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  1. Documenting resistance in colonial Kenya

    war of economic independence”. In the latter, the resistance was on political and economic fronts ... Africa Books & music Shehina Fazal Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau Mau & its Legacy of ... relations department of the colonial government in Kenya never referred to the Mau Mau struggles as a β€œwar ...

  2. IRAQ: UN: war will cause 'humanitarian disaster'

    refugees, said that a war on Iraq "will be a disaster from a humanitarian perspective". This is ... confirmed by confidential draft UN report obtained by the Cambridge-based Campaign Against Sanctions on ... Iraq, which predicts around 2 million Iraqis will be internally displaced by the war. The leaked report ...

  3. Eyewitness to horror of war in Iraq

    Mulhearn told the 70 people present that they were right for protesting the war on Iraq and that "your ... towards the human shields, especially at anti-war youth rallies and the International Women's Day ... a public forum at Club Nova on April 23, detailing her experiences as a "human shield" in Iraq. ...

  4. Activists to discuss war, racism

    and ANSWER, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. The conference will focus on the war in Afghanistan ... and women rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the myths around refugees, politics in the Middle ... BY FRED FUENTES MELBOURNE β€” Activists from around the country will converge on Melbourne on ...

  5. War, resistance and the ALP

    a long overdue documentation of a little known chapter in the history of women and progressive politics ... in Australia. It is the story of five women who founded Save Our Sons (SOS), a movement which ... campaigned against conscription and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War during the 1960s and ...

  6. As Syria's conflict intensifies, where do democratic hopes lie?

    equally brutal war between the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, increasingly dependent on foreign military ... Arab majority. Furthermore, its emphasis on social justice, participatory democracy and women ... Imperialism & war Democracy Tony Iltis Afrin democratic condeferalism Syrian Democratic Forces ...

  7. ACT protest demands end to the war

    November 7 against the bipartisan Coalition-Labor backing of the US war on Afghanistan. Speakers from the ... Socialist Alliance, ACT Greens, Women Building Peace, the Medical Association for Prevention of War ... he added, since both the Coalition and Labor support the war on Afghanistan and against refugees, ...

  8. Defeat of conscription in World War 1 remembered

    meeting in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick on the campaign against conscription during World War I. ... Imperialism & war Chris Slee World War I Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) conscription ... Michael Hamel-Green, a draft resister during the Vietnam War who is now an emeritus professor at Victoria ...

  9. How long will Australia remain silent about Afrin?

    Imperialism & war Hawzhin Azeez Turkey Afrin People's Defense Units (YPG) Women ... smuggled from northern Iraq across the border on a clear spring dawn. It is 1988 and the Iran-Iraq War is ... 's Protection Units (YPJ) I am almost four years old. I am on horseback with my mother as our family is being ...

  10. Hobart organises against war

    was held on February 2, the city's umbrella anti-war organisation, organised and spontaneous ... anti-war rallies on the side of his campervan in prominent locations around Hobart. A Sandy Bay resident ... painted anti-war slogans on a bedsheet and hung it out their window. The Socialist Alliance has formed an ...

  11. Reclaim the Night to focus on solidarity

    BY JOHN NEBAUER ADELAIDE β€” Women gathered in the Women's Pioneer Memorial Gardens on October ... solidarity with women around the world struggling against the effects of war and invasion, and with the ... are women); as long as our government insists on locking those refugees up; as long as we know there ...

  12. Turkey: Leyla GΓΌven β€” 'We can exist only by solidarity’

    Democracy Imperialism & war International solidarity National liberation Susan Price ... Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP for Hakkari, Leyla GΓΌven, went on ... the embodiment of Kurdish women and the symbol of resistance in Turkey and across the world. GΓΌven ...

  13. Rojava Revolution: What does the β€˜safe zone’ deal mean?

    Middle East Dave Holmes Turkish military Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Women's Protection ... involvement of women and the relentless efforts to empower them is simply without historical precedent. All ... genuine people’s revolutions have drawn women into the struggle to some extent, but never like this. In ...

