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1. Vale Fabian John LoSchiavo: a gentle satirist for queer acceptance

   much less interesting places after the unexpected death of Fabian LoSchiavo on May 11 at his home by ... He went to study at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), focusing on archives, and started to ... and conferences. He came to the morning march on June 24, 1978, with a sign saying “Gay, Free and C of ...

2. Palestine Solidarity Conference draws widespread support

   Imperialism & war Michael Bull Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) Zionism Palestine ... activists. Encouragingly many young activists attended and, notably, young Palestinian women. The conference, ... video link. Senator Lidia Thorpe, on the opening plenary “Organising for Palestine on Stolen Land” said ...

3. US, Europe greenlight Israel’s latest Gaza massacre

   Imperialism & war Middle East National liberation Ali Abunimah Israel's occupation and ... settlements 2023-25 Israeli genocide on Gaza As the toll of death, injury and destruction rose in Gaza on ... August 6, the second day of Israel’s surprise attack on the territory, United States President Joe ...

4. John Pilger: The war on Venezuela is built on lies

   laugh, address an urban land council on subjects ranging from homelessness to illegal war. That day, they ... was "too difficult" to be on two marches in one day. A war has been declared on Venezuela, ... seemed from a nearby banyan, made a long, critical speech on the subject of irrigation; Chavez took ...

5. Afghanistan: Violence against women on the rise

   Parliamentary Commission on Women’s Affairs, agrees, stating that the failure to prosecute the accused has ... Imperialism & war Workers & unions Lynette J. Dumble Back in October 2001, the US-led ... girls and women of an infamously cruel brand of misogyny. But the Taliban’s violent oppression was not ...

6. Women take on BHP and win — a feminist herstory that needs telling

   well-paid jobs. We took on BHP and won jobs for women. I’m now a retired Australian Workers Union (AWU) ... Two-thirds of young women were unemployed, others survived on piece work — sewing in backyard “factories” ... had to take on women workers, because they were telling us "there are no jobs for women". We ...

7. Vale Fred Moore, 1922-2022

   nothing.” Fred always had a focus on women, those who suffered so much when their families were impacted by ... knew whether he was going to come home. [There was always] a great strain on the women, hearing the ... “Pop”. Fred reflected on the important role of Aboriginal women. “But the great strength lay with the ...

8. 10 new albums that fight for your rights

   joined oppressed women worldwide in marching for women’s rights on International Women’s Day. To mark the ... lonnie_holley_-_oh_me_oh_my.jpg 1. LONNIE HOLLEY- OH ME OH MY  On March 11, a song by a group of men convicted for the January 6, ... 2021 attack on the US Capitol, featuring former President Donald Trump, reached the top spot on the ...

9. Justice out of reach for Japanese war-time rape victims

   History Feminism Imperialism & war Melanie Barnes comfort women Tokyo A photo exhibition in ... 1991, almost 50 years after the end of the war, that women started speaking out about what happened to ... attention to their case. A 1996 report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women ...

10. Afghanistan: Charge politicians and generals responsible for war crimes

    Imperialism & war Pip Hinman Brereton report War crimes War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) ... were committed. The military higher-ups have been so intent on covering up the admitted war crimes that ... dirty war has very deliberately been conducted in secret. Australia joined the United States-led war on ...

11. Ecuador’s neoliberal war on public sector worsens COVID-19 catastrophe

    a more accurate picture of the catastrophe on April 10. On that day, the total of those infected and dead ... the international media and the medical staff on the ground, who have reportedly been terrorised and ... the initial response of the government has been to blame the appearance of the viral horror on Correa ...

12. No war on Iran

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis US aggression against Iran The United States military strike on ... need more resources spent on firefighters and communities, not on wars or fighter planes. “The entire ... al-Muhandis and Iran’s retaliation against two US military bases in Iraq on January 8 brought the World to the ...

13. Sign-on statement: ‘Stop Turkey’s war on Afrin and Rojava’

    freedoms for women. It poses no threat whatsoever to Turkey, except in the example it gives to the world on ... how democracy, tolerance and women’s rights can be achieved in the Middle East. We therefore call on ... is being circulated by Australians for Kurdistan. You can sign on at the website here. * * * As ...

