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1. Pakistan: Jailed unionists speak on workers' rights, demand freedom

   government had issued a directive for wage rises by 17%. For two months, we had been waiting. We had been ... meeting with the factory owners, but when we saw that wage rises would never occur, they provoked ... our freedom. Pakistan April 14, 2012 918 Rana Riaz Ahmed, Akbar Ali Kamboh and Fazal Elahi outside ...

2. Iraq: ‘We have no freedom or justice’

   Adil, the president of the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) — one of the groups behind the protests — painted ... torture and deny freedom to people equally. There was no Sunni or Shi’a division. “The first government, ... Iraq, they want privatisation. “Now in the public sector there is no freedom of trade unions. There is ...

3. Syria: Repression, defiance rises

   kept Syria out of the International Monetary Fund. This led to the rise of crony capitalists such as ... Protest in Daraa, Syria on April 15. 'Syrians want democratic freedoms' World ...

4. Syria: Rising sectarian violence push by regime, West

   movement for freedom and democracy, which still rejects calls for military intervention, survives, but is ... activist with the Syrian Revolutionary Left, wrote on the Syria Freedom Forever blog on June 7, that the ...

5. Syria: Assad regime close to over amid rising violence

   a pluralistic, secular and democratic system of governance, based on public freedoms, as well as legal and ... they thought supported the other side.” Despite the rising war crimes by elements of the armed ...

6. Turkey launches genocidal invasion of Rojava

   into their own proxies and fuelled the rise of right-wing Islamist ideologies among them. However, this ... and social and economic justice, the rise of the armed group transformed the popular uprising into ... increasing violence, but was unable to hold its own without rising levels of support from Russia, Iran and ...

7. Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy

   down. Rise of ISIS The drip-feeding of military aid, and US ally Israel's interest in a weakened ... Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Freedom Party (AKP) lost its parliamentary majority in June ... to ISIS, AP reported the next day. The remainder were suspected leftists or Kurdish freedom movement ...

8. India: Communists organise to resist fascism

   the rise of far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The congress passed a resolution on culture and ... the face of an unmistakable rise of fascism in India,” CPI-ML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya ... soils depleted and toxic. Yields are declining catastrophically and cancer has become endemic. The rise ...

9. Raqqa largely liberated, Rojava revolution holds commune elections

   the latter's rise. It also led to Erdogan abandoning his initial aim of overthrowing Assad. ... groups and the rise of anti-Western Islamism within them has led to a significant decrease in US aid. ... Novosti that the SDF would continue fighting for freedom regardless of whether the alliance with the West ...

10. Syria: Kurdish-led forces on the verge of taking Raqqa, but what comes next?

    to deter airborne attacks on the SDF. Before the rise of ISIS, Western involvement in Syria was ... SNC elements. However, the rise of anti-Western Islamist elements, both within and splitting away from ... facilitated the rise of ISIS. It also initially got involved to support the overthrow of Assad. The Islamist ...

11. 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 ...

12. Burma: New phase for democracy struggle

    bus fare rises were joined by monks and escalated in to mass demonstrations for democracy. The ... supporters at the NLD headquarters on November 14, Suu Kyi called for freedom of speech, democracy, and for ... face” will lead to greater freedom of speech and human rights are tenuous. On November 17, Suu Kyi ...

13. Afghans react to burning of their country

    their throat. We’ve made an enormous contribution to help the people there achieve freedom, and for us ... unarmed protests against the occupation ― and US plans to leave bases behind after 2014 ― were rising ... against women for which Taliban rule was notorious has worsened. It has been fuelled by rising conflict ...

14. Tunisia: ‘People’s power’ ousts dictator

    had been rising against decades of military rule, corruption and poverty. International Monetary ... Fund-imposed economic policies had created “economic growth” (i.e. rising profits) for Western investors, and ... Tunisia. “Tunisia is a police state, with little freedom of expression or association, and serious human ...

15. Syria: New talks amid shifting alliances

    affinity with the Kurdish freedom movement in Turkey and broader Turkish progressive opposition. Turkish ... home. ISIS One result was the rapid rise of ISIS. The unspoken secret behind ISIS's rapid rise to ... Rojava revolution. The rise of ISIS changed Western goals in Syria. ISIS’s 2014 invasion of northern ...

16. After Brussels, putting terrorism in perspective

    “the terrorists hate our freedoms” — a claim usually made while taking more freedoms away in the name ... a major factor in turning the Syrian uprising into a religious-sectarian civil war. The sudden rise of ... ecosocialist revolution in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), led by forces allied to the Kurdish freedom movement and ...

17. Fresh Western hypocrisy on Arab Spring

    promoting “democracy, freedom and prosperity” in the Middle East. Obama also expressed “solidarity” with the ... of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. But despite the rising civilian bodycount, Western action against ... Sun said. Using information obtained under the British Freedom of Information Act, the May 29 Observer ...

18. What would it take to make poverty history?

    to clean water. The term "free market" is deceptive. Freedom for multinationals to exploit ... human and natural resources takes away freedom from people. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one ... lengths to which these corporations will go to protect this freedom of ownership was demonstrated by ...

19. Burma: Rohingya refugees flee new wave of violence and ethnic cleansing

    harassment led by government officials. “It is profoundly concerning for women’s rights, media freedom and ... Rohingya people were forced by the military into what are essentially concentration camps. Denied freedom ... still retains much institutional power. It has also been motivated by the rise of Buddhist extremist ...

20. Bloodshed and uncertainty grow amid chemical fog of war

    forces ideologically aligned with both the Kurdish freedom movement in Turkish Kurdistan) and the broader ... Since Trump took office, Airwars.org has reported a dramatic rise in casualties from US air strikes in ...

21. 'Anti-Semitism' slander ridiculous

    struggle for non-white South Africans’ freedom from Apartheid was aimed at persecuting whites. For 60 ... of anti-Semitism. Unlike supporters of freedom for Palestine, anti-Semites do not support Jews and ... the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution. The convergence of slavery and racism happened ...

22. Behind Turkey's US-backed invasion of Rojava

    ideologically aligned to the left-wing Kurdish freedom movement in Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), ... development and — significantly — ethnic equality and self-rule and religious freedom. Its military forces, ... US's priorities. The rise of ISIS was viewed as damaging to Western interests and also created the ...

23. Foreign intervention worsens Syria crisis

    opposition groups fight each other as much as the regime. The rise of Sunni sectarian forces within the ... Sunni opponents in Lebanon. The rise of ISIS and the Nusra Front arose out of the chaos of US-led wars ... who wrote a chapter on the Rojava Revolution in a new Resistance books pamphlet, The Kurdish Freedom ...

24. Celebrating genocide and conquest

    undertone seem only half joking. The rise of Australia Day over the past two decades would seem to be ... were able to offer convicts relative freedom and quantities of land unimaginable to poor people in ...

25. Defying the regime — Iran's people demand change

    police and public executions. The poor suffer from high unemployment, starvation wages and rising prices. ... abolition of child labour; unemployment benefits; the right to strike, protest, and assemble; freedom of ... people have their own interests and goals — more freedom and equality, not a return to dictatorship like ...

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