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  1. The big business of prisons

    population is an integral part of the end of the Cold War, changing relations between labour and capital on ... rushed another economy: the drug economy. The war on drugs The "war on drugs" launched by ... the international level, the war on drugs has been both a cynical cover-up of US government ...

  2. Losing the struggle against HIV in Africa and Asia

    meeting for sex in parks. Against the war on drugs The imperialist "war on drugs" is ... thrives on two economies, the trafficking in opiates and in women. International and domestic political ... Third World countries. Of the 22 million adults now living with HIV, 42% are women, a percentage that is ...

  3. Write on

    Population and social justice Diana Evans (Write On, GLW #66) and others who believe that cutting ... population growth in Australia (almost all due to immigration) is ecologically unsustainable rely on a crude, ... anti-immigration lobby, the sooner we will get there. Peter Boyle Melbourne [Edited for length.] War tax resistance ...

  4. 'The Last Jedi' takes a side in the class war

    Rose — a new character in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a mechanic on the Rebel flagship — explains to ... Film & theatre Kate Aronoff Films and reviews Star Wars Star Wars: The Last Jedi Written & ... directed by Rian Johnson In cinemas Before touching down on the planet of Canto Bight, Rose looks down ...

  5. A century of oppression: The Kurds and the Turkish state

    coincidentally, Turkey has also just quit the Istanbul Convention on violence against women — this, as the writer ... victorious Western imperialists in the aftermath of World War I. Lenin was indubitably correct to insist on ... Democracy Far right History Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East John Tully ...

  6. Apollo Bay rallies against Iraq war

    land and the war on aboriginal custodians from Wathaurong in Geelong to Gunditjimara in Portland. Local ... BY SALLY BROWN APOLLO BAY — "With around 400 women, men and children marching along the Great ... war', this rally is not only the first rural town to have a no war rally, it has shown that in a town of ...

  7. UNITED STATES: 300,000 turn out for New York anti-war march

    Lee Wengraf, New York As many as 300,000 protesters jammed the streets of Manhattan on April 29 ... for the first major anti-war demonstration in New York City in close to two years. The protest was ... organised by the national anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), along with other liberal ...

  8. Troy: A sword and sandal anti-war allegory

    essentially a war of conquest on the ruse of trying to rescue the beautiful Helen from the hands of the ... like investing risk money into my entertainments and the dollars spent on hyped-up Troy were a risk. ... I could get wholesale from every other sword and sandal epic, like Gladiator? Where on Earth was this ...

  9. Write On: Letters to Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly

    and reducing suffering than an expensive war on terrorism with no end in sight. Apparently economic ... invasion and after it. The US embarked on a strategy to control both the military invasion and the post-war ... remember the thousands killed in the "war on terror". It's outlets like GLW who tell the ...

  10. Rebecca West: From socialist suffragist to Cold War conservative

    view that the women campaigning for the vote in 1906 were "unsympathetic and repellent", ... and selling their newspaper on the streets of London. So says Victoria Glendinning in her biography of ... politicians and police, especially the barbaric force-feeding of suffragist prisoners on hunger strike. West ...

  11. Write On: Letters to Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly

    The anti-war movement Sue Bolton (Write On #561), like Raul Bassi and Pip Hinman (Â鶹ӳ»­ ... Washington against the Vietnam War, Nixon was preparing for the escalation of the war. It's incumbent on ... socialists have a responsibility to move the movement, or key Â鶹ӳ»­ of it, beyond placing demands on the ...

  12. War in Afghanistan: what solutions?

    invasion. He told a meeting hosted by Stop the War Coalition Sydney on May 25 that the Taliban was ... invasion and occupation of his country amounts to a "good" war, and is troubled by the prospect ... marriage. "It treats women like sex objects. Women have to have sex with their husband four times ...

