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  1. South Korea: Class war in midst of economic crisis

    kilometres south of Seoul. There was a fullscale war on strikers. On August 6, the 77th day since the start ... Young-su Won The class war in South Korea reached a new stage with the struggle of the Ssangyong ... disappear easily. On the day of the agreement, many strikers, including union leaders, were arrested by ...

  2. Australia's history of war: the loyal and the disloyal

    war, is likely to cause immense and destructive division on the homefront. The signs of this are ... join the US and Britain in a legally dubious, highly immoral, massive unprovoked military attack on ... "appeased". It is a facile argument on a number of counts, but contrary lessons from history about the dangers ...

  3. Government 'censoring the truth about the war'

    ever on it. But on the subject of conflict, as a last resort, I am not against going to war, although ... much more complex than that and Australians have a right to know that this war is based on strategies ... stand to reason. "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there", Bush ...

  4. Forgotten victims of a silent war

    NGO s assisting refugees, blames the crisis on the Aquino government's "total war ... life after being shut in a cave which was then set ablaze by soldiers on the central Philippines island ... women's group Gabriela given meals to the children each day. Finally, they were given safe conduct passes ...

  5. John Pilger: Provoking nuclear war by media

    plan an attack on Syria. All have belligerent cold war histories; the former CIA director, Leon ... anniversary of the Clinton welfare β€œreform” that launched a war on African-Americans). As for Obama: while ... Imperialism & war International solidarity Democracy Economy John Pilger The exoneration of ...

  6. Refugees are Abbott's war, but human displacement is a global emergency

    Refugees & migrants Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy Jay Fletcher Asylum seekers ... refugees and asylum seekers are treated like the enemy in a war: the target of a highly resourced, ... them, forced deportations and the violent suppression of those who protest. World Refugee Day on June 20 ...

  7. An eloquent novel of war and human values

    Youth Brigade to the most heavily bombarded front of the war in Vietnam. She spent the next seven years ... live on in me". The author was arrested and imprisoned without trial for seven months in 1991 on ... central Vietnam. The novel is an unflinching portrayal of the obscenity of war. Early in the book, Quan ...

  8. John Pilger: War by media a triumph of propaganda

    Facebook and follow us on Twitter. December 11, 2014 1036 The world is facing the prospect of major war ... Imperialism & war Economy Democracy Media London Why has so much journalism succumbed to ... not information, but power? These are urgent questions. The world is facing the prospect of major war ...

  9. Radical Wollongong film: From mass unemployment to war

    the end of World War I was slow to come to Wollongong. Instead, the immediate post-war employment ... conditions in the bush and on the beaches. During the depression, about a third of the Australian workforce ... was unemployed. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), which formed in Sydney on October 30, 1920, ...

  10. Walden Bello: Where next for the anti-war movement?

    so-called war on terror in South-East Asia is one that we from East Asia must rededicate ourselves to. But ... anti-war and anti-globalisation campaigners held in Beirut in September. Bello is executive director of the ... Bangkok-based research organisation Focus on the Global South and a professor of sociology and public ...

  11. John Pilger: Media complicit in war crimes

    Imperialism & war Media John Pilger The BBC's Today program is enjoying high ratings, and ... a historian rarely heard on the BBC, who chronicles the crimes of the British state; lawyer Phil Shiner and ... Faustian pacts that contrived a world war a century ago resonate today across the Middle East and Asia; ...

  12. Afghanistan: End the war to end the killing

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis On September 27, the Australian Director of Military Prosecutions ... Wilkie, who share most Australians’ opposition to the war. As a result, the war is on the agenda to be ... military forces to invade and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq. Gillard, relying on the support of anti-war MPs, ...

  13. Pakistani leftists on Quetta bombing: 'Establishment must stop backing terror'

    Democracy Imperialism & war Balochistan Quetta Quetta bombing The left-wing Awami Workers ... Party (AWP)Β  has condemned the deadly bombing of the Civil Hospital in Quetta on August 8, in which more ... has been spilled because of our failure to reign in these monsters of our own making. β€œAWP calls on ...

  14. Bush's war threatens millions with starvation

    injured. The sickening hypocrisy of the US government's war on the Afghan people was starkly ... and worsened by the US war, is likely take on the Afghan people. Before the US air strikes, the UN was ... pro-US dictators also fear US moves to extend the "war on terrorism" to Iraq. That nervousness ...

  15. BRAZIL: WSF calls for anti-war protests

    of the Americas (FTAA) and opposition to the impending US-led war on Iraq. These two themes ... pressure on other governments to withdraw their support for such a war could politically isolate the US ... turned out in the US on January 18 to protest the war. The US movement against war was ...

  16. Cold War chess battles

    Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The True Story of How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess ... into the dazzling glare of symbolic Cold War battle when the first non-USSR challenger to the Soviet ... Union's total dominance of post-war chess won his way to the final against the title-holder, Boris ...

  17. US wars: unjust and unwinnable

    Tony Iltis On March 20, anti-war and international solidarity activists globally will mark the ... While Obama benefited electorally from the opposition to the Iraq war in the US (partly based on his ... president. Obama campaigned on a platform of withdrawing troops from Iraq within 16 months. On February 27, ...

  18. People's resistance in the US Civil War

    A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom By David Williams ... the war and has made the most money by it, and sacrificed the least to maintain it?", asked ... a letter writer in the southern state of Georgia during the US Civil War. His answer, "the ...

  19. War, revolution and the birth of the Communist International

    of Stalinisation of the revolution came on the back of a bloody civil war and a massive foreign ... example, and only a few brief paragraphs on the oppression of women. Its main achievement lay in hoisting ... the revolution. In conditions of material hardship β€” Russia had already been devastated by World War ...

  20. Libya: β€˜Humanitarian’ war escalating

    back towards the city of Ajdabiya.” On April 20, at least seven civilians were killed, including women ... Clinton was a loyal ally in the β€œwar on terror” not long ago. The Western intervention was never about ... Imperialism & war Democracy Nicole Colson The US-led military operation in Libya has morphed ...

  21. On the box

    awareness in the rural communities. SBS, Saturday, August 17, 9.30pm. Algeria: Women at War β€” The ... On the box Actively Radical TV β€” Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ... experiences of Algerian women veterans of the struggle for independence from France. SBS, Sunday, August 18, ...

  22. The company that brought you the Gulf War

    monstrous atrocities committed by the Germans against babies and pregnant women. "After the war ... incredible: is it possible that the war was started on the basis of this one atrocity story?" Garrett ... internal memo issued when pro-war hype was waning emphasises a focus on human rights in Kuwait and the need ...

  23. CANADA: Ottawa steps up support for US-led war efforts

    speaking out boldly in support of the US-led imperialist war effort in the Middle East and Asia. He is ... spending the summer months on a lecture circuit as the point man of the Canadian government's new, ... Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Two thousand Canadian soldiers are on their way to Kandahar in ...

  24. The ongoing casualties of war

    thus showing that even after a war has ended, women and children are still disproportionately affected ... paid to how destructive war is to veterans, their families and the society they live in. In the last ... few years, studies have indicated that domestic violence could be reduced by 21% if there were no war ...

  25. On the box

    in 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. SBS, Saturday, October 23, 7.30pm. Blues ... β€” Based on a true story of a low-caste Indian woman who tries to help the plight of women, this film ... Speed: Going to War on Drugs β€” Exposes how the US Air Force, Navy and Special Forces have been issuing ...

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