocally denouncing BDS actions were represented, but those visible on the street were members of the small ...

  22. Enterprise bargaining: is there an alternative?

    it, for women workers; eliminate the "youth wage"; contain no restrictions on industrial ... By Dick Nichols [This is the text of a talk presented at Politics in the Pub in Perth on January ... Liberal governments and the ACTU bring down on our heads. With increasingly few exceptions, there simply ...

  23. Assange delivers Christmas message: 'True democracy is the resistance of the people armed with the truth'

    women. And I salute journalists and publications that have covered what has and continues to happen to ... has lied us into repeated wars that have killed millions. You can’t build a sky scraper out of ... publications – your work speaks for itself, and so do your war crimes. I salute those who recognize that ...

  24. Palestinians fight apartheid

    the Nazis during the second world war to justify their own genocidal campaign against the indigenous ... South Africa was an attempt to build an anti-black, exclusively white-controlled state on African lands, ... Israel is an attempt to build an anti-Arab, exclusively Jewish-controlled state on Arab lands. ...

  25. Council defeats attempt to overturn Israel boycott

    a majority of Marrickville councillors decided on March 15 in favour of hiring a venue to a newly-formed ... chambers was packed with supporters of the council’s stand on the global Boycott, Divestment Sanctions ... councillors or on the director of community services Gary Moore who was explicitly asked. Father Dave Smith of ...

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