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1. Why the war criminals must leave Afghanistan

   Pip Hinman While the war in Afghanistan has dropped off the front pages, seven years on, 56% of ... (depending on which part of the country). Adult literacy is 29%. In some regions, less than 1% of the ... population is literate. One in five children dies before the age of five. If anything, the war is preventing ...

2. United States: Protests continue against voter suppression

   American Civil War in 1865, the country was at a crossroads. The US might have built a society based on ... a speech in Philadephia on July 13, where Biden attacked the Republican effort to overturn the will of the ... the face to civil rights and Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders and other activists on the ground. ...

3. INDONESIA: Yudhoyono under pressure to end Aceh war

   groups, women's organisations and the radical left have been calling on Yudhoyono to fulfil his ... Democratic Resistance Front and the Acehnese Democratic Women's Organisation called on Yudhoyono to ... round of the presidential election, held on September 20, Yudhoyono garnered an overwhelming 80% in ...

4. Defend a united anti-war organising coalition!

   BY NICK EVERETT SYDNEY- On August 18, a special meeting of the Walk Against the War Coalition, ... which organised the 500,000-strong anti-war rally on February 16, will be held to debate a proposition ... co-conveners of the Walk Against the War Coalition, to wind up the coalition. On July 7, at a meeting that was ...

5. Socialists intimidated for speaking against war

   Student Union has taken drastic action to prevent students from organising against the US war drive. After ... union to stop people fighting against racism and war." National Union of Students Queensland ... women's officer Jo Ball condemned the union's actions. "The SWSC is simply trying to give its ...

6. UNITED STATES: Anti-war protests gain strength, breadth

   and banners focused on stopping the war with Iraq, but also dealt with the anti-terrorism legislation ... resolution in the UN Security Council and many signs ridiculing Bush, the “war on terror” and his “empty ... separate themselves from the majority, and the anti-war movement can begin to force a public debate on the ...

7. The last time the US launched ‘fire and fury’ in Korea, millions died

   have poured cold water on the idea there could be a short term war between the US and North Korea. The ... often genuine and based on memories of the Korean war: “The hate, though, is not all manufactured. It is ... the air war focused, instead, on ‘MiG alley,’ a narrow patch of North Korea near the Chinese border. ...

8. Mark Dapin's Vietnam War novel — cynical, emotionally wounded males run amok

   talent for mining laughs out of pain that is on show in this Vietnam War-based novel. Dapin also has ... History Books & music Barry Healy Racism sexism Vietnam War militarism R&R: A Novel By ... a keen interest in men at war and criminals. He has edited two collections of Australian war reportage ...

9. United States: Kamala Harris selection causes racist and sexist backlash by Trump

   ’s rights, especially on the 100 th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. The suffragette movement ... Anti-racism Democracy Elections Imperialism & war Malik Miah United States elections Black ... far left”. This is no accident. Black women have always been denigrated more than any other group in ...

10. The war against the majority

    institutions on the one hand, and on the other the vast majority of the population of the world. This is a war ... The war against the majority This statement was issued by the "North-South Dialogue" ... sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth in New Delhi, September 22-23. Although the cold war ...

11. The other history wars

    March". Twenty-three stab wounds later, on March 15, 44 BCE, Caesar's body lay dead on the floor of ... death, has a similar take on the Roman Senate. "We are asked to believe that the Senate was ... of wealth and moderate infringements on aristocratic power. The Gracchi were called dangerous ...

12. US anti-war unionist speaks out

    Alex Bainbridge Gadigal Country/Sydney Kathy Black, a convener of US Labor Against the War ... (USLAW), told a union reception in Sydney on February 29 that she is proud that the organisation has ... brought workers into the anti-war movement, remarking that "this was the first time that labour has ...

13. Afghanistan: an unjust war unravels — time for troops to leave

    Tony Iltis On November 2, Hamid Karzai began another term as president of Western-occupied ... to be held only because of pressure on Karzai and the occupation forces after revelations of massive ... fraud in the August 20 first round "won" by the incumbent. A joint statement on November 3 by ...

