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The Pope And The Poor
allied with Reagan in the fight against Sandinista Nicaragua, it condemned Bush's Gulf War; defender ... of human rights against dictatorships, it is trying to impose a ban on abortion in Poland, against ... power within the church. This is shown by his particular virulence on matters of sexual morality and in ...
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Solidarity closes government's umbrella
investors are complemented by taxes on state enterprises that keep wage rises to 60% of the rate of ... individuals and as a group. "Now we have decided to look after the basic interests of people on the ... dates back to before the second world war. Unionists at PILMET explained that in their factory and ...
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What would a liveable city look like?
beings. However, on the ground and actually living and working in this wonder, things are quite different: ... those of the mass of working people who live and toil in them. Today the destructive effect on the ... life-threatening pollution and a vast network of roads and car parks that scar the urban landscape. People live on ...
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Beastie Boys Adam Yauch β maker of music that broke the rules
modern music, however, is immense. After Yauch's death from cancer at the age of 47 on May 4, ... giving to music the diversity that it claims today. βI'm proof of that. They helped me get put on ... , and I was on their first tour...β The Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore punk group. Yauch, aged ...
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Sports for a few
the reach of most poor people. A recent survey in England has shown that emphasis on competitive ... was happy to be there on behalf of Speedo, the swimwear manufacturing company, and other sponsors. ... countries with high gross domestic product (GDP) or totalitarian countries are on top. But India, with all ...
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Cuban revolutionary's case for international socialism
role of peasants, the landless, Indigenous peoples, women, environmentalists and others. But his ... 1989-91. This led to a "strengthening of imperialist power, interference, and intervention on a world ... two main factors that led to the collapse. On the economic front, he quotes Panamanian theorist Nils ...
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Reinventing the Labor Party
work forces, the rapid influx of women into paid employment and the massive increase in participation ... Economic rationalism is a political project of the ruling class to put the burden of change on the working ... place at present is grotesque exaggeration. Technological change, on its own, never has and never will ...
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'Globalisation' and the capitalist austerity drive
corporations is increasingly directed toward branches of industry with high levels of spending on fixed ... same report matter-of-factly states: "Inequalities between men and women, between ethnic groups, ... the early 19th century up to the eve of World War I (exports grew from 3% of world industrial output ...
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Socialism or neo-liberalism?
the first time since the end of World War II, unemployment is rising in the bureaucratised ... concrete impact of pseudo-liberal β in reality neo-conservative β economic policies on world developments. ... interest payments on the steeply rising debt, belongs in that category. The neo-conservatives say that they ...
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Who can claim that we have not killed them?
Kate Durham gave the following speech to an August 27 Sydney meeting on refugees and detention. ... minister, is on the deck of the MV Tampa, clasping hands with its captain Arne Rinnan and brimming with one ... and skills in the countryside. "Refugees are often the best and brightest, bring them on ...
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The Liberals' vendetta against union
women". l "The removal of restrictions on working hours will make it easier for parents to blend ... know what you've got 'til its gone", which has taken on a new significance in the face ... the Liberals of federal government. "Howard must part with Kennett on IR law" was the ...
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Cuba's battle of ideas
consciousness, that is to say, a conviction that hundreds of millions and billions of people on this planet will ... hardships by paddling to the US on homemade rafts; millions confronted the crisis with dignity and ... neighbourhood, workplace and study centre. The revolution's birth On January 1, 1959, the Cuban people β led ...
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East Timorese mobilise for freedom
was the degree of unity on the fundamental issues. I never got a sense that civil war is a likely ... Indonesia so determined to hang on to East Timor when many estimate that the cost of holding it is greater ... probably fallacious. From our figures, the real cost to the Indonesian economy of hanging on to East Timor ...
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Climate summit 2010: Lessons for the climate movement
capacity. A lot has happened since the last summit: the dominance of the debate on the government's ... poor? There is a strange dichotomy in the climate debate. On the one hand, international aid agencies ... articulate its consequences. On other hand, the welfare lobby that claims to advocate on behalf of ...
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With the Timorese guerillas: 'Independence or death!'
I've spent weeks walking in the villages, sitting on buses chatting to women, walking with the children ... walls and the faces of three standing men, a woman sitting on a chair and four children sitting in front ... common here in East Timor, where you can never be completely sure which side your acquaintance is on ...
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INDIA: Communists discuss resistance to 'communal fascism'
privatisation of state industries and government services and removing restrictions on imports of manufactured ... welcoming the 750 congress delegates as they arrived by train on November 25. Armed police provided congress ... Maoist-anarchist Peoples War Group guerrilla bands, which have murdered several prominent CPI (ML) members in Bihar ...
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'Be a rebel youth for life!'
the Coalition's Hansonite regime, against sexism, especially the aggressive push to get women ... back into the home as mothers and housewives; against war and militarism (John Howard wants to throw ... young rebels can counter the capitalist assault on their ideals is to remain politically active, not be ...
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Lessons of the 1968 revolt
with the French education system. In the years after World War II, there had been a big increase in the ... widespread discontent, it was opposition to the imperialist war against the Vietnamese revolution that was ... McConville gave a vivid description of the role of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the development of ...
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The government's jobs plan fraud
women workers back into the home, after they had maintained war production. The latest Australian Bureau ... of Statistics data on "Persons not in the labour force" tell us that there were 765,100 ... job growth depends on the rate of growth of production or output. In a capitalist economy spending on ...
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Bitter Palestinian anger at detainee death in Israeli jail
Affairs spokesman Hassan Abed Rabo. On February 25, the Palestinians Women's Union issued a statement ... a funeral procession on February 25 in the West Bank village of Saeer for 30-year-old Arafat Jaradat, who ... died while in Israeli detention. Jaradat's death on February 23 in Megiddo Prison came less than ...
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DSP congress: globalising resistance to capitalism
In the congress report on The international political situation: austerity and war, ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly ... the determination of the protesters and the participation of trade unions, albeit on a nationalist ... this movement in world and Australian politics, and to vote on proposals to help develop this movement. ...
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Sharing the work or sharing the poverty?
are already on part-time and most of these are hired on a casual basis. These are mostly women on ... John Dawkins in his budget speech on August 17. However, the budget did little to tackle the problem ... businesses to expand production on a world-competitive basis". The Keating government leaves the ...
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Letter from the US: Supreme Court rules step forwards, leap backwards
joyous ceremonies and celebrations. Gay Pride demonstrations in California and other states on June 30 ... the tide has turned. Now it is the anti-gay bigots who are on the defensive. As it stands now, there ... men and womenβ. In fact, they are only βwiseβ in the best interests of the ruling class. They do, ...
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Not mercy, but justice
on Citizenship. In principle, the government's intentions are positive. But from the various ... statements the government has made on the question, there are a number of basic issues that need to first be ... countries), delegates from various mass organisations (labour, farmers', women's, youth, academic, ...
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South Korean Marxists regroup
colonialists. After US imperialism crushed the 1945 revolution south of the 38th parallel, during the Korean War ... US-backed autocrats, keen on preventing another revolution, tightly monitored and controlled foreign travel ... Chun sent tanks into Kwangju to massacre hundreds of men, women and children. In the wake of the ...