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  1. From the Tulsa massacre to George Floyd: Race, class and state in the United States

    shed light on how race continues to frame political debate and politics in the United States. First, ... Secondly, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of May 31 to June 1, 1921, revealed current fault lines on ... exception to the norm. Cops who kill Black men or women are rarely charged, much less convicted. Police and ...

  2. Don't mention the war

    recruiters, "whatever you do, don't mention the war". Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, the editor of ... 10 Excellent Reasons not to Join the Military, does mention the war (in Iraq and elsewhere), in ... reason we have a military is to be prepared to fight and win wars... It's not a jobs program". ...

  3. Anti-Nazi resistance in Germany

    Anti-racism Books & music Europe Far right History Imperialism & war Alex Salmon anti-Nazi ... Catrine Clay’s father who fought in that war. In Good Germans, Clay has found that, contrary to this view, ... Hitler became Chancellor on January 30, 1933. However, once Hitler took office, the Nazis swiftly acted ...

  4. Time wars

    Donaldson presents in his new book on time and its discontents. Official unemployment in Australia is glued ... pitched in, he also notes, trading off the gains from past time wars in the misconceived quest for greater ... particularly women workers with their double shift of paid work and domestic work. Donaldson also has a good ...

  5. The movement against the Vietnam War- its lessons for today

    have the April anti-war actions set for midday on Friday, April 30, rather than on a Saturday, as had ... far fewer people than the 150,000 who marched against the war in capital cities around the country on ... "have shown themselves to be the best way of drawing the working class into action on the war issue. In ...

  6. War and occupation are queer issues

    and activist planning meetings: l <~>August 5: protest against the war on Lebanon. These ... anti-war demo people gathered on the opposite side of the road and shouted in response to the people ... racists, the majority of people actually opposed the war on Iraq β€” here the majority were for the war in ...

  7. Telling the truth about the Spanish Civil War

    mid-December Reviewed by Peter Boyle The Spanish Civil War of 1936-38 was one of the great historical events in ... the 20th century. It was built upon great heroism and sacrifice on the part of Spanish workers and ... volunteers in the fight against Franco's fascists. Ken Loach's Land and Freedom is based on the ...

  8. Labor, war and illusions of Australian democracy

    did not oppose the Vietnam War, at first. The Labor mainstream got on board as the anti-war movement ... a possible US nuclear strike on Arab states during the 1973 Middle East war. The lesson for the current ... anti-war movement? Neither major party can be trusted on war, yet both can be pressured. Anti-war movements ...

  9. War criminal Rajapaksa to visit Perth

    called for protests when Sri Lanka’s β€œwar criminal” president, Mahinda Rajapaksa comes to Perth in late ... of committing β€œwar crimes” and β€œcrimes against humanity,” said Professor Damien Kingsbury, the ... at an international conference on β€œAccountability In Sri Lanka: Common Justice In The Commonwealth” ...

  10. Norman Mailer and the 'good war'

    Pakistan and an endless "war on terror", would prefer to bury. [Martin Smith is a member of Iraq ... Martin Smith The media memorialised Norman Mailer after his death on November 10 with accolades ... his service in the army in the Philippines and during the Second World War, and the disaffection he ...

  11. Anti-war activist stands for parliament

    people of the real reasons for the war on Iraq Β— not only oil, but Western interests in all their forms, ... war, and also to write 'No war' on the ballot paper so that we can actually turn the NSW ... a time of war, this has never been more crucial. It has been estimated that if Australia goes to war, it ...

  12. Interview: US unionists organise against the war

    the end of the united front on the war by US unions, which had either remained silent on the issue or ... unions", Black explained. The Bush administration's wars have had an impact on the US working class. ... "push candidates to explain their positions on the war, plan and timetable for getting troops and ...

  13. Resistance trends in Turkey

    called for a boycott of Flormar and Yves Rocher cosmetic products. The women workers have employed the ... danger for minimal compensation and are easily provoked to anger. Recently, the decision on the Soma ... rule. Students and women As in many countries, the socialist movement draws considerable ranks from the ...

