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  1. From penal colony to penal powers: the right to strike

    workers have always resisted them. Historically, the justifications were for freedom from serfdom, forced ... labour or involuntary servitude. With the rise of British capitalism, workers formed unions and took ... does not censor the aims promoted by exercising the right to freedom of assembly, so it is not for it ...

  2. Was Rupert taking the piss?

    where men and women would rise in society not because they were born into privilege 鈥 but because they ... the fight for freedom of speech in Australia,鈥 he said. At this point the audience must have been ... to mention the commission also noted that the rise was in part due to more hours being worked by ...

  3. South Africa: 'Guns not butter' budget criticised

    inflation range. However, this may be difficult because of rising oil prices and the impact of the recent ... "debt reduction" this year, rising to R10 billion in 2002-3. In a ominous sign for public sector ... government's imposition of a below-inflation wage rise last year, public servants are likely to be subjected to ...

  4. Sri Lanka: One year on from war鈥檚 end

    island of Sri Lanka, rising above the fog of war to reveal two contrasting tales left behind in the ... have been annihilated in the final days of the war. But the yearning for freedom and equality, which ... fostered a generation of militancy and fuelled its rise up the ladder of infamy, continues to consume Tamil ...

  5. Turkey: Erdo臒an silences dissent

    Mazzamauro Freedom of speech in Turkey is deteriorating at a rate of knots. This week, a British academic was ... more than 10 press freedom violations over the past month alone, and 203 verified violations since May ... mapping violations of press freedom over the past two years. Their findings make uncomfortable reading. In ...

  6. Defeat of bid to weaken Racial Discrimination Act a win against racists

    jocks to re-legitimise racism and racist abuse. This campaign coincides with a rise in racist abuse and ... Meanwhile, many others have since been passed that have strongly restricted our freedom of speech and ... right-wing media simply for doing their job. The actual numbers of section 18C complaints, while rising ...

  7. Austria: Far right narrowly lose presidential vote

    beating far-right Freedom Party (FP脰) candidate Norbert Hofer with 50.3% of the vote. The FP脰, ... commander in chief of Austria's armed forces. The rise of the extreme right in Austria is part of ... right-wing populists and the far right is on the rise in nearly all European countries. In 2000, when the FP脰 ...

  8. A question of strategy

    can be achieved only by these people themselves. In the Soviet Union, Stalin's rise to power in ... record of the Bolsheviks (prior to the rise of Stalin), however, which Consciously Anarchists choose to ... policy was to allow full freedom of organisation of all political tendencies as long as they defended the ...

  9. 500 years of struggle

    for wage rises. The government responded brutally, causing a number of deaths and injuries to the ... aims to expand such basic freedoms and individual rights as the freedom to mobilise, associate and ... problems of society, there will be no peace in Guatemala. Until the people rise up there will be no ...

  10. Battlelines set for Catalonia's election showdown

    155. The Spanish PM added: 鈥淲e want to recover the Catalonia of everyone in democracy and freedom, and ... total rising from 52 to 55. The balance is held by Catalunya en Comu (CeC, Catalonia Together), ... in Catalan society in recent years alongside the rise of the independence movement. This has been ...

  11. Conference for people's power and women's liberation

    Australia, one of the 鈥渞ichest suburbs鈥 in the world, the political temperature is rising with the ... a woman鈥檚 right to live in freedom, without fear of rape and free from the patriarchal control of the family ... may be dressed 鈥 women have a right to freedom. And that freedom without fear is what we need to ...

  12. Full-blooded art, antiseptic gallery

    gateposts, it allows us to read the rise and fall of the century鈥檚 revolutionary sentiment. In the early 20th ... pre-capitalist, unalientated freedom of African art with the liberty beckoning via machine age technology and ... through to a sense of personal freedom by identification with black bebop jazz culture and bohemianism ...

