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  1. 'Radical times' conference slams war plans

    '70s” conference overwhelmingly condemned US plans to wage war against Iraq. Participants demanded that ... the Australian government keep out of any war in the Middle East. The conference's aim was “to ... and 1970s], focusing on students at the University of Queensland”. It was organised by the Brisbane ...

  2. Mali: African debt campaigners condemn France's war

    Imperialism & war Economy Statement on the military intervention in Mali by the Africa Network ... women, who bear an enormous burden in keeping the country going, suffer from privations of all types on ... situation denounced in the appeal sent out by the women of Mali must open our eyes to a terrible reality ...

  3. Afghanistan: Not a lone madman — massacre a symptom of insane war

    Imperialism & war Pip Hinman The massacre of 16 people in the Panjwai District of Kandahar ... province in Afghanistan on March 11 re-ignited widespread calls, inside and outside Afghanistan, for ... Bales, along with 15-20 others, went on a rampage — sexually assaulting, then massacring and burning ...

  4. 'Turkey, hands off Afrin, stop the attacks': Australian socialists

    Imperialism & war National liberation International solidarity Socialist Alliance Rojava ... Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) People's Defense Units (YPG) ... ShĂŞrawa and Mabeta districts in northern Syria, ANF News reported on January 20. The progressive forces ...

  5. How Ecuador’s democracy is being suffocated

    Rafael Correa Ecuador’s neoliberal war on public sector worsens COVID-19 catastrophe Ecuador: Fuel ... investment to strengthen social and economic rights came alongside a crackdown on corporate (including ... undercounting, to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attack on the Correistas Moreno and his right-wing allies needed to ...

  6. On the box

    societies around the world. Women present widely differing views on social issues which affect their lives. ... women's personal accounts of the impact of this law on their lives. SBS, Wednesday, August 14, 8.30pm. ... On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ...

  7. Tamil activists speak out for rights here and in Sri Lanka

    refugees and activists Kalyani Inpakumar and Renuga Inpakumar, who fled the Sinhalese war, are campaigning ... hundreds of women were raped.  Sinhala inmates, assisted by prison guards, gouged out the eyes of Tamil ... political prisoners, slaughtering 37 prisoners on July 25 that year. Another 18 prisoners were killed two ...

  8. Thousands converge on Afrin for large solidarity march

    [Abridged from TheRegion.org. There is a sign-on statement for Australians to oppose Turkey’s war that you ... Imperialism & war International solidarity Rojava Afrin Autonomous Administration of North and ... Northern Syria defied a threat of bombardment by the Turkish State on February 6 to stand in solidarity ...

  9. No to war spending

    Group, Stop the War Coalition, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Pax Christi ... Kerry Smith On August 27, outside a "Defence White Paper community consultation", Stop ... the War Coalition held a protest. Inside, peace activists made up about 40% of an audience of about ...

  10. Whatever happens … it’s the end of the world as we know it

    that we will just end our civilisation”. These are the words of one of the leading scientists on ... linger in the atmosphere for centuries. More starkly, if carbon emissions continue on their current ... food on large parts of the planet, much of the world would be desert, and many places would be ...

  11. Anti-war and anti-racist activists contest student elections

    vice-president as part of No War No Racism. No War No Racism is also running for education officer, women ... BY GRANT COLEMAN WOLLONGONG — “War and racism affect us all and students have an important role to ... War No Racism” ticket running in the October 22-24 Wollongong University Student Representative ...

  12. Peace Pilgrims to disrupt war games

    various locations in Australia to rehearse war, including at Shoalwater Bay, on the southern end of the ... Street Barracks, next to Rockhampton airport. The latest David Bradbury film, War on Trial, about events ... Imperialism & war Julie Davies Talisman Sabre military exercises Rockhampton Peace convergence ...

