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  1. Socialist candidate: 'System change urgently needed'

    incensed by the Iraq war in 1991 and I came across Direct Action and then ΒιΆΉΣ³»­. When I was a young ... I went to Cuba later on, inspired by the prospect of revolution in Latin America and across the world. ... and against the militarization and threat of war, including the threat posed by AUKUS and nuclear ...

  2. Vietnam launches action plan for women

    the war of national liberation, first against French, then US imperialism, women worked at every level ... international journal, and has a women's publishing house and its own programs on radio and television. The ... the organisation's education program: "At first we focused our education on women only. But ...

  3. Women of conscience

    Gulf War. Anyone interested in joining the Women's Network can ring Amnesty on (02) 281 4188 or ... International public meeting on March 20 to hear accounts of women's social and political struggles around ... Women of conscience By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY β€” About 80 people turned out to an Amnesty ...

  4. Vale Joyce Stevens: fighter for women’s liberation

    Eureka Youth League. At that time, the League's major focus was on supporting the war effort to, as ... Feminism Judy Mundey Obituary Joyce Stevens was born on January 6, 1928 and was 87 when she died ... on May 6. She was the third child in a family of four children, with two older brothers and a younger ...

  5. Tackling the cost-of-living crisis by increasing it?

    close eye on inflation, its aim being to keep it in the target range of 2–3% a year. When it sees it ... external price shocks such as wars, pandemics or oil prices,Β little canΒ be done to address the causes. The ... several wars are happening. The data also shows that there is not sustained demand inflation. Despite ...

  6. The fight to win the vote for women

    politics of working-class women β€” on the barricades, in riots and in revolutions. As the British historian ... imprescriptible and inalienable rights”. On August 26, 1789, the French National Assembly voted for a β€œDeclaration ... resistance to oppression”. In 1791, the Duc de la Rochelle’s Committee on Mendicancy declared the β€œright to ...

  7. Women march to reclaim the night

    violence, women and children again took to the streets on October 31 to Reclaim the Night, which is an ... speaking on behalf of the Kungka Tjuta women campaigning against the proposed nuclear dump in the north of ... women who rallied in Newcastle on the issue of sexual assault and rape being used as weapons against ...

  8. IRAQ: Women suffer colonial violence

    down" β€” US Secretary of State Colin Powell, told Iraqi women on March 8, International Women's Day. ... women and girls has sharply increased in Iraq compared to the time before last year's war ... heinous crimes against Iraqi women and Iraqi prisoners of war are not the acts of a " few bad ...

  9. PHILIPPINES: Globalisation worse for women

    "benefits" to women, participants from 13 countries at the Asian Workshop on Women and Globalisation arrived ... and in the midst of the US "war on terrorism", it was a very timely gathering. Gigi ... informal sector on women's employment and displacement and the ways in which the neo-liberal ...

  10. Women of the world unite!

    action. On February 28, 1907, women socialists in the United States organised huge demonstrations and ... liberation of women". In Petrograd, on March 8, 1917, women defied the law and came boldly onto the ... Women of the world unite! Since its beginnings, IWD has been a day of unity, solidarity and ...

  11. US intervention no help to Afghan women

    she travels around the world speaking out on behalf of Afghan women and their rights. While in Sydney, ... Faryal addressed a July 31 vigil on the steps of Sydney Town Hall organised by Women in Black, an ... international network of women opposed to war and militarism. That evening Faryal spoke about the situation ...

  12. A woman's place is in the struggle: Afghan women win recognition of legal equality

    organisations have indicated concern that the constitution will have little impact on the real lives of women ... . Afghanistan is still gripped by war, and kidnapping and sexual violence against women and girls is rampant. An ... compliance. Only 3% of total foreign aid sent to Afghanistan since the US launched its war on the country in ...

  13. Marilyn French returns to the wars

    to dare to do the same. At 229 pages, The war against women (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 1992) is a much ... on women fighting back. If it's done well, or if you are among the first to do it, taking the ... book. Most of what she says in The War Against Women has already been said more engagingly elsewhere. ...

  14. and ain't I a women: A new generation of consumers

    children's vulnerability, further clawing down the age at which women are judged purely on their appearance. ... knowing what they're protesting about if they join marches against the war on Iraq or mandatory ... A furore has broken out in mainstream papers and on radio talk-back programs about the a line of ...

  15. The hidden struggle for women’s footy

    Books & music Media Sports Feminism Phil Shannon Play On! The Hidden History of Women ... (sport historian) in Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football. More than 100 ... against sport being played on Sundays, one of the few timeslots available for women to fit regular ...

  16. AdiΓ³s Diego Maradona: The football god who played on the side of the poor

    footballer will rage on, but Diego Armando Maradona, who passed away on November 25 aged 60, will almost ... around the world, as the football god who played on the side of the poor. As a child growing up in ... reality. But to Maradona it was much more than this. Given a football on his third birthday, Maradona ...

  17. Women's rights violated in Middle East

    Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, women in the Middle East are paying a heavy price for ... "In wars and conflicts, women are killed, taken hostage, raped and driven from their homes. In peace, ... Women's rights violated in Middle East By Kim Linden Only weeks before the United Nations ...

  18. Four women versus British Aerospace &&

    of four women who go on trial in Liverpool next week. They are Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid, Andrea ... In a Liverpool court on July 30, four members of the British Ploughshares organisation were ... malfeasant effect on the fabric of a single society, the Indonesian genocide in East Timor is arguably the ...

  19. ... and ain't i a woman?: The world cop and Afghan women

    Rights Day, including having two Afghan women there who talked to the press about what was going on... it ... State Department outlines the living conditions imposed on women since the Taliban gained control of ... in a fact sheet released by the senior coordinator, international women's issues, on March 10, ...

  20. International Women's Day's hidden radical history

    the trials of war broke the patience of the women workers and peasants. In Leningrad on March 8, women ... Resistance! On average, women receive only two-thirds of the wages of men. Accessible child-care ... violence in their homes and on the streets. Women of colour still experience racism. Women still do not ...

  21. Dare to Struggle Film Festival celebrates radical action

    Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, (about the Coalition government's war on construction workers); Song ... to Struggle Film Festival (DTSFF) was successfully held in Sydney on April 22β€’23. More than 50 films ... on a variety of people's campaigns were shown in four sessions at Trades Hall and the NSW ...

  22. A life-long fighter for women's equality

    food prices, women's health and world peace. It was tough, isolated going in the Cold War freeze ... Factory women into the union in Melbourne in the 1930s, most were fatalistic about their below-dole wage ... war and social injustice and who was a member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). Boyanton ...

  23. Acid, sex and brutality in London and Beijing

    calls β€œrevolutionary wives”. These are imaginative biographical novels drawing on the lives of women who ... playing out similar psychological dramas, with terrible effects on those around them. Iris and Eva in ... penis early on. This time it is an LSD-drenched hippie orgy in London. It is a cheap way of drawing in ...

  24. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Malloch raises some of the very myths which we need to challenge head-on if women are to be freed from the ... "correct" weight for a particular height. Even if every women took on a more healthy lifestyle β€” ate healthy ... disease and stroke which were based on male subjects. Studies of women released some time later showed ...

  25. Women organising separately

    attempts to wind back women's rights. Women's officers and women's rooms on campuses were ... "safe" places for women on campus. Rather, the real value of these facilities is that they are avenues ... facilities cannot be assured and real equality for women on campus can never be won. The argument put forward ...

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