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  1. 'Blowback' in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan during the 1980s. This support not only had a direct bearing on the outcome of that war, but also ... on the subsequent civil war of the 1990s, in which the bin Laden-equipped Taliban fought against the ... which since 1994 has followed wars and treated more than 200,000 victims, whatever side they were on. In ...

  2. Henry Reynolds’ unpicks Australia’s obsession with glorifying unnecessary wars

    war on the Australian continent against the original Aboriginal inhabitants, but Australia’s ... war, from the Boer War on. Reynolds’ book is a worthy part of the resistance to the khaki tide. ... Imperialism & war Books & music History Phil Shannon Unnecessary Wars Henry Reynolds ...

  3. INDIA/PAKISTAN: Left stages coordinated protests against war drive

    protest against the war drive and the threat of nuclear devastation on the subcontinent. Β“How can arms ... BY EVA CHENG Β  Thousands rallied on June 13 in at least nine cities across India and Pakistan to ... organisations on both sides of the India-Pakistan border. LPP's Moazzam Bhatti reported that the Lahore ...

  4. IRAQ: Civilians to pay the price of US war

    that the coming war on Iraq will kill and main hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. "Iraq is not only ... on the brink of war" but is "teetering on the edge of a humanitarian disaster", wrote ... titled Collateral Damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq in November 2002. It predicts ...

  5. Palestinian-Iraqi refugees β€” the forgotten victims of Iraq war

    International solidarity Middle East National liberation Iraq War Iraq Naarm/Melbourne ... Palestinian-Iraqi refugees are some of the forgotten victims of the Iraq war. In 1948, Palestinians were forced to ... forced to leave are now stranded in refugee camps on the Iraqi-Syrian border. University of Melbourne ...

  6. ACEH: Jakarta declares all-out war

    connection with GAM. On May 21, police arrested women's rights activist Cut Askiin, declaring her ... said the war will not affect military cooperation with Indonesia. Defence minister Robert Hill said on ... Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Jakarta on May 19 launched a "security ...

  7. INDONESIA: Aceh war overshadows Jakarta peace conference

    Dick Cheney. The conference adopted statements on Iraq, globalisation and militarism, and on the wars ... militarism, neoliberalism and the war on Aceh were the themes of the protest, which was dispersed after ... BY NICK EVERETT JAKARTA β€” On May 19-21, more than 60 peace activists from 26 countries met at ...

  8. US conference exposes Washington's 'war against the poor'

    US conference exposes Washington's 'war against the poor' By Bill Nevins EUGENE, ... speaking at the national Work, Welfare and Politics Conference held here on February 28 and 29. The ... conference, organised by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Labor Education and Research ...

  9. Syria: Amid terror, blockades, autonomous democratic federation struggles to meet refugee needs

    blockade and war. But there has been a proliferation of cooperatives, and an emphasis on women ... ISIL) Asylum seekers & refugees Kurdish women of Rojava An ISIS attack on May 2 near the Rajim ... Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Refugees & migrants Tony Iltis Syrian ...

  10. NATO's 'humanitarian' war: it's a lie

    a "necessary" war. One such NATO "error" was on April 12, when missiles struck a railway bridge near ... a blatant lie, a lie which is becoming increasingly obvious. For more commentary on the war visit ... Resistance! NATO's 'humanitarian' war: it's a lie By Kerryn Williams As the ...

  11. Socialist Alliance protests the war

    demonstration. Alison Stewart from NOWAR told protesters and onlookers that the war on terrorism means ... "Peace is possible, war is not the answer!" People on the footpaths cheered and clapped and drivers ... Pointing out the ALP had no significant differences with the Coalition on the war, or the persecution of ...

  12. Half a million rally against war in Sydney

    history, up to 500,000 rallied on February 16 against war in Iraq. Many protesters did not march, but ... war on Iraq. From ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly, February 19, 2003. Visit the ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly home page. ... by. A range of local anti-war groups organised feeder marches to Hyde Park. The trains from ...

