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Erdoğan and NATO continue Saddam’s Kurdish genocide
Turkey's war on Kurdistan Halabja Thirty-three years ago, Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party forces deployed ... Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East National liberation Marcel Cartier ... in the final days of the Iran-Iraq War. The roughly 5000 people who perished, as a result of this ...
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Bangladesh: The struggle for liberation after colonial rule
war on December 3, 1971, after Pakistan launched pre-emptive airstrikes on North India. Facing a war ... the country, which now seems poised on the edge of a civil war between two concepts. One concept ... & war National liberation Sabrina Syed Bangladesh Liberation War Islamic fundamentalism Colonisation ...
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Kabul Diaries Part 17: In this dead end!
further restrictions on women and banned music. Most barbaric, however, was the practice of public ... these rights to Afghan women on a plate. Afghan women fought against all odds to achieve their rights. ... Education Feminism International solidarity Middle East Women Yasmeen Afghan Kabul Diaries ...
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Lessons from the siege of Kobane
Democracy Imperialism & war International solidarity John Tully Kobane Democratic Kurdish ... Parliament on November 8. The event was organised by the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre (NSW) and Rojava ... translate that from the Kurdish it means “Women, Life and Freedom”. It’s a remarkably simple sounding ...
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Australia talks but who's listening?
Anti-racism Climate crisis Democracy Economy Environment Far right Healthcare Housing Women Isaac ... National Survey was released on June 21 with a special TV event hosted by journalist Annabel Crabb and ... survey results are interesting in so far as they provide a snapshot of opinion on some important (and ...
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Peace conference to launch inquiry into Australia’s growing militarism
Canberra-based choir, A Chorus of Women, will perform during a twilight lantern parade on November 23. The events ... Climate crisis Democracy Imperialism & war Bevan Ramsden Independent and Peaceful Australia ... Australian militarism on First Nations peoples and broader society. IPAN comprises community groups, trade ...
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West Papua activists call on Australia to stop joint exercises with the Indonesian military
Papua's fate hangs on every word Jakarta is turning West Papuans into ‘terrorists’ to justify waging a war ... Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war Indigenous International solidarity Refugees & ... women, 338 minors and 17 infants among IDPs originating from the Aifat Selatan District alone. As at ...
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Video: The Pakistani state and the return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
Peter Boyle Farooq Tariq Imperialism & war War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Afghanistan Pakistan ... interview was conducted on September 4. Afghanistan: Women walk for democracy against fascist Taliban Video: ... A left perspective on the West’s defeat in Afghanistan ...
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Never forget: SIEV-X memorial unveiled
Anti-racism Imperialism & war Refugees & migrants Niko Leka SIEV-X Tampa NSW councils and ... 21 years ago. Hunter Asylum Seeker Advocacy organised a ceremony on October 22. In that disaster 146 ... children, 142 women and 65 men drowned. About a dozen survivors made it to Australia, and about 30 were ...
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10 new albums that aim to change the world in 2023
continued to wage war on Ukraine. On it, they sing: “Bombs are falling again, can you understand? It's ... borders and wars. On the opening track, "Sold Everything", they holler: "Well, they sold ... world.” LISTEN>>> margo_price_-_strays.jpg 5. MARGO PRICE- STRAYS On January 23, women marched ...
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Three budget cuts we should support
Climate crisis Economy Energy Imperialism & war Peter Boyle Stage 3 tax cuts budget AUKUS ... time. But on the eve of the first budget to be delivered by the Anthony Albanese Labor government, there ... are three cuts we should support. 1. $11.6 billion a year (and rising) wasted on fossil fuel subsidies ...
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International Women's Strike on March 8 marks 'start of a new international feminist movement’
abridged from International Women Strike USA. *** The International Women’s Strike on March 8 is an ... International Women's Strike Below is the platform of the International Women’s Strike US. It is slightly ... international day of action, planned and organised by women in more than 30 different countries. In the spirit ...