14. Howard's history wars offensive in schools

    alternative in our society to what now exists. The "history wars" of recent years have been ... announced the new front in the history wars as a drive by his government to return to teaching history as ... of European settlers on Aboriginal Australia, the development of trade unions and the ALP, and ...

15. US forces step up war in Somalia

    in which innocent Somalis have been killed and bungled raids on non-military installations by US ... commandos. In the latest incident, at least 200 Somalis — mainly women and children — were killed when a US ... Cobra helicopter gunship opened fire on a crowd in Mogadishu on September 10. (Cobras have not been used ...

16. United States: We must fight Trumpism until we win

    Anti-racism Elections Far right Imperialism & war Malik Miah Trumpism and anti-Trumpist ... experts on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. We live in a country in epistemological crisis, ... American problem. All around the world, rising right-wing populist parties are floating on oceans of ...

17. John Pilger: Media lies fuel war drive

    Imperialism & war Media John Pilger On 22 May 2007, the British Guardian 's front page ... influence a vote in the US Congress. Based entirely on briefings by anonymous US officials, Tisdall's ... "exclusive" rippled with lurid tales of Iran's "murder cells" and "daily acts of war ...

18. Seminar on feminist struggle in northern Syria

    speaking at the seminar. In 2015, while reporting on the renewed war between the Turkish army and the ... Feminist Revolution" is the title of a one-day seminar to be held at Victoria University on November ... Women’s League of Victoria and the Australians for Kurdistan solidarity group. It is also sponsored by ...

19. Linking war and globalisation

    military war on Afghanistan and the neo-liberal global order. Turkish refugee from Women Against War and ... anti-war activist Tara Povey told 60 people at Trades Hall on January 31. She described Bush's speech ... as another attempt by the right wing to justify their war on the Third World. The meeting, called by ...

20. UNITED STATES: Bolivian human rights leader barred from US

    Chapare, a coca producing region in Bolivia where the US-sponsored war on drugs has resulted in forced ... articulate the change that needs to happen in the war on drugs." The case for Zurita's visa ... War on Terror "We invited Leonida here to increase the dialogue between US citizens and Bolivians ...

21. Write on: Letters to the editor

    endured by the women of Afghanistan under the Taliban, or the impact of the US-led war on women. Instead ... claimed that demands place an agenda on the speakers, and that they exclude ethnic and Aboriginal women ... about the need for women to get involved in the anti-war campaign and demanded that the war be stopped. ...

22. International Wormens Day Rally and March

    Women’s Day rally will take place FRIDAY, 8 MARCH 2019 at 5:30PM at the STATE LIBRARY on Swanston Street. ... International Womens Day Melbourne Naarm/Melbourne Spread the word–this year’s International ... #IWD2019 2019 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MELBOURNE POLITICAL DEMANDS We demand: Justice for First Nations ...

23. Keep the streets: Coup, crisis and capital in Myanmar

    Asia & the Pacific Democracy Elections History Imperialism & war International solidarity ... State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and seized the reins of government on February 1, likely putting ... trajectory of capitalist transition in Myanmar. Where are we now? What’s happened since the coup on February ...

24. John Pilger: New threats of war and fascism

    2001. Operation Cyclone became the “war on terror”, in which countless men, women and children would ... “humanitarian war” against Libya drew on a model close to western liberal hearts, especially in the media. In ... called for “full scale war” with nuclear-armed Russia. On February 21, US Senator James Inhofe, ...

25. PALESTINE: The forgotten war in Gaza

    Kim Bullimore While most world attention has focused on the brutal Israeli attack on Lebanon, ... Israeli occupation forces have continued to their month-long assault on the Gaza Strip. Since June 28, ... than 600 have been wounded; around one-quarter of them have been children. Haaretz reported on July 28 ...

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