  13. Every time they go to war, they start it with a lie

    liberate women, as the reason to go to war in Afghanistan. I am not a supporter of the Islamic State (IS). ... name, on the people of Iraq and Syria and Kurdistan. We must refuse to let them wage war on our civil ... and it is certainly not waging war in the spurious name of defending women. Like the article? ...

  14. Anti-war activist notebook 2

    strike against the war and the International Women's Day anti-war march and rally, they announced on ... they march against war on International Women's Day. Kamprad told Â鶹ӳ»­ Weekly that ... "women and children suffer most from the catastrophes inflicted by capitalism. War is the greatest of ...

  15. Protestors demand end to US-Australia war alliance

    seen the devastating impact of the US’s permanent war in the Middle East, specifically on Afghanistan ... eliminated. “If the major parties were simply sleep walking into another, potentially more dangerous war on ... Kerry Smith Mike Pence Sydney Stop the War Coalition US-Australia alliance Gadigal Country/Sydney ...

  16. Anti-war notebook

    Resistance Centre for a seminar entitled “Stop the war on women”. Topics discussed included women ... Alliance member Bronwen Beechey described the devastating effects that the war on Iraq will have on women ... Pensioner protests war on Iraq BY KAMALA EMANUEL LAUNCESTON- Anti-war activist Bob Bensemann ...

  17. Margaret Holmes: living the fight against war

    "innocent idealistic women" manipulated by "communists and extreme leftists". On the ... his Coalition government had reintroduced conscription in 1964 for the war in Vietnam, was due to ... middle-class women to stand in silent protest with black veils over their faces and slowly file out of the hall ...

  18. Write on

    once. Alex Rhodes Brunswick Vic 'War on drugs' An open letter to the gay and lesbian ... Lesbians and gays are finding ourselves now on the frontlines of the farcical war against drugs, and we are ... The anti-drug campaigns and the so-called "war on drugs" must stop. It is a farce and ...

  19. ALP at war — with itself

    part of the factional war raging between the ALP's right, "left", and "hard ... secretary Paul Matters was prevented on a technicality from standing for preselection for the federal seat ... federal intervention. This is democracy ALP-style. Rank and file members have no say, and women are ...

  20. Kurds under attack at film screening

    Weekly hosted a screening in Perth of the film Kurdistan: Women at War on March 9 to celebrate ... film Kurdistan: Women at War on March 9. News ... Middle East Chris Jenkins Kurdistan: Women at War Films and reviews Boorloo/Perth Â鶹ӳ»­ ...

  21. Afghanistan: The 'good war' from hell

    given. One of these was fighting the "war on drugs". In the eight years of occupation that have ... boys. Women and children also suffer disproportionately from the poverty that the war and occupation has ... Tony Iltis When the US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, several pretexts were ...

  22. Exposing the inhumanity of Bush's war

    casualties. It shows graphic images of men, women and children maimed by US cluster bombs. The interviews with ... a compelling indictment of Australia's involvement in a criminal war. Gillespie is no stranger to danger. ... workplaces, schools and on campuses. Copies can be purchased for $25. For details contact Waratah Films, PO ...

  23. Write on

    Greens (WA) As the Â鶹ӳ»­ reported (# 17), I posted a letter on Pegasus about the involvement ... to the effect that actions were taken in virtual secrecy. This was based on initial investigations ... that proved to be in error. I corrected that statement with a further posting on Pegasus the following ...

  24. Aidex '91: Australia's grab for the war market

    nothing to reduce the enormous wastage of valuable resources on military expenditure. A few years ago, the ... end of the Cold War raised expectations of a peace dividend, possibly consisting of tax cuts, but at ... has shown that $1 billion spent on guided missile production creates about 9000 jobs, whereas the same ...

  25. Our common cause: Industrial relations, war and civil liberties

    slogans shouted in the street. The whisper will become a roar. There are wars going on all over the world ... 6 demonstrations against the war in Iraq and the attack on our civil liberties. "Touch one touch all!" ... women, students and refugees. Policies, which are presented as law-and-order measures to ...

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