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1. Laughter and ideology: life 3km away from ISIS

   Imperialism & war Socialism International solidarity National liberation Hawzhin Azeez Islamic ... State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Kobanê This ... frontline. We entered the base after receiving permission from the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) sniper ...

2. More than 80 cities worldwide mark Kobane Day

   Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units ... (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Tens of thousands of people have rallied worldwide to demand ... cities in more than 20 countries on November 1, with organisers calling for renewed international support ...

3. On the box

   On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ... broadcasts every Monday at 8pm. Phone 9633 6976 to contact the producers or make a donation. On Dangerous ... until Mandela's election to the presidency in 1994. SBS, Friday, March 5, 8pm. Women Making the ...

4. The magnificence and the tragedy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party

   Rainbow Coalition included street gangs that had previously been warring with each other, like the Crowns ... several fold. That united front work put Hampton on the radar of arch-reactionary FBI boss J Edgar Hoover. ... working-class movement dangerous to US capitalism — a “messiah”. Black leaders on Hoover’s “messiah” list, which included ...

5. Kurdish journalist on Rojava's inspiring revolution

   war. Right now, IS is selling women from Sinjar in their slave markets and this is happening in the ... 21st century! Their attacks target women systematically. War thereby affects women twice over. ... they can be found on the front lines becomes clearer. The women who are fighting define this revolution ...

6. Calls for a ban on the burqa help the racists

   stopping, instead of supporting, the 10-year-long war in Afghanistan where women’s rights are going from bad ... trivialise the war against the people of Afghanistan, which women bear the brunt of. Feminists have fought ... Feminism Anti-racism Pip Hinman Gadigal Country/Sydney I do not support women being forced to wear ...

7. Fighting racism on campus

   the so-called war on terror and to undermine the solidarity that many Australians have felt with the ... a "politically motivated attack on students who have been campaigning against Israel's wars on Lebanon and ... Emma Clancy, Sydney Against the backdrop of Israel's brutal wars in Lebanon and Palestine, ...

8. West Papua’s highway of blood

   strategies that he had publicity photographs taken of him astride his motorbike on the highway. But that ... Indonesians brought troops and military aircraft to the Highlands that “did not play by these rules”. On ... phosphorous grenades or bomblets that inflict horrible injuries on the populace,” writes Martinkus. The ...

9. On the box

   On the box Water, The Drop Of Life: A Price To Pay — Reveals the nature and politics of water ... transportation, and its impact on a growing number of people and enterprises around the world. SBS, Friday, July ... elected to the Australian parliament. ABC, Friday, July 9, 6pm. Women Film Desire — Explores contemporary ...

10. United States: Republicans step up racist, anti-democratic attacks

    The right-wing cultural war in the United States is not an academic debate about race, history and ... youth, and for women’s right to abortion and jobs. The Republican Party has turned to a cult figure, ... traces of bamboo on last year’s ballots, seemingly trying to prove a conspiracy theory that the election ...

11. Write on: letters to the editor

    Merkenich's article on Star Wars, Episode 1 (GLW, July 7) raised some interesting issues about racial ... whatever other party has the goods. Shara Little Spring Hill Qld [Abridged.] Racism and Star Wars Mary ... as eager to provoke another "cold war". In the Australian media, we've had the recent ...

12. 10 new albums to help heal the world

    gojira.jpg 1. GOJIRA- FORTITUDE  On May 1, a march in Sydney for International Workers' Day brought the ... $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money to keep oil refineries open. On May 19, it said it would use ... Gojira. Singer Joe Duplantier, who would find his hands covered in oil after playing on the beach as ...

13. Rojava's democratic, feminist revolution provides hope among Syria's horror

    women's councils don't decide on general issues — that's what the people's councils are ... for. They discuss issues that are specifically about women … They have veto power on issues concerning ... women.” The emphasis on women's liberation is reflected in the high visibility of female fighters in ...

14. John Pilger: Eyewitness to the agony of Julian Assange

    deaths of 12 million men, women and children in the “war on terror” — most of it behind a façade of ... investigative journalist Nicky Hager, who worked with Assange on the Afghanistan and Iraq war leaks, described ... a world war if we allow it. Little of this menace is reflected in the media. WikiLeaks, on the other hand, ...

15. On the box

    government's desire to employ high-tech systems in its "war on terror" — from ultra-sensitive airport ... On the box Steps for the Future: A Miner's Tale — From seven different countries in southern ... HIV/AIDS. SBS, Tuesday, June 15, 1.25am. Cutting Edge: The Perfect War — Two-part series looks at the US ...

16. On the box

    SBS, Friday, March 12, 8pm. Russia's War: Blood on the Snow — This episode details the Nazi thrust ... On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ... follows four women in the workplace who have chosen to fight back against persistent sexual harassment, ...

17. Helen Garner's book: an attack on feminism

    feminism post-second wave, and the attacks on programs and policies designed to assist women in achieving ... a sexual harassment case at Melbourne University's Ormond College in 1992. Two young women who alleged ... women and young feminists. Her accusations have drawn much acclaim. Four Corners devoted a program to ...

18. Syria: New horrors as outside powers worsen crisis

    Democracy Imperialism & war National liberation Tony Iltis People's Defense Units (YPG) ... Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Free Syrian Army (FSA) Bashar al-Assad Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ... Another round of international talks on Syria, and a ceasefire, have come and gone. The ...

19. Heaven or Hell? Books look back on the German Democratic Republic

    Imperialism & war Workers & unions Socialism Democracy Economy Education Housing ... studied in the GDR between 1964 and '68 and then worked on GDR television for 20 years. De la Motte ... the USSR after World War II. It was established in response to the Allies’ 1949 decision to create ...

20. Kobane: Epic resistance increases pressure on US and Turkey

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Democracy National liberation Dave Holmes Kobane’s ... prolonged, unyielding resistance — especially the heavy frontline involvement of women — has won admiration ... so. Every day the resistance holds out increases the pressure on Turkey and the imperialist powers. ...

21. On the box

    Wednesday, June 6, 3pm. The Chaser's War on Everything — Australian political satire. ABC, Wednesday, ... On the box Cutting Edge: Africa, America's New Oil Target — As world oil reserves decline, ... — A dramatic depiction of the oppression and discrimination against women in Iran. SBS, Wednesday, June 6, 1pm. ...

22. Syria: New democratic front formed

    Democracy Imperialism & war National liberation Kerry Smith Rojava People's Defense Units ... (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Syrian revolution The ... Democratic Forces of Syria held a founding meeting on October 12 and released a final declaration three days ...

23. Comrades! The fascinating life stories of Australian communists

    passion for a world without war, without divisions of race and class, for a society based on cooperation ... dissolution in 1991. The stories, outlining the lives of communist women and men, reveal their commitment to ... movements for progressive social change over the party's 70-year existence. They worked on the wharves, ...

24. Rojava’s revolutionary university

    Education Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East ANF English Autonomous ... put on scientific research. The most important problems faced by the administration are financial and ... Council, the University Council, the Women's Council and the Student Council. The university's ...

25. Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution

    counter-revolution.” The revolutionaries “could feel it all around us, on the watch, looking for our weakness, our ... mistakes, our follies, skilfully making us stumble, ready at the slightest lapse to pounce on us and tear us ... evidenced. From the beginning, the Bolsheviks ruled essentially on an emergency basis. For example, they had ...

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