  14. 'Don't go to war for Packer'

    is George Bush's "lap dog" because of his keeness to join Washington's war on ... BY EMMA MURPHY ADELAIDE Β— On October 29, around 100 people attended a public meeting in Adelaide ... organised by the Network Opposing War and Racism. The meeting was chaired by ABC radio personality Julia ...

  15. Burma: Trafficking worsens with war's return

    Imperialism & war Feminism Democracy Lee Yu Kyung Je yang camp, located a 30 minutes drive on ... war resumed, KIO hasn’t been able to concentrate on the issue like they did before. All KIO forces ... scenery would have been far more stunning without the presence of humans. But the resumption of civil war ...

  16. Write on

    Serbia's war According to Justin Starchevic (Write on, October 7), "Milosevic should ... help Bosnian Serbs in their civil war for the same reason that Australia always helped Britain and ... America in their wars". Good comparison. As socialists, we opposed British and US imperialist wars in ...

  17. Turkish Kurdistan: Town after town declares self-government in face of war

    in the president. Now, he has declared a personal war on the Kurds ahead of an early election. ... self-government. In response, the state virtually declared war on the people of Varto, starting with a wave of ... Women's News Agency.] Like the article? Subscribe to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ now! You can also like us on Facebook and ...

  18. Anti-war demonstration in Moscow

    On February 5, an anti-war demonstration took place in Moscow's Pushkin Square. The ... demonstration was called by a number of Russian anarchist and ecologist groups, including the Anarchist Anti-war ... Socio-Ecological Union. The Movement for a Workers' Party, which has called a demonstration against the war ...

  19. Iraq War vet condemns a sick and violent system

    Against the War in the United States. He recently visited Australia to promote the documentary film On The ... and Stop the War Coalition in Sydney on February 26. *** I grew up on the south side of Chicago. My ... up of servicemen and women who have served since 9/11 and who want to end the wars in Iraq and ...

  20. Children of the Gulf War

    shells were fired on Iraq by the multilateral forces in the 1991 Gulf War. The US-led forces have ... The Children of the Gulf War, an exhibition of photographs depicting the effects of depleted ... uranium on the children of the Iraq, is showing at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) until ...

  21. Iraqi refugee opposes war

    US drive to war against Iraq. The keynote speaker was Iraqi refugee Surma Hamid. Speaking on behalf ... of the Committee for the Defence of Iraqi Women, Hamid explained why there should be no war against ... from this war". A Maribyrnong Anti-War Group was formed out of the forum and will hold a rally on ...

  22. Letter from the US: Trump’s foreign policy tactical shifts bring prospect for more war

    after the September 11, 2001 attacks to justify the β€œWar on Terror”. Largely Muslim countries in the ... turned out for International Women’s Day on March 8, part of the International Women’s Strike that took ... Economy Imperialism & war Democracy Barry Sheppard Donald Trump San Francisco The disarray ...

  23. ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly celebrates 800 issues!

    solidarity with women and workers worldwide, for your excellent reporting on the anti-war actions of the ... personnel opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) congratulate ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly on having attained its ... from the frontlines of the war between rich and poor. Congratulations on your 800th capsule of ...

  24. Turkey steps up military intervention in Iraq

    National liberation Chris Slee Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Turkey's war on Kurdistan ... Turkish jets began bombing the Xakurke region of northern Iraq on May 26. The following day Turkish ... equal rights for women and the inclusion of ethnic and religious minorities. Rojava was attacked by ...

  25. Rockhampton protests war

    February 15 as part of the global weekend of action against war on Iraq. It was the largest rally held in ... determination to voice their opposition to this unjust war. Erin Cameron, organiser of the International Women ... BY TERRICA STRUDWICK ROCKHAMPTON Β— Around 600 central Queensland residents protested here on ...

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