14. Let’s just call it a war

    books is the use of the word “war” to describe what went on after the British invasion. White Australia ... a squeamishness about the use of the word war. Gapps notes a 1970's account of Windradyne that focused on ... Wiradyuri country. It was a war with many lives were lost on both sides. One day, writes Gapps at the end of ...

15. French fascism and the revolt against Macron

    about violence against women, and so on. This will continue and the whole of the left must respond. With ... two years longer before retirement took place on April 13, with demonstrations in hundreds of towns. ... and Brest were thoroughly blockaded and more than 200 demonstrations were held across the country on ...

16. Cover up of civilian deaths from US airstrikes exposed

    a system of impunity…” War on terror continues Reading through the series, there is one inescapable ... the war. Under US occupation, Afghanistan’s economy became dependent on funding from the US — and ... Imperialism & war Middle East North America Barry Sheppard drone strikes Afghanistan Syria San ...

17. Australian War Memorial: from keeper of the flame to hider of shame?

    Boeing War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) The big brand theme park that is the Australian War Memorial (AWM), ... Imperialism & war William De Maria Australian War Memorial weapons manufacturers BAE Systems ... bankrolled by international arms manufacturers, is an object lesson in dishonesty. Conceived during World War ...

18. West could have prevented deadly ISIS prison breakout in northeast Syria

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East National liberation Peter Boyle Islamic ... State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) The ... recent Islamic State (ISIS) attack on the al-Sina’a prison in Hesekê, northeast Syria, made headlines ...

19. Australians say 'Stop Turkey's war on Afrin and Rojava' — add your name to the sign-on statement

    freedoms for women. It poses no threat whatsoever to Turkey, except in the example it gives to the world on ... how democracy, tolerance and women’s’ rights can be achieved in the Middle East. We therefore call on ... Imperialism & war International solidarity Democracy Refugees & migrants Afrin Rojava As ...

20. Iran and Turkey deport more than 240,000 Afghan refugees

    Afghanistan: Hazaras in Kabul appeal for protection, visas Afghanistan: Hazara women protest attacks on ... Imperialism & war Middle East Refugees & migrants Ben Radford Turkey Iran Taliban The ... two-thirds were deported on chartered and scheduled flights. Ali Hekmat, an aid worker in Turkey helping ...

21. Stories of Vietnamese women in the struggle for liberation

    2020, 342 pp., $29.99 The Saigon Sisters, Privileged Women in the Resistance By Patricia D. Norland ... colonialism and then the US-led invasion. The two books’ value is in highlighting the strength of women in the ... grew up in northern Vietnam surrounded by the devastation the war left in its wake. She worked as ...

22. Three months of Taliban occupation: Barbarism unlimited

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Media Middle East Sports Women Yasmeen Afghan ... stopped Everything vanished into thin air on August 15. Afghanistan’s heart stopped beating. Its women ... the universities run by the government or in private. Women were in positions of decision-making, they ...

23. Internationalism during the Spanish Civil War

    Books & music Europe History Alex Salmon Spanish Civil War International brigades Books and ... reviews The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War by Giles Tremlett London, ... July 1936. In the International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, Spanish based ...

24. The women of Kurdistan stand in solidarity with the women of Ireland – and call for a Yes vote to Repeal the 8th

    Qatar in its restrictions on women’s rights to basic reproductive health. Since Syria has similar ... reflected more broadly on how limits to women’s bodily autonomy relate to the imposition of capitalism and ... to focus on the trauma of ISIS sexual violence, reinforcing a narrative of women as “weak victims”, ...

25. Far-right censure motion: Theatre of the grotesque staged in Spanish Congress

    development; women are not having enough children; housing is impossibly expensive; crime is on the increase, ... On that day Vox, the ultra-right party directly descended from the 1939‒75 dictatorship of Francisco ... also an opportunity for the economics professor to hold a master class before a very large public on ...

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