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  1. Anti-war activist notebook 3

    all women, and will focus on the effects of war on women. There will be a Β“women and children onlyΒ” ... 8 anti-war rally here, a large crowd was expected to travel from Wollongong to Sydney on February 16. ... made the trip. Hundreds of anti-war badges were sold on the trains, people carried banners, home-made ...

  2. United States: What if Black insurrectionists said: β€˜We’re taking over the Capitol to end racism’?

    Anti-racism Democracy Elections Far right North America Malik Miah 2021 attack on US Capitol Black ... been met by armed police and National Guard units. Blood would have flowed on the streets even without ... white skin. It is the only way to understand what happened on January 6 and how the state has responded ...

  3. Turkey is committing war crimes in Afrin

    states of war crimes. On February 23, for instance, Human Rights Watch published a report,Β  Civilian ... killings. What have been the consequences of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s β€œwar on terror”? ... Middle East Democracy Gokcan Aydogan The Kurdish Red Crescent reported on February 27 that at ...

  4. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    Gulf War the US was able to convince the United Nations to impose an embargo on Iraq for 11 years. This ... persecution of minorities on the streets? Arranged marriages? The retraction of women's right to vote? ... began about a year ago and no-one has been moved on since, I feel that we can claim a resounding victory ...

  5. SOLIDARITY WITH AFRIN RALLY

    Solidarity (Sydney). Imperialism & war Middle East Anti-war Kurdish women of Rojava Rojava revolution ... attack on the predominantly Kurdish city of Afrin, part of the democratic autonomous cantons of ... resistance forces- the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women ...

  6. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    value on Palestinian, Israeli and Lebanese lives and regard any loss of life as unnecessary and tragic. ... a violation of Jewish teachings, universal human rights and international law. We call on the Australian ... government to negotiate a solution based on human rights and international law. Angela Budai & Vivienne ...

  7. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    grief I read today Michael Bull's politically illuminating eulogy/feature story on the untimely ... fateful two coins for us all to enjoy betting on (house proceeds to the Express campaign). So let us all ... live on forever through our struggles. Garry Walters Port Macquarie, NSW {Abridged] Equity rooms It ...

  8. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Commendation As a former United States Marine, Korean War era, I want to commend you on your stand ... war. Lawrence E. Baker Davis, California War referendum Confronted with growing public disquiet on ... against Bush's war. It is plain that he wants to rush into war before the November congressional ...

  9. Spanish Civil War veteran Jose AlmudΓ©ver remembers the International Brigades, anti-fascist fight

    Democracy International solidarity Denis Rogatyuk Spanish Civil War International brigades Jose ... during the Spanish Civil War, as left-wing and democratic forces fought to stop the fascist forces of ... failure to take Madrid in 1936, the fascist forces tried a military offensive in early 1937 on the western ...

  10. β€˜Fighting with Pens’: Education & the Rojava Revolution

    a belief in a β€˜Democratic Nation’: a society based on women’s liberation, ecological principles, and ... struggles of the Syrian Civil War in the diverse northeast of the country, and led to the establishment of ... defence forces in fighting Islamic State, but underlying such efforts is a deeper ideological β€˜war ...

  11. BRITAIN: IWD marches oppose Iraq war

    a rally at the US embassy on March 8, International Women's Day. There was a significant presence ... sharply contradicts the British corporate media's assertions that these communities want a war on ... of Iran, the Kurdish Free Women's Movement and the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq. ...

  12. Asia-Pacific socialist conference to confront the crises of capitalism

    an international endeavour. Conference sessions will take up issues including: women ... found on the conference website. Australia November 1, 2021 1324 Socialism 2021 Socialism 2021 website ... anti-war activists World ...

  13. Action updates

    March on International Women's Day BRISBANE β€” The International Women's Day collective ... is expecting a large turnout for this year's IWD rally and march on March 8. The theme is ... "Women demanding peace and justice". Meetings to organise the march have been bigger than in ...

  14. Anti-war activist notebook 2

    Women say 'ItΒ’s not our warΒ’ BY ELISA TRUNZO SYDNEY Β— I told my friend I'd meet her at ... banner Β“No War for OilΒ” on February 21. Speakers argued that access to Iraqi oil fields by western oil ... Bankstown peace picnic! SYDNEY Β— A coalition of organisations opposed to war on Iraq have called on people ...

  15. Eighth anniversary of the Rojava Revolution marked in Sydney

    Turkish crimes against women in occupied Afrin documented Turkish attacks on PKK meet fierce resistance ... Imperialism & war Peter Boyle Rojava revolution Kurds Gadigal Country/Sydney Rojava Solidarity ... Sydney organised a rally to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution on July 19 at ...

  16. United States: The battle against Trumpism can’t be left to the Democrats

    then capitalists after the Civil War β€” and their political parties have been founded on and enforce ... personally loyal to him, believe whatever he says, and ready to do what he wants. Trump is now taking on ... a more public role, including projecting mass rallies, his preferred venue. The first one happened on ...

  17. Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember

    Aboriginal women and children, and this appears to have been the war’s main immediate trigger. Among the ... Β on Twitter. Australia April 21, 2017 1134 Proclamation baords posted during the Black War depicted ... Democracy Indigenous Nicholas Clements Tasmania's Black War Australian War Memorial ...

  18. When Australia voted no to war: the 1916-17 conscription referenda

    world was permitted to vote on whether it would conscript its young men for war.” She considered its ... saying: β€œSo long as Australia hung on to the old country, so long would she be involved in the wars of ... opposition to forcing young men into this war in a rare case of ordinary people being allowed to vote on ...

  19. Catalan parliament officially recognises Rojava administration

    of Kurdish majority centred on Rojava, but also including regions of Arab majority, such as Raqqa, ... for the resolution to be voted on paragraph by paragraph, separating the issue of recognition from ... about Rojava’s experience of grassroots democracy and assess opportunities for cooperation in post-war ...

  20. John Pilger: A world war has begun-- break the silence

    magazine called Women's Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Indigenous International solidarity Democracy Economy Elections ... radiation. My shoes registered "unsafe" on a Geiger counter. Standing on the beach, I watched the ...

  21. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    Greens' protest. They ignored the main issue (the continuing war on Iraq) in favour of drawing attention ... their fists, and one pushing a women on her breasts, pushed the protesters back. Despite this police ... ships, on the ground, for example, in the streets of Baghdad. War would be obsolete tomorrow! Anne Horan ...

  22. Iraq: Hundreds of Kurdish villagers flee Turkish bombs as jihadists take their homes

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East Steve Sweeney Hundreds of Kurdish ... invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan, codenamed Operation Claw Lightning, started on April 23, the anniversary of ... the start of the Ottoman Armenian genocide in 1915, during which 1.5 million men, women and children ...

  23. Anti-war activist has no regrets

    words "No war" on the sails of the Sydney Opera House. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly 's Niko Leka and ... all marched on February 16 last year, each one was trying to stop a war with their own two feet and ... to β€” with illegally and immorally sending our troops to war in all of our names, that message ...

  24. West Papua: Crackdown feared following Indonesian intelligence chief’s death

    Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war Indigenous International solidarity National ... Indonesian military may be preparing an assault on the West Papuan liberation movement, following the death ... near Dambet Village, Puncak District, on April 25. The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) reported ...

  25. PAKISTAN: LPP vows to build anti-war movement

    to mobilise hundreds of working-class women against the war on Iraq. She also gave examples of how ... second congress here on March 22-23. LPP delegates agreed to increase their efforts to build the anti-war ... Women Workers Help Line, presented a report on the LPP's work among women. The WWHL has been able ...

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