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1. Scottish Socialist Alliance plans campaigns

   Scottish Militant Labour, Communists, Greens, prominent trade unionists, environmentalists, animal rights ... to the establishment parties come election time. Right now, politics is dominated by the countdown to ...

2. Scargill calls for new socialist party

   defeated the poll tax, the anti-motorway and animal rights bodies, anti-nuclear campaigners, and those ... the party might from time to time adopt right-wing policies, it has always been possible to fight to ...

3. Action updates

   speak-out in the mall. Organisers from University of Wollongong Student Animal Rights Activists said they ... support the rights of recently arrived Chinese refugees who have been the target of racist vilification ...

4. Ten new political albums worth a listen- January 2015

   issue often neglected on the left- animal rights. Over a typically catchy, pop-punk hook, it asks: ... concerts for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The music is as timeless as the message. ... Rights spells out in depressing detail how racism and persecution exist in every country. A similar ...

5. Zirin: Corrupt, brutal Games with gives for everyone to oppose

   activist was jailed for “swearing in public”. What about animal rights? Well, Russian Olympic officials ... indigenous rights. In Atlanta, the American Civil Liberties Union was up in arms about the jailing of ... heard carping about "human rights" and the crushing of dissent. In London in 2012, there were ...

6. Letters from Nauru refugees: 'We are not being given fair treatment'

   answers: 1. Presence of human rights organizations in Nauru. [Response]: Points raised for the purchase of ... concern The government of Australia and human rights There is a big difference between criminal and asylum ... all got together to declare that we will continue our gathering until getting our rights. The ...

7. ...and ain't I a woman: Back to the future?

   whether violence or cooperation is appropriate. It's quite all right for women to castigate their ... children. In the past, the same right was unchallenged for men over their wives. We find that explanations ... — to confuse and divide. Explanations of natural difference are not only used by right-wing forces ...

8. Sanctuary victory: 'beginning of the end for whaling'

   largest living animals, growing to a length of 30 metres, may have dropped to a population level that is ... actual sightings in 12 years). Populations of blue, humpback, right, sei and fin whales have shown no ... signs of recovery despite the moratorium on whaling since 1985. In fact, right whales have been ...

9. Corporate piracy and genetics

   reproductive rights and access to social services. We can expect an erosion of personal privacy and ... reassemble the sequence in the right order. The company had 300 sequencing machines running 24 hours a day, ... biologist was granted the first patent for an animal, the "oncomouse", because it had been ...

10. Letters to the editor

    Save the Forest Party, Animal Liberation Party and Marine Environment Conservation Party should be ... policies giving equal consideration for all animals. They have not taken part in any of our public ... Nature Conservation Council of NSW Steve Ryan, The Wilderness Society Mark Pearson, Animal Liberation ...

11. New book looks at how corporate power is destroying agriculture — and how it can be changed

    land. It is supposed to increase intellectual property rights for farmers, but in reality it has ... space for the rise of right-wing parties such as One Nation. Rural and farming votes amount to 11% of ... alternatives to supermarkets, animal welfare, environmental protection, democratic community agricultural ...

12. Risdon Prison siege symptom of crisis

    are really about human rights and treating people like human beings rather than caging them like ... animals." Those of the prisoners' demands reported in the establishment media focused on the quality of ... fundamental changes were required. "Firstly, if you violate human rights today, you don't wait until ...

13. Rural workers demand labour code

    months of harassment by right-wing farmers and police. The National Land Committee (NLC), an independent ... abduction and even the murder of rural people. Tenants are denied even basic workers' rights. Tenants ... rights. They rely on the land on which they live and work for subsistence. They are paid little or no ...

14. Ten of 2016’s best political albums

    sky, I wanna burn the breeze,” she sang. “I wanna see the animals die in the trees. Oh let’s go, let’s ... released an album named after the right to bear arms that aimed to be “the soundtrack for the presidential ... level’s rising! The animals, the elephants, the polar bears are dying! Stop crying, start buying.” 8. ...

15. Farmers resist GM food contamination

    before tests are conducted on animals.   Greenpeace also accused the CSIRO of a conflict of interest for ... Australia. I don’t want to see my crops contaminated by GM wheat, as so many farmers are experiencing right ... Monsanto.   The intellectual property rights attached to GM crops pose a threat to farmers’ livelihoods and ...

16. West Papua: Indonesia uses soldier deaths to escalate conflict

    (Kopassus). This unit’s activities have drawn condemnation from human rights groups for atrocities committed ... political rights of the Papua nation for independence and to be fully sovereign so that they sit equal with ... Animals and food gardens are also being destroyed, sparking fears of an impending humanitarian disaster. ...

17. John Pilger: The beckoning of nuclear war

    sure. Animals live the longest. The war was over in a month. The US, Russia and China were the ... Russians conspired with Trump (reminiscent of the far-right smearing of John Kennedy as a “Soviet agent”), ... between Democrats and Republicans. The terms “left” and “right” are meaningless. Most of America’s modern ...

18. Exit Yeltsin

    of 1991, during the final months of Gorbachev's rule. From this point, rights and freedoms were ... the population. If this did not give him the legal right to act outside his formal powers, then in the ... extreme situation during that period he could at least claim a moral right. But the process that was ...

19. The secret war against the defenceless people of West Papua

    Papuans like animals. They kill us like animals. They have created militias and jihadis to do just that. ... Human Rights in West Papua, held in exile, heard from Eliezer Bonay, Indonesia's first governor of ... to a counter-hijack or hostage recovery threat". The files of human-rights organisations ...

20. PALESTINE: Israel's illegal occupation

    treat all Palestinians. I'm sorry to say this, but they would rather help an animal than an ... treatment of the Palestinians. Human rights groups run by Israelis have recorded hundreds of instances of ... for Human Rights, "because many people don't even bother to set out for hospital, knowing ...

21. Write on

    Professor Steven Rose (GLW #18) typically do), medical experimentation on animals is bad science. ... Thalidomide was tested on animals and declared safe, whilst penicillin would not have been developed if it had ... racist theories of intelligence. No one gets everything right — homeopathy advocates as well as ...

22. Deniers peddle climate science fiction

    given time, and we know that right now they cannot explain the rapid climate change we’re experiencing. ... Right now, the big climate forcings are human-caused greenhouse gases. Current warming does not fit the ... So-called C3 plants have the right enzymatic equipment to deal with higher CO 2 concentrations, but are not ...

23. US Supreme Court rules no patent on human genes

    although a number of organisations fighting for democratic and human rights, women groups and medical and ... test, a price out of reach for most women. Until now, Myriad Genetics owned the exclusive rights to do ... had the right to patent genes. An Australian company, Genetic Technologies, has an exclusive licence ...

24. 'Justice system a joke'-- US athletes respond to Trayvon Martin verdict

    a father!!! Some1 make sense of this verdict for me right now please!!! Don’t worry I’ll wait …” Others, in ... Vick, and the two-year sentence in Leavenworth he received for animal abuse, was on a lot of minds as ... right-wing athletes, I couldn’t find evidence of the horrific gloating seen in the darkest recesses of social ...

25. Indigenous activists send SOS for the Amazon

    rights as original peoples and environmental preservation at this year's edition of the WSF, which ... phenomenon. In this situation, indigenous people should have political participation as a right, not "as ... peoples' presence at the WSF, told IPS. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, approved by ...

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