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  1. Why the US let Japanese war criminals go free

    documented the gruesome story in Factories of Death. The primarily Chinese victims, but also Korean and ... killers. Some victims had vivisection performed on them. Those that did not die from the infections were no ... laboratory had ready access to thousands of prisoners — Chinese resistance fighters, Communist guerrillas, ...

  2. Strike on March 5 to bring the troops home

    a “die-in” at the Australian Defence Forces Association offices in Brisbane, followed by a carnival featuring ... launch a war! Government documents uncovered by ALP leader Simon Crean show that the HMAS Kanimbla, ... hundreds of thousands more could die. More Australians — most of them young people — have been sent to ...

  3. John Lennon and the sixties

    the Yankee aggressor army and his constant support to the Vietnamese resistance; his support for the ... to expel him from the US. These agencies still keep secret the documents proving the tenacious ... York to express a pain that time does not placate feared that the spirit of the sixties may die with ...

  4. Xanana: Time for Jakarta to recognise defeat

    cannot be construed as being credible. I am resistance commander Xanana Gusmao, leader of the Maubere ... resistance against the cowardly and shameful invasion of 7 December 1975 and the criminal and illegal ... occupation of East Timor for the last 17 years. On 22 November last year in Denpasar, I signed a document in ...

  5. Israel tightens the noose: 'suffer or leave'

    armed Palestinian resistance groups, and providing the basis for negotiations regarding the release of ... died as a result of heat and absence of shelter". Israel also controls and patrols the air space ... crushing the resistance to the occupation of the territories is the key goal of the Israeli government. ...

  6. Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal

    Iraqis who resist in a city that heroically defied Saddam Hussein; they were merely "insurgents ... of 2700 attacks every month by the resistance, six can be credited to the infamous al Zarqawi. In ... journal, the Lancet, of a study estimating that 100,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the Anglo-American ...

  7. CHECHNYA: Between war and peace

    was shot down near Khankala, and 118 service personnel were killed — the same number as died on the ... resistance had always regarded him as a serious problem, suspecting him of setting out to divide and ... were incapable of crushing the resistance, but neither could the insurgents gain the upper hand over ...

  8. Whitlam on East Timor: distorting the truth

    scale: at most, 2000 people died. Whitlam felt he could say in 1994, after 100 times that number have ... 1982]", meaning no doubt the well-documented starvation that was occurring in the prison camps of occupied ... interview with Friends of East Timor, Konis Santana, the leader of the armed resistance in East Timor and ...

  9. CUBA: Washington's objective is to "cause hunger, desperation and overthrow the government"

    weaken Cuban economic life", read an important official document signed by state department official ... Roberto Torna died and the other crew members were cast into the sea in rubber dinghies without food or ... Cuban food harvests to fail", explained a US internal government document discussing "Task ...

  10. BRITAIN: 'There's a mass feeling against the war'

    lies], a lot of letters, emails and other documents have been released. This is very unusual. Such ... government documents are usually embargoed for 30 years. These documents reveal a sense of real panic in the ... Blair government. British troops are dying in Iraq and the reality of the occupation is coming home to ...

  11. World War II — Was it right to fight?

    Normandy was timed to prevent the popular, anti-fascist and socialist resistance movements from taking ... the Italian resistance until US forces arrived. The threat of socialism, of real freedom and ... planning documents, and which Broome and Darwin experienced with air attacks during the war), in which case ...

  12. Fidel Castro on Copenahgen: 'A moment of truth'

    His phrases were remarkable. He challenged a document proposed to the Summit by the Danish minister ... die from curable diseases?" "Actually, 2.6 billion have no access to health services." ... their living conditions they are expelled, with those papers known as expatriation documents […] but ...

  13. Abortion debate reveals capitalist contradictions

    investigation. Reist’s book Giving Sorrow Words documents 18 women’s tales of grief upon having an abortion. ... a socialist and feminist youth organisation, Resistance stands for true liberation for women. We recognise ...

  14. Racism in Australia: 1788 to today

    welfare was provided and many Aboriginal workers and their dependents, both on and off reserves, died of ... inferior and therefore "dying race". Institutionalisation Between 1890 and 1911, the ideology of ... society, thereby allowing capitalist development to proceed unhindered by resistance from traditional ...

  15. Remembering Berta Cáceres, assassinated Honduras indigenous and environmental leader

    foundation, she described how she helped organize indigenous communities in Honduras to resist a hydro dam on ... grassroots activists in Honduras, who will carry on the campaign she fought and died for." Meanwhile, ... in 2014. In total, the group Global Witness documented the murders of at least 116 environmental ...

  16. Letter from the US: Why police can kill with impunity

    not guilty. This was the case in Baltimore when Freddy Gray died while in the hands of five officers ... even been documented by the federal government, even if it fails to act on its own evidence. Bringing ... War, the second American Revolution. The resistance of the slave owners was manifest in the ferocity of ...

  17. Letter from the US: Fresh crimes in 'war on terror' exposed

    Special Forces. The second documents how doctors and other medical personnel “participated in cruel, ... a hunger striker jailed indefinitely without charge was to die. That these hunger strikers are willing to ... The Party — the Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, available from Resistance Books. Read more of ...

  18. How the Anzac myth hides history

    Anzacs fought and died for, it was not free speech. There are degrees in suppression of free speech. ... Papuan prisoners. Dwyer quotes the testimony of Australian interpreter Allan Clifton to document the gang ... positive sides to Australian history worth celebrating. The centenary of working class resistance to war is ...

  19. Bahrain: Grand Prix races on people's blood

    February 14 Youth Coalition called The National Week of Resistance against the Occupier to commemorate the ... Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) report documents Al-Khawaja’s subjection to physical and sexual ... start of the Bahraini uprising, more than 80 civilians have died. Between 1600 and 4000 protesters have ...

  20. Inside Washington's Iraqi ministry of terror

    of Iraqis AP reported had died in war-related violence in January — the month before the US ... at suspected supporters of the Sunni-based anti-occupation resistance movement. It reported that most ... officials... say he is now working out of Maliki's security bureau. "US military documents viewed by ...

  21. Ireland: Colonial troops unlikely to be missed

    "The hundreds of references to the IRA as compared to the document's almost total disregard of ... demonstration in Derry, killing 13 unarmed civilians; a 14th later died from his wounds. Operation Motorman ... mass support for the IRA's campaign of armed resistance to the occupation and flooding the ...

  22. SUDAN: Darfur's 'human-made' disaster

    been linked directly to Sudan's security services by documents publicised on July 20 by Human ... Development, that 350,000 more people could die even if adequate humanitarian aid arrives. In addition, there ... months. These factors led to the formation of two resistance movements, the Sudanese Liberation ...

  23. IRAQ: Bush, Blair, Howard and the Downing Street memo

    the Iraq invasion are once more under scrutiny. The top-secret document records the minutes of a July ... control of oil resources would "sell" as good reasons to send soldiers off to die. In November ... a primarily indigenous resistance movement. Lately the Pentagon has been developing a morbid obsession with ...

  24. Joesef Isak: A life of struggle

    are that you would not die in these safe houses. Nobody wanted to have to yield to the pain of being ... Mitra has become an icon of resistance to authoritianism, are now trying to recover. Hasta Mitra has ... translation of CIA and US State department documents relating to the 1965 mass murders. [Isak will also be ...

  25. Che lives!

    The US government openly supported the coup and documents released under the US Freedom of Information ... that saved his life, saying "There, facing the death squad, I thought of Che...how men die ... executive of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, which is affiliated to the Socialist Alliance.] ...

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