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  1. Nicaragua in crisis

    side could mean war. After a relatively calm day on August 21, when the rebels in Managua agreed to ... a frightening chain of events which brought Nicaragua, once again, to the verge of civil war. Although ... QuilalΓ­ on August 19, in an effort to convince the 3-80 Northern Front, a group of recontras, to accept ...

  2. Local council to boycott Israel

    Middle East Gadigal Country/Sydney On December 14 Marrickville Council adopted a resolution moved ... campaign and report back on any links the Council has with organisations or companies that support or ... links and imposing a boycott on any future such links or goods purchases. 2. Marrickville Council ...

  3. A guide to the Wall Street meltdown

    financial crisis based on what they read in mainstream newspapers. These papers typically fence off business ... anchors rarely mentioned the economy except to give stock market reports or figures on economic growth. ... century, capitalist enterprises had become too big to rely simply on their own profits to finance ...

  4. Australian government continues Israeli love affair

    on Israel/Palestine. Before our politicians even warmed their seats in the new parliamentary ... sittings, PM Kevin Rudd announced that he will lead a parliamentary motion to honour Israel on March 12 ... government on the multiple human rights abuses being perpetrated by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian ...

  5. Egypt rocked by class struggle, food crisis

    activists relied heavily on the social network website Facebook and mobile text messages to publicise the ... arrests and accusing organisers of plotting riots and violence. On April 6, Egyptians woke up to find that ... resistance in the central Nile Delta, things unfolded in a very different way. On the morning of the 6th, all ...

  6. 'A nation hostile to its foundations'

    government's misinformation about "people-smugglers". He notes that during the second world war ... as long as there is a demand for their services: "It is the restrictions imposed on legal ... There are enormous backlogs in processing claims. It takes, on average, 18 months for an ...

  7. Timor: 'We need to mobilise people's power'

    Women and a Socialist Study Centre. They are all at the early stages of development, although many ... "but we would have preferred that the movement reject the UN agreement on May 5 and then apply pressure ... are other differences too, such as on people's power as a central tactic. The PST has helped form ...

  8. Former CIA agent tells: How US infiltrates 'civil society' to overthrow governments

    actions on behalf of a foreign power that has waged a 44-year war of varying degrees of intensity against ... denunciations that came through my mail, it was easy to see how enemies of the revolution had seized on those ... on the bandwagon of condemnation treating the two issues as one. With respect to the imprisonment of ...

  9. Protest against seven years of NT intervention

    into Mutijulu and they declared war on our people. Thanks to John Pilger’s film Utopia which exposed ... date, a protest was held outside Alice Springs courthouse on June 21, demanding an end to the ... properly our way.” Maurice Ryan, Chair of CLC, said: β€œI was on the basics card for 5 years β€” I always wear ...

  10. Latin America: 'Don't mess with us'

    have been uncovered, is of open civil war β€” where only on the graves of tens of thousands of determined ... Federico Fuentes Caracas Arriving at the Palacio Moneda in Santiago, Chile, on September 14, where ... integration Chavez's words were backed by the action on September 11 when his government expelled the US ...

  11. Their globalisation and ours

    Doctrine" was called on to justify British extermination of India's textile industry. It's to the ... "winners" like Bill Gates and George Soros because there are "losers" β€” like young women in ... ever-declining terms of trade for the South and increasing dependence on inflows of volatile (mainly First World) ...

  12. Nepali communists plan defeat for Congress

    CPN-UML. Pradip Nepal said that his party had expected to win government in May on a wave of ... campaign. "Congress was able to play on fears of 'instability', because all governments since ... round of balloting, had a huge impact on the party's election campaign. The party stopped ...

  13. S11 a 'watershed' for unions

    rights rally, on September 12, would join protesters outside Crown Casino. But Hubbard was adamant that ... broad progressive forces working constructively together, when we focus on the points that unite us ... divided views on how to advance the question. Given all of that, the important part is to highlight that ...

  14. ANC leader: 'Violence is state sponsored'

    a meeting of ANC supporters on August 5. He told the gathering that the terrible violence sweeping the ... to set a date for South Africa's first non-racial election. Agreement has been reached on broad ... principles which would underpin the new constitution. There is also agreement on the establishment of the ...

  15. New Orleans 2006: music, hope and love in the ruins

    evacuees are facing imminent eviction from their apartments because FEMA has decided to renege on promised ... T-shirts on sale in the Bourbon street shops feature big arrows pointing outwards from New Orleans: ... with the NOLA fleur de lis and emblazoned "Make Levees, Not War!" We parted with Johnny James ...

  16. United States: BP’s β€˜cure’ is killing in the Gulf

    aren’t good. β€œMany have double bonds, and many are on the EPA’s [Environmental Protection Agency] danger ... list. This is an unprecedented environmental catastrophe.” Commercial fisher and Vietnam War veteran ... dispersants. β€œI was with my friend Albert, and we were both slammed with exposure”, Matsler said on August 5. ...

  17. Nepal: The people resist elite coup

    correspondent in Kathmandu, Ben Peterson, said on the struggle that has erupted in Nepal. "This is ... was commenting on the large number of daily demonstrations across the country to demand respect for ... coalition government. The UCPN-M, which had led the coalition government until its members walked out on May ...

  18. TURKEY: Behind the EU window dressing

    β€” for example it operates on Leninist democratic centralist principles β€” but it also differs in many ... emphasis on the Kurdish question β€” which distinguishes us from other parties on the socialist left in ... broadcasts on state TV of around one hour per week. These are mainly nature documentaries β€” nothing about the ...

  19. Costello's budget: bribes, crumbs and deception

    development" of a new Magna model, but the GST on company cars was removed. Industry estimates that this will ... claims it's not immediately on the table. However, the budget's main fire was aimed squarely at ... wealthier seniors. Before the budget, all men over 65 and women over 61, were entitled to a tax-free ...

  20. UNITED STATES: Racism and the stolen vote

    a total of 9,904." A Washington Post story on December 3 reported that one out of three black voters ... aren't allowed to vote. No proof was ever provided on who was or was not a felon. The aim was to get ... slaveholding states and those based primarily on farming and wage exploitation of working people. The original ...

  21. Thousands rally for a free East Timor

    By Arun Pradhan Thousands of people rallied across Australia on November 12 to commemorate the ... Action). The rally concluded with a message from Xanana Gusmao, who said, "The struggle continues on ... In Darwin, Tom Kelly reports that activities commemorating the massacre began at 8am on Friday with ...

  22. Castro: the Third World must take the helm

    conference on April 12. Never before has humanity had such a formidable scientific and technological ... and poverty, development and underdevelopment. We are all passengers on the same vessel, this planet ... on which we all live. Trifling minorities are travelling in luxurious cabins furnished with the ...

  23. Amnesty slams Australia's human rights abuses

    part of governments to on the one hand embrace NGOs, to say "look at these fine men and women ... community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his ... and we knew that behind the dismantling of this most graphic symbol lay the end of the Cold War. With ...

  24. Subverting Australia's labour movement

    reason the Foundation was formed". It went on: "To a man [no women here] the union officials ... Government. In the early 1980s, I was researching material on the Australian labour movement. It was soon ... reported that some of them even supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In an ABC interview in 1982, one ...

  25. Bertolt Brecht: the man who never was

    by Dave Riley As the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, word went out that this action drew on the ... achievement". But much of the enthusiasm extended to his work inevitably catches on a snag β€” Brecht was ... political allegiance has annoyed the critics no end. Some, like John Willet β€” the author of many books on ...

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