  14. Indonesia: a system built on corruption

    The leak last week of an Australian government document on corruption involving the family of ... Indonesian President Suharto tells only a small part of the story. A 300-page report on the human rights ... well as Setia Kawan, the first attempt at a free trade union in Indonesia, and women's, consumers ...

  15. Willie McBride vs the fortunate sons β€” anti-war song controversies prove popular culture matters

    a self-deprecating reference to the anti-war songs on his 2004 album Real Gone ― inspired by the Bush ... adminstration's wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. Waits noted: β€œBut then I think, look how important soul music was ... spear. But folks in the arts ― it's their job to put a human face on the war.” Clearly no song, no ...

  16. Campaigning to end the war in Sri Lanka

    Party? The NSSP was formed in 1977. It is a party based on the working class, which aims to unite people ... you organise around that? What we do is stand firmly on the position of self-determination for the ... campaign to stop the war. The NSSP is organising intellectuals, the clergy, the workers and the youth and ...

  17. Stop the Afghan war β€” protest Obama

    and the "war on terror" have been the justification for the US flexing its military might. ... Rupen Savoulian Helen Patterson An article posted at RAWA.org on March 10 by Marc W. Herold said ... that on February 27, the US/NATO forces occupying Afghanistan "killed three people, including two ...

  18. US officer: 'Why I disagree with Bush's war for oil'

    "war on terror"? The current "war on terror" has started its descent into a war on civil ... Brayden joined the US army not thinking he'd ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn't ... entertained the idea that he would turn against a war. He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank ...

  19. Stop the Afghan war β€” bring the troops home

    a significant escalation of the US war on Pakistan. The NYT noted: " The extensive missile strikes being ... Tim Dobson On the March 16, an Australian soldier, Corporal Matthew Hopkins, died after a fierce ... people of Afghanistan β€” the full death total of which no one has yet to counted. On every level, the ...

  20. UNITED STATES: The Iraq war and the 2004 elections

    going on in Iraq is not merely an occupation; it is a very active war. So long as there is a guerrilla ... war going on in Iraq, neither the UN nor the Arab League nor anyone else with a shred of common sense ... and destruction visited on "those people" by 13 years of war and sanctions, and with ...

  21. On the box

    women journalists covering the war in Iraq and other perilous assignments. SBS, Tuesday, April 29, 10pm. ... On the box Black Soldier Blues β€” Black GIs from the US during WWII were initially turned away from ... the Madrid bombings of March 11, 2004. SBS, Monday, April 28, 1.30pm. Taking on the Taliban β€” British ...

  22. AWB and Iraq: How Howard waged a war for corporate profit

    the US-led war in Iraq has cost the lives of 655,000 Iraqis. On November 23, the United Nations ... secure wheat contracts, cleared PM John Howard and his ministers of any wrongdoing. On November 27, ... necessarily build on preceding events or circumstances so as to magnify or render more important the second or ...

  23. AFGHANISTAN: 'This war must be stopped'

    Cuba's foreign minister to the UN General Assembly on November 13.] The war in Afghanistan must be ... cooperation. It has rather imposed its war on a unilateral basis and stated that whoever does not second them ... that this war has targeted children, the civilian population and the International Red Cross hospitals ...

  24. Gerry Adams: '1916 Rising was right β€” and we still need a just republic'

    of poorly equipped Irish men and women took on the might of the largest empire the world had ever ... Easter Week 1916.The people of the north were abandoned. The Free State was harsh on the poor, on women ... after 66 days on hunger strike. We remember Bobby and his comrades and the blanket men and the women in ...

  25. Money for education- not war!

    lecturer never attends the class. On a good week, the students get to see a video of the lecturer ... presenting in Melbourne the week before. On a bad week, students only get a sound recording. This example is ... every 20 students. The exception to the rule is the war-training institution, the Australian Defence ...

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