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1. Greece: State broadcaster run under workers' control as its closure sparks calls for gov't sacking

   of a huge rise in unemployment due to austerity policies. The move to close the public station is ... unprecedented authoritarianism of the Greek government and its attempt to censor freedom of speech and ...

2. Turkey: What Gezi is teaching the left

   the left. It is giving rise to some proposals that would never have been possible before. Some ... the Kurdish freedom movement and the AKP government would have been targeted, as it is a major ...

3. John Pilger: BBC echoes Murdoch's lies

   Greene, who allowed artistic and journalistic freedom to flower at the BBC. Thompson is the opposite of ... as Murdoch’s Sun declared in 1995 it shared the rising Blair’s “high moral values”, so Marr, writing ...

4. Egypt: A sleeping giant awakens

   a new rise in progressive Arab mass struggle, sweeping right across the Middle East. The popular upsurge ... elsewhere in the Arab world) is strongly based on the youth, who are demanding their rights to freedom and ...

5. Islamophobia is not acceptable

   has “passed the dinner table test” and is now widely accepted in Britain. The rise of Islamophobia ... women’s rights, the freedom to vote, violence and terrorism. However, these types of claims are ...

6. Forum: ‘What the West fears is independence’

   freedom, emancipation and liberty", said Farid Farid from the University of Western Sydney. Farid ... the Arab world as people continue to rise up against dictatorial regimes throughout the region. They ...

7. Pro-queer Muslims challenge prejudice

   men and banned it. More recently, with the rise of harsher forms of Islam in conservative Muslim ... and freedoms, let alone minorities like queer people. But despite this gloomy picture, homosexuals in ...

8. 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 ...

9. Mandatory detention is the real crime

   since it took office. Time in detention has grown unbearably long for thousands of people and rising ... call for a total end to mandatory detention, the closure of all detention centres and freedom and ...

10. Israel kills 21 in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria

    wasted. It was spilt for the sake of our nation’s freedom.” Western leaders including Barak Obama, David ... discusses solidarity Festival bans pro-BDS ‘Justin Bieber’ artwork Syria: Repression, defiance rises World ...

11. Report: Poverty worsens maternal health

    maternal mortality rate is actually increasing. This rise in maternal mortality rates was highlighted in ... health and freedom from discrimination are being violated with grave consequences for the lives of ...

12. Largest feminist conference in a decade in Melbourne

    of concern to her. The final speaker was Alison Thorne from the Freedom Socialist Party. She ... oppression began with the rise of private property and that women's free labour in the nuclear family ...

13. Egypt: Fresh protests to 'save the revolution'

    protesters and a clean-up of the ministry of [the] interior". Others included demandsfor freedom of ... three weeks, demanding a pay rise and the right to collective bargaining. They said they would consider ...

14. Workplace laws gave Qantas what it wanted

    time, the company recorded before tax profit of $552 million. Its net profit more than doubled, rising ... cannot. Unions that stray from these requirements face huge fines. The corporate world values the freedom ...

15. Time to put Qantas back in public hands

    Joyce who, with a $2 million pay rise in his back pocket, had “no choice” but to lock out his entire ... power at all. The right to strike is an inalienable human right, like free speech or freedom of ...

16. Joel Kovel speaks to Occupy Wall Street on ecosocialism

    indebtedness, precarious employment or unemployment, a nightmarish rise in inequality of wealth. In short, the ... development of all.” Therefore, freedom is the essential condition for a society beyond capitalism. An ...

17. Occupy Wall Street: You can't evict a revolution!

    Liberty Square tonight is the feeling of a movement that is rising, building, and making headway. ... choose whether to stay and be arrested or leave with their freedom. The working groups are in disarray ...

18. John Pilger: Mexico's universal struggle against power and forgetting

    message is freedom next time. The autocracy that emerged from the revolution of 1910-19 gave itself the ... Unlike in the US and Britain, many journalists, some of them inspired by the rise of the Zapatistas in ...

19. Letters to the editor

    that a 75% chance of the world avoiding a 2°C temperature rise (European Union policy) means ... the world has changed and get out of the way of the tide of people yearning for freedom and justice. ...

20. Choose life, choose to resist

    governments continue to wage in the name of liberation and freedom, and I'm certainly not okay with ... students walked out of their high schools to protest the rise of racism and Pauline Hanson's One ...

21. Reproductive choice: every woman’s right

    can do when they fall pregnant. It is frustrating that this is not available. Historically, the rise ... home”. This social conflict between freedom of choice and the valuable economic role women play by being ...

22. Protesters spied on

    Dale Mills Information released under freedom of information (FOI) laws shows that NSW Police is ... organised by ASEN [Australian Student Environmental Network], Rising Tide, Resistance, Stop Bush Coalition ...

23. Venezuela: Opposition campaigns with slander, violence

    Noting the sharp rise in support of a "yes" vote in the referendum according numerous polls, ... Venezuela and "to stand with the Venezuelan people in their fight for freedom from the iron fist of ...

24. Uni's to strike for new agreements

    freedom and university independence. It adopted claims to improve conditions for university staff on each ... campus, including a 20% pay rise over three years, restoration of the conditions lost under the Howard ...

25. Venezuela: Mass march celebrates revolution

    polarisation is on the rise again. The February 2 celebrations occurred in the context of a wave of violent ... "freedom of expression" in Venezuela, despite the fact the majority of the radio, television and print ...

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