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  1. IRAQ: Global unions vow to oppose Iraq war

    BY DAVID BACON SAN FRANCISCO Β— In the wake of the massive global anti-war protests on February ... 14-16, opposition to a US war on Iraq among trade unions in many countries may take a much more tangible ... workers, and asserts that war hysteria is being used as a pretext for attacks on trade unions' and ...

  2. Behind Kony 2012 and Ugandan war criminals

    Imperialism & war Kony The Kony 2012 film, produced by the Invisible Children NGO, has gone ... Invisible Children. There is no doubt the huge support it has generated is based on a genuine desire to take ... action against a war criminal, but the issues behind the film, the backing of the Ugandan military and ...

  3. A soldier's fight against an unjust war

    and breaches of the Geneva Conventions, particularly the sexual abuse of women and children in war ... Phil Shannon The Deserter's Tale: Why I Walked Away From the War in Iraq By Joshua Key Text ... being however, soldier on, staying disciplined and quiet, but inside he had crossed a line, nurturing ...

  4. Anti-war protests grow

    condemned the attack on the United States as well as the war on Afghanistan. She pointed out that more ... Australian troops have been deployed in this war than in any conflict since the Vietnam War β€” on a per capita ... 's Network. On arrival at First Fleet Park, the protesters were addressed by representatives of anti-war ...

  5. Miss Army Recruiter turns against the war

    her accomplished book on Fonda's opposition to the US war against Vietnam. The 1937 child of ... also attends pro-choice rallies. Although blaming war on patriarchy rather than imperialism, she also ... Bush administration's attacks on Iraq, free speech and civil rights under cover of the "war ...

  6. Video: COVID-19 and the Global South

    Healthcare Imperialism & war International solidarity Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) April 14, ... the online forum on COVID-19 and the Global South hosted by Socialist Alliance and ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ on April ... All India Progressive Women's Association. Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic and feminist who ...

  7. 30,000 students strike against war: plan to strike again March 26.

    impending war on Iraq. Some elements were common to almost all the rallies and marches: the protesters were ... Β“We need to make a better world, not a world based on corporate greed and war. If the government ... life with chants of Β“Use your brains, use your heart, no US war on IraqΒ” when 300 people joined the ...

  8. IRAQ: Covering up US war crimes

    since the war started and the thousands of women and children killed and wounded since the assault on ... political propaganda during the 1930s, as I watch the US "news" reports of the violent assault on ... their wives and sweethearts on the tanks and armoured vehicles that destroy Iraqi families and turn ...

  9. India: Corporate rule and nuclear war can't make us secure

    powerful friend in the war on terror β€” the US β€” is guilty of an even worse crime. The US Army ran the ... and is the national secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association. She is a featured ... to a nuclear war to defeat the "demons", so be it β€” a better world will emerge from it. ...

  10. UNITED STATES: The new cold war

    "war on terrorism". There will be special funding for new, refined weapons of mass slaughter and ... ignorance is strength. Today's slogan, war on terrorism, also reverses meaning. The war is terrorism. ... biggest-ever war machine. Military spending will rise to US$379 billion, of which $50 billion will pay for its ...

  11. Class conflict in the shadow of World War I

    sentiment grew as the war went on. It is also often assumed that young men were eager to join the army, ... anti-war and anti-conscription sentiment. On August 30, 1916, Labor Party Prime Minister Billy Hughes ... that the war had generated”. The strike started on the initiative of rank-and-file workers. Most union ...

  12. Britain’s immigration system to mimic Australia

    horrifying experiences of detainees on Nauru, particularly women and children. The report highlighted that ... Anti-racism Imperialism & war Refugees & migrants Reanna Smith Asylum seekers & ... Vote Leave campaign in 2016 and echoed by Boris Johnson during his bid to become Prime Minister. On its ...