  13. John Pilger: A strange case of liberal censorship

    administration in the tyrant鈥檚 rise to power and the devastation of Cambodia. Six months later, a PBS official ... cultural freedom, diversity and creativity鈥. Authors, film-makers, poets make their way to a sanctum of ... liberalism in a permanent state of war and the demise of cherished freedoms, such as the right to call ...

  14. John Pilger: Threat to Assange is a threat to us all

    meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in Western democracies. This is Assange鈥檚 final appeal ... revealed in secret Australian government documents released under freedom of information which describe the ... rise to power, Gillard attacked WikiLeaks as 鈥渋llegal鈥 and her Attorney-General threatened to withdraw ...

  15. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    habeus corpus, due process, freedom of speech and freedom of association rights 鈥 and even the power to ... substantially contributed to the appalling rise of "democratic tyranny" in Australia. We are indeed ... approaching an Orwellian 1984-style nightmare in which "war is peace", "freedom is ...

  16. SAUDI ARABIA: Royal reform?

    the rising dissatisfaction. Riyadh's support for Washington's violent foreign policy in the ... US President George Bush declared the US "will stand with the allies of freedom to support ... condemned for "pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people of the freedom they seek and ...

  17. And ain't i a woman?: Free Raihana Diani!

    prices of all the basic commodities have risen. Even before these rises, many of these goods were out of ... poverty while the freedom to articulate the peoples' aspirations suffers more and more suppression. ... head up high to face the regime and say: FREEDOM instead of POVERTY!" Raihana Diani is an ...

  18. Ireland's 'gentlemen prisoners'

    almost works. Devereux finds his "comparative freedom" as a "ticket-of-leave" convict ... is an implacable enemy of Irish freedom fighters and has his spies on the lookout for any excuse to ... Ireland's leaders came from the wealthy gentry. Their rising failed not only because of poor organisation ...

  19. Free speech and the far right

    parliament on August 19 鈥 denying no-one even the formal right to freedom of speech 鈥 they had to put up with ... back into the home by rising child-care costs 鈥 other than mass protest and strike actions. The right ... entrust our democratic freedoms to are the existing authorities and political system. We should ...

  20. Soweto Day celebrations 'disappointing'

    all rise to the challenge of the freedom that we have won. That challenge is to create a better life ... the anniversary of the beginning of the 1976 youth uprising and the revival of the freedom struggle ... The day marks the fearless contribution and sacrifice young people have made for freedom. That ...

  21. Dutch election: Wilders stalls, but left still faces a stronger right

    of Islamophobe Geert Wilders鈥 Party of Freedom (PVV) in the March 15 Dutch general election was ... a rise of only 3% (five seats). Given expectations it could have won the election, this was a setback. ... Party of Freedom and Democracy (VVD). The PVV only started to poll behind the VVD in the last 10 days of ...

  22. Ron Paul's progressive fans wrong

    Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, the Ron Paul Political Report and the Ron Paul Investment ... Paul鈥檚 ideas would illustrate how unfettered markets foster repression more than freedom. The obvious ... the far right is on the rise 鈥 and increasingly selling its message with anti-establishment聽rhetoric. ...

  23. Naomi Klein: We must look for answers to capitalism鈥檚 disasters

    really the rise of corporate power and the increasing role of corporations in every aspect of life. ... That鈥檚 really the story of the rise of branded people that Trump embodies 鈥 these lifestyle brands and ... that comes to mind would be the anti-Apartheid struggle and the Freedom Charter that was written [by ...

  24. Syria: Violence grows despite peace plan

    detained people, ensure freedom of movement for journalists and to respect freedom of association. It also ... forces, but with the rising militarisation of the conflict, government soldiers make up a greater ... expressed concern at the rising violence and human rights abuses by opposition forces, while saying the ...

  25. Fifty Years since 鈥楾he Feminine Mystique鈥

    a parallel here. McCarthyism took aim against freedom of speech and association; the feminine mystique bore ... down on women鈥檚 freedom to be themselves. A year after Friedan鈥檚 book appeared, I read an article by ... a new rise of feminism. When I joined the US Socialist Workers Party in 1959, I read Frederick Engels鈥 ...

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