  13. 'War will not stop terrorism'

    protesters who gathered at Town Hall on September 29. She was speaking for NOWAR (Network Opposing War and ... Bush's "war on terrorism" will be a "war on the Third World, a war in which the few ... will be the ones to suffer in a war", one of the women explained. The anti-war protesters marched ...

  14. Yemen: Amid growing bloodshed, Saudi war enters third year

    start of the Saudi-led, US-supported  war on Yemen. Involving a blockade of Yemen and the  consequent ... war on Yemen in 2009, when Obama authorised the use of aerial drone strikes in the country. This drone ... House permission.” This bombardment is part of the as-yet undeclared US war on Yemen, in addition to the ...

  15. On the box

    effects of the war, how it changed the position of women and the implications on the structure of the ... On the box True Stories: War of Distance — Wives of men who returned from World War II tell how ... — A controversial documentary on Tahir Mahmood. A private detective, Tahir tracks down and returns Asian women who ...

  16. HelpNotHarm: but what about rights?

    Ryan Cole War on drugs help not harm GetUp! Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation opium drug users ... expansion of the war on drugs. It would be a further expansion of harm created by the policies and laws that ... was increasingly demonised and subject to harsh taxes and laws. War on drugs The war on drugs has ...

  17. The war for power in Venezuela’s countryside

    military structure, to go with the approximately 150 men and women it can count on to carry out its orders. ... media coverage has focused on clashes in Caracas. However, the opposition’s campaign to bring down the ... government of Nicolas Maduro has not been limited to the country’s capital. Marco Teruggi reports on a recent ...

  18. Afghan war horrors fuel anger

    regime. The past decade’s “war on terror” propaganda notwithstanding, the West and political Islamists ... Imperialism & war Tony Iltis The US-led international occupation force in Afghanistan (ISAF) ... meant to be mentoring. What is more, the US is increasingly focused on seeking to draw the Taliban into ...

  19. Afghanistan: War lost, but killing continues

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis On June 25, ABC News Radio reported 79 occupation soldiers had ... but previously hotly denied by the war’s supporters. On June 14 the New York Times “revealed” that ... On June 23, US President Barack Obama sacked the commander of US-led occupation forces in ...

  20. The war of terrorists

    as trenches for their "holy" fight, turning women and children into human shelters. On the ... Mahdi Army actions include: imposing veils on women; destruction of liquor shops and killing their ... Alliance, reported on the conflict in Fallujah and commended the Iraqi resistance there. In the following ...

  21. Obama & Gillard: partners in war crime

    believe that the same applies to Afghanistan. The “war on terror” has been used as an excuse to colonise ... opinion on foreign policy We do not accept that Australia’s foreign policy is best served by a war ... a co-operative and peaceful world. The wars being waged today are wars for the 1%. The light on the hill is out. ...

  22. Thousands march against war

    US-British war on Iraq and to demand a stop to Israel's US-backed war against the Palestinian people. ... The rally was jointly organised by the No War on Iraq Coalition and the Palestine Human Rights ... that “Australians need to be on the street... it will be the working-class men and women of Australia ...

  23. Commission hears evidence of US war crimes

    Inquiry on US War Crimes in the Gulf by Dr Nawal El Saadawi, the convener of the Egyptian Commission of ... NEW YORK — A crowd of 1000 filled Stuyvesant High School auditorium on May 17 to hear former US ... States and its allies in the Gulf War. Clark was joined in the opening session of the Commission of ...

  24. Activists stopped from honouring civilian war dead

    Imperialism & war At noon on October 8, Stop the War Coalition Sydney will mark the 10th ... the views of the majority on the war in Afghanistan. “We intend to make a dignified condemnation of ... on, is that the troops must be brought home for the deaths to cease.” Iltis said: “World War I, which ...

  25. Putting public ownership back on the agenda

    ownership are stronger than ever. That logic is based on the two factors which dominate current political ... economy: globalisation and the end of the Cold War. Globalisation Globalisation is a buzz word which has ... invested only if the return on that capital is at least equal to the possible return if the capital was ...

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