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  1. 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 ...

  2. Attacks on the Racial Discrimination Act are not about free speech

    restricted freedom of speech and assembly.  Our right to protest has been curbed by new laws in most states; ... complaints, while rising sharply since 2011–12, are a tiny fraction of the actual cases of racial vilification ... against the racial vilification laws and recognise that the real danger we are confronting today is a rise ...

  3. IMF boss who pays no tax lectures Greek people

    International solidarity Economy Peter Boyle How outrageous is this story? Just days after International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde lectured Greek people to pay their taxes or not expect any sympathy from the rest of the world, the British Guard ...

  4. Police try to ban Occupy Sydney and Socialist Alliance from Newtown Festival

    global Occupy movement. "This an outrageous attack on freedom of political expression in Newtown ...

  5. Malaysian socialist on huge May Day rally, struggle for people's rights

    goes against the freedom of assembly enshrined in the constitution. So there were legal battles won. ... big response to this May Day say something about the rise of class issues over issues of race and ...

  6. Indonesia: Corrupt neoliberalism no ‘transition model’

    Islamic fundamentalism as the ‘third political force’, which is often used to attack or stem the rise of ... regions in the post-Suharto period. There are still a lot of restrictions on freedom of criticism and ...

  7. Malaysian democracy activist on new mass mobilisations: 'Bersih 4.0 is coming'

    its state-owned enterprises. This was Mahathir’s model of fast tracking the rise of the Malay ... Whistleblowers and media are attacked for any attempt of expose or report the truth. Our freedom of peaceful ...

  8. Why huge protests failed to stop the Iraq war

    think it is inevitable. It’s matched with the discourse that this is a war for freedom, against terror. ... that in the rise of alternative media and the proliferation of new media sources on the web. It isn’t ...

  9. Tea Party politics coming to Australia?

    Anti-racism Peter Boyle Australia’s most famous racist and one-time MP Pauline Hanson won the attention of big business media at the March 10 ballot draw for the NSW Legislative Council elections. However, more significant than Hanson, is the attempt by c ...

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