  13. Parliamentary debate on Afghanistan 'a farce'

    Imperialism & war Pip Hinman War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Ngunnawal/Canberra On October 19, ... pulled out an IED – an improvised explosive devise. (The β€œwar on terrorism” has ushered in a ridiculous ... whistling tactics – this time to those still half convinced of the need to continue the β€œwar on terrorism”. ...

  14. United States: Derek Chauvin sentenced for George Floyd's murder

    violence Derek Chavin was sentenced to 22.5 years in a Minnesota prison on June 25, for the murder of ... seconds on Floyd’s neck on May 25 last year. β€œI do want to give my condolences to the Floyd family,” ... himself: Why? What were you thinking? What was going through your head when you had your knee on my ...

  15. Human Rights Day protests: No war! No racism!

    Forestry, Mining and Energy Union called the US-led "war on terror" a "carnival of ... 's City Square to protest the war in Afghanistan, and to call on the Australian government to welcome ... against the "war on terrorism" and the Australian government's inhumane treatment of ...

  16. Fighting the Vietnam War in print

    The Viet Nam War, the American War: Images and Representation in Euro-American and Vietnamese ... Reviewed by Phil Shannon The Vietnam War may have ended over 20 years ago, but the US political and ... racism) in an attempt to justify the war it lost politically at home and militarily in Vietnam. Renny ...

  17. Stories from Australia's unfinished land war

    disturbing, especially the section on sexual violence where we are told of the frequency that Aboriginal women ... Stories from Australia's unfinished land war details = Frontier: Stories from White ... Australia's Forgotten War CD-ROM ABC through Dataworks Educational Software $49.95 By Andy Gianniotis ...

  18. UNITED STATES: War crimes revealed: 'We killed anything that walked'

    bounds of war and began killing unarmed civilians β€” men, women and children β€” in some cases, very ... October 22, in which journalists Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss exposed terrible war crimes committed ... during the Vietnam War by an elite US Army platoon called the Tiger Force. The Tiger Force killings were ...

  19. Japan boosts its role as part of US war machine

    Japan boosts its role as part of US war machine By Eva Cheng Despite widespread protest, the upper ... house of Japan's parliament rushed through on May 24 three bills to greatly increase the ... country's role in the United States' war machine. Japan will now be obliged to provide ...

  20. Anti-war movement cannot ignore refugee issue

    BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS & MARGARITA WINDISCH The US-led war on Afghanistan is killing hundreds and ... racist attacks on Muslim women, on mosques and those who look Arabic. In recognition of the racist nature ... "No war!", "No Australian involvement", and "Stop attacks on democratic ...

  21. Dracula's Army and war atrocities

    "It's all a haunt from the past. Move on and kill them all. "War is war. It is not going for ... wars", the slaughter of civilians depicted in the video released by WikiLeaks, Collateral Damage, has ... and Iraq, the invaders have committed numerous atrocities: shooting unarmed locals at checkpoints, on ...

  22. Pilger's new film: media’s pro-war spin exposed

    a perspective on war that is often unheard in a media landscape dominated by corporate interests. Pilger ... is focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ongoing occupation of Palestinian ... Imperialism & war Kelly Ryan See the activist calendar for details of screenings in your city. ...

  23. ACEH: Indonesia moves closer to all-out war

    BY MAX LANE JAKARTA β€” A report issued on May 9 by the conservative Brussels-based International ... military is not using the phrase 'shock and awe', but the stream of reports on the number of ... first asking women and children to come out from their homes, then unarmed men. This, he said, ...

  24. Unity in the face of permanent war

    a pre-conference public meeting as well as on a panel on how to build the anti-war movement. These two sessions, ... combined with workshop roundtable discussions on the anti-war movement, consolidated this issue as central ... International Solidarity Conference (APISC 2005), in Sydney on March 24-28. The APISC conferences (the last was ...

  25. Interview: Why trade unions should campaign to free Kurdish leader Abdullah Γ–calan

    and isolation of Γ–calan is being mirrored across Turkish society with the government's war on all ... leader Abdullah Ocalan Biden will wage war on the Kurdish revolution World ... unionist Clare Baker (from the Unite Union) will be speaking at a free webinar on April 16 alongside former ...

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