  13. Turkey: War between governing factions opens space for the left

    religious ruling class since the Gezi uprising in May last year. There is now an open and brutal war between ... two governing factions. This will likely escalate after the local government elections on March 30. ... of power. The CHP is applying strong pressure on Onder to withdraw his candidacy in their favour. The ...

  14. Gazan activist: Despite Israel's crimes, we are not defeated

    and development. This war is not only a war on Hamas, this war is an attack on the entire Palestinian ... people. Unfortunately, the international media describe the aggression on Gaza as an equal war and present ... Gaza in groups to act as human rights defenders, and to document and report on the war crimes committed ...

  15. AFGHANISTAN: This war is a fraud

    American-sponsored "loose federation" to run Afghanistan. The "war on terrorism" is a cover for ... natural resources in or near their countries. There is no war on terrorism. If there was, the Royal ... BY JOHN PILGER LONDON β€” The war against terrorism is a fraud. After three weeks' bombing, not ...

  16. The anti-war movement in a military town

    prepared a statement that his family read on his behalf, reiterating his position opposing the war and ... Lou Plummer, Fayetteville, North Carolina On the day after his 19th birthday in 1966, my father ... to Europe in World War Two. By 1969, having left the guard, Dad was in Vietnam with the Fourth ...

  17. John Pilger: Why we must prosecute war criminals

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are ... Ali told me that in 1999, and today his warning is irrefutable. β€œBefore the Gulf war,” he said, β€œwe ... Many had neuroplastoma. β€œBefore the war, we saw only one case of this unusual tumour in two years,” she ...

  18. Black Wave tracks conflicts across the Islamic world

    people and enforce segregation of men and women in public. Women were banned from appearing on TV. Saudi ... PDPA government, which had progressive policies on issues such as women's rights and land reform, ... terrorist attacks on Sunnis. The result was sectarian war. Syria In 2011, there was an uprising against the ...

  19. UNITED STATES: The future of anti-war movement

    that we were pointing out before the war have become more known β€” that all this was based on ... war β€” when literally millions of people around the world took to the streets on February 14-16 β€” this ... to US troops unleashed a tide of propaganda that put the anti-war movement on the defensive. The ...

  20. Sudan: War, injustice cause secession

    on the people of the south. In the first north-south civil war from 1955 to 1972, as many as half ... continued the war on the south and the implementation of sharia law. In 1988, 250,000 people in the south ... rights. The war on the south was rigorously pursued. The SPLM maintained strong support in the south, ...

  21. IRAQ: US war creates humanitarian crisis

    which may have an impact on the population for years, even decades, to come. This crisis is not just ... a medium- or long-term consequence of the war β€” it is unfolding hour by hour, particularly in the poorer ... British forces. Although the final toll of the invasion on the Iraqi people is not known, there is ...

  22. Letter from the US: Anti-war anger in the heartland

    Anti-war anger in the heartland By Barry Sheppard "One, two, three four! We don't want ... your racist war!", was the shout that greeted US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as she took ... "town meeting" to build support for war against Iraq. Albright, defence (sic) secretary William ...

  23. AFGHANISTAN: Rival patrons fuel potential civil war

    BY EVA CHENG The Northern Alliance on November 12 created a huge problem for the United States by ... The Taliban still holds key cities in the south. A drawn-out war is still not out of the question. ... More US bombing could weaken the Taliban in these places, but on its own that will not defeat the ...

  24. The war against the disadvantaged

    against another. Governments may call this grand policy the "war on drugs" or the "war on ... crime", but it's not. It's a war on neighbourhoods and people designated as ... estate for Algerian migrants on the outskirts of Paris, the governments of all the major industrialised ...

  25. ο»ΏNow Turkey is bombing Kurdish-led revolutionaries in Syria β€” with Western complicity

    Imperialism & war Democracy Tony Iltis Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Women ... 's Protection Units (YPJ) People's Defense Units (YPG) Turkish war planes launched air strikes against ... Syria and Iraq on April 24. For months local and foreign forces have been closing in on the main ISIS ...

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