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  1. Oxfam: Pandemic exposes systemic inequality

    by the French government after World War II when it applied a 100% tax rate on excessive wartime ... tax to those on β€œexcessive incomes” during the war, with an average tax of 81% applied to top earners ... death of at least one person every four seconds. β€’Β 252 men have more wealth than all 1 billion women and ...

  2. Employment and care crisis hits women

    usually means it falls on women. People who are wealthy can pay for caring services but for the majority ... responsibilities for young children and the elderly places huge pressures on women to juggle work and caring. ... education, health and childcare provision impact back on the family unit, predominantly women, to fill the ...

  3. Women and the Russian Revolution

    the Bolshevik government's revolutionary program on women's rights went and the struggle it ... stability; the women's groups which, while disparate, generally opposed the code on moral grounds; the ... Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 By Wendy Z. ...

  4. Under Liberal or Labor: Women's right to work under attack

    unqualified as it was in the 1950s, when women had to be forced out of the jobs they assumed during World War ... These cuts are having an impact on women's options. A study done in Sydney's inner-west ... dropped significantly. For many women, working full time and relying on professional child-care has become ...

  5. Shift to market brings disaster for Russian women

    crisis are women. The new situation is also affecting birth rates; for the first time in the post-war ... By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW β€” How did women live in the USSR when perestroika was in the future, ... when their shift ended. But when huge numbers of women arrived home from their jobs, their work began ...

  6. India: 'Defend women’s right to freedom without fear!'

    attitudes and hostility to women’s freedom and rights, head on, on a war footing. When denial of justice in ... imposing patriarchal discipline on women. Women who defy such discipline are punished for their temerity by ... imposed on women: curfews in college hostels are the most common instance, followed by dress codes, bans ...

  7. 'Time' exploits victim to promote war

    Imperialism & war Feminism Tony Iltis Malalai Joya The cover of the August 9 edition edition ... caught up with her after she ran away, and took a knife to her on his own; village elders later approved, ... similar to those of countless women in Afghanistan today, into a portent of things to come for all women ...

  8. US abortion campaign: Victories for women

    the women's movement will have to keep the pro-choice campaign on the boil. The anti-abortionist ... clinics are on a downward trend. The significant mobilisations of the women's movement since 1989 ... Few clinics perform second trimester abortions. For poor women on Medicaid and Medicare, only in cases ...

  9. Egypt and the global fight for women’s rights

    International Women’s Day in Cairo, Egypt β€” flowing on from the inspirational revolution that toppled dictator ... Hosni Mubarak on February 11 β€” have highlighted the ongoing struggle for women’s rights around the ... still face women everywhere. This was shown in a video clip released on March 8 featuring actor Daniel ...

  10. Afghans rebel against decade of pointless slaughter

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis Crowds burned a US flag in Kabul on October 6 at a rally to mark ... β€œThe consequences of the β€˜war on terror’ has only been more bloodshed, crimes … human rights and ... malalai_joyas_message_on_the_tenth_anniversary_of_natos_war_and_the_occupation_of_afghanistan Video:Β Malalai Joya's Message on the Tenth Anniversary of NATO's War and the Occupation ...

  11. The Berlin Wall 30 years on

    Anti-racism Refugees & migrants Chris Slee Berlin Wall Cold War On November 9, 1989, the ... free meals there. There was progress on women's rights and gay rights. Abortion was legalised in ... East Germany in March 1990, and unity was formalised on October 3 of that year. The German government ...

  12. Loose cannons

    said they would release scientist Rihab Rashid Taha on bail because she was no longer a threat to ... [embassy] officials said they had custody of Taha and Ammash and that the women wouldn't be released ... soon." β€” Knight Ridder Newspapers, September 22. And war is peace "The rise in the number and ...

  13. Feminists rally for Kurds

    Sydney on June 28 to condemn Turkey’s murder of women activists in Kobane, in north-east Syria/Rojava. ... village of Helence, on the outskirts of Kobane, Ergodan ordered a drone attack on the Women’s House called ... feminists must understand and learn from women organising in Rojava. We have been campaigning here on our ...

  14. Population control and women's rights

    been imposed on the Third World and minority groups women since World War II as part of the US ... discourage women from using contraception or taking on roles outside the home. Often the technologies on ... without addressing the strains on women's health brought about through the burden of domestic duties ...

  15. The veil and religious freedom

    code. Today, women incur a fine and instruction if they neglect the correct hijab." Wars waged ... his condemnation was most thunderous on the subject of how Islam treated women. It was Islam's ... degradation of women, its insistence on veiling and seclusion... The Egyptians should be 'persuaded or ...

  16. Hunger strikers protest war in Kurdistan

    Hunger strikers protest war in Kurdistan By Kerryn Williams and Arty Titiz MELBOURNE β€” On November ... 9, Kurdish women here began a hunger strike on the steps of Parliament House to protest against the ... war on the Kurdish people by the Turkish military. The action follows hunger strikes initiated by the ...

  17. Beating the backlash against women

    a demobilised women's liberation movement and the escalating attacks by a system based on extracting more ... a hearing among women because the backlash is bulldozing what remains of the feminist legacy by seizing on ... of the backlash is to accost women on an individual level and to infect them with fear and guilt. The ...

  18. Write on: Letters to the editor

    war with Iraq" at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania on August 19. ALP member and ... the discussion that the war threat was also opposed by a genuine socialist trend on the basis of ... Women in the ACT have won the right to decide for themselves whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, ...

  19. Beauty in Whose Eyes? Images of Women

    out how women felt about advertising on television. Ninety-two per cent of the women surveyed thought ... insulting to women, and are especially concerned at the effect it has on their children. There are no recent ... these expectations, on both women working in those industries and the women who watch us, can be ...

  20. Anti-war activity increases in northern NSW

    hundred people rallied at the Byron Bay war memorial on January 26, to protest the war and discuss further ... crisis several women activists called a rally in Lismore on January 24, which attracted 80 people with ... a day's notice, and from which a Women Against War group was formed. This group will join the recently ...

  21. Sanitising imperialism β€” The problem with 'The Daughters of Kobani'

    the active participation of women fighters on the frontlines of the war against ISIS was ... Units (YPG) and YPJ’s war (and by extension Washington’s war) on the Islamic State (ISIS)? What is the ... building drone technology. Lemmon has been something of an indispensable pen wielder for the US War on ...

  22. Tigrean community campaigns against genocide

    through the city streets on April 23 to protest the war on the north-eastern Ethiopian province by the ... Anti-racism Imperialism & war Alex Salmon Tigray militias United Tegaru- Australia NZ ... Ethiopian army, Eritrean and United Arab Emirates and Amahara militias. The war started in November and has ...

  23. Angela Davis: Bush's war boosts prison industry

    BY KAREN FLETCHER BRISBANE β€” In a keynote address to the Women in Prison Conference on November ... were being exploited in the US to justify a racist "war on terrorism" in which people can be ... arrested and detained on the basis of their ethnicity. President George W. Bush has seized this opportunity ...

  24. and ain't I a woman?: A victory on all fronts?

    the military cannot be justified, women may finally be allowed to serve in a full capacity on the ... class nature of war, and that the body bags shown on nightly television mostly contained the corpses of ... and ain't I a woman?: A victory on all fronts? With the recent announcement from Australian ...

  25. A woman's place is in the struggle: War: a feminist issue

    war has little or nothing to do with feminism. The opposite is true: the impending war on Iraq is the ... oppose the war, however, because that struggle will advance our own. As long as women's oppression ... also oppose the war because women's liberation is impossible while we are divided by racism and ...

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