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Vale Juan Jose (John) Garcia, 1940–2023
the heady days of the late 1970s that followed massive anti-war protests, the new Gough Whitlam ... Queensland Institute of Technology. Members of Aboriginal Housing wanted an Aboriginal community school on ... days later he was arrested by the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government on trumped up charges of “conspiring ...
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Don’t mourn militarist Shinzo Abe
Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war Middle East Rupen Savoulian militarisation Japanese ... war crimes Israeli war crimes ultranationalism No doubt the news about the assassination of former ... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 sent shockwaves throughout the world. The longest-serving ...
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Turkish invasion threatens iconic women's village in Rojava
(AANES) The women’s cooperative village of Jinwar was opened on November 25, 2017, the International Day ... organisation, now known as Kongreya Star, as a refuge for women fleeing war and patriarchy. Jinwar was built by ... women on ecologically sustainable principles and has been such a success, that the international ...
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Global movement to #StopHazaraGenocide erupts
protest in Sydney. Photo: Peter Boyle Afghanistan: Hazara women protest attacks on students in Kabul Three ... Anti-racism Imperialism & war International solidarity Refugees & migrants Amir Haidari ... Hazara people in Afghanistan on October 8. This wave of the movement developed in response to an attack ...
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Rojava Revolution- seven years on
Middle East Dave Holmes Turkey's war on Afrin Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Syrian ... women are empowered to enjoy their full human rights and which is based on grassroots democracy and ... Democratic Forces (SDF) July 19 marked the seventh anniversary of northern Syria’s Rojava Revolution. On that ...
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Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant workers issue urgent plea for support
psychological pressure exerted on ZNPP staff, especially women. The union has received support from the European ... facilities targeted in Russia's war on Ukraine Ukraine nuclear fears partly fuelled by Australian ... Energy Europe Imperialism & war Workers & unions Federico Fuentes Ukraine-Russia war ...
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The radical achievements of the New Theatre
Lisa Milner Interventions, 2022, 632 pp., $40 Where in the history of Australian theatre have women ... inception. As Lisa Milner and Cathy Brigden mention in their chapter, the role of women is absent from the ... theatre chapter in The Encyclopaedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia. This will ...
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Fighting for women's liberation in Trump's America-- interview with International Women's Strike USA organiser
garment workers. In 1917, demonstrations by women workers on IWD in Russia sparked the revolution that ... depoliticised. However, this year a range of attacks on women around the world has led to the call for ... administration’s attacks on women’s rights was met on January 21 with huge Women’s Marches across the US — the ...
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Public Forum: A left perspective on the West’s defeat in Afghanistan
attacks, even though the Afghan people were not responsible. After nearly 20 years of war, the deaths of ... disaster was allowed to go on for so long. Australian governments were willing participants. Now, the ... women – targets of the Taliban. Come along to this public forum hosted by 鶹ӳ and Socialist ...
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Radicals remember the 1960s
Books & music History Imperialism & war International solidarity Socialism Women Workers ... performing on the platform of the May 1970, 100,000-strong Vietnam War Moratorium march in Melbourne. In late ... 4 Climate) are speaking out on the climate crisis, just as the 1960s students did against the Vietnam War ...
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Kabul Diaries Part 14: ‘Our privacy is now subjected to Taliban vigilantes’
Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East Women Yasmeen Afghan Taliban Kabul ... be. It’s usually a fun filled night for women.] "We agreed on the terms that it would be ... Afghan women in New York City on September 25. Read the full Kabul Diaries series Afghanistan: ...
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Women take to the streets on Reclaim the Night
action cheered the marchers on, and the night ended with a concert of women artists, at which messages of ... focused on the need for an active movement which does not tolerate abuses of women's rights. From ... abortion on demand; self-determination for indigenous women; reform of the legal system which currently ...
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Irish women on remand in Britain
justice"- punishment before conviction. Martina Shanahan, for instance, spent 13 months on remand before she ... Risley prison on August 7, 1988: "I think any prisoner will tell you that the most traumatic time is ... Nobody told me I was going to be on my own all the time. "The first day I thought I was just on my ...