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  1. Write on: Letters to the editor

    too complacent? What is the right mix of restrictions and freedoms? How much should we give up? Do we ... see images of debates on freedoms and thought control emerge from the past? As expressed in George ... "production for social need would give rise to environmentally friendly production". So heavy industry ...

  2. Why we hate the banks

    $4 million in clear profit. Interest rate rises, of course, are passed on immediately. Except for ... capitalist parties. Capitalism is vocal about taking away the freedom of people who rob banks but is silent ... about taking away the freedom of banks to rob people. The old socialist demand of "Nationalise the ...

  3. How Washington's 'well-trained dogs' sold the Iraq war

    television "expert" panels, with excitement rising in their voices as they wallowed in their ... 鈥 imperialism). "Freedom of speech" is one thing but the "freedom to be heard" is quite ...

  4. CHINA: Behind the US campaign on the yuan

    cannot be attributed to rising imports and outsourcing", and says this has much more to do with ... items (i.e., mainly in trade, but also investment income). But the decisive freedom for capital lies in ... removed by China, so that US and other Western corporations have complete "freedom of movement" ...

  5. ASIO's new laws an Orwellian nightmare

    basic freedoms will make us all safer? Williams was referring to the Australian Security Intelligence ... or military juntas, undermining laws governing freedom of speech and association. You can now be ... government agencies, a 30-fold rise in the last decade. The police use electronic surveillance, such as phone ...

  6. Write on: letters to the editor

    30,000 people unemployed in Wollongong, a figure which continues to rise. As Geoff points out, even the ... mothers, the guilt may be too much to bare. Women's liberation was to be about freedom from such ... ourselves and society. Is this freedom? Helen Lobato Melbourne [Abridged.] March 3, 1999 351 ...

  7. Resistance conference dares to struggle and win

    in Indonesia, the struggle for democracy and freedom in the two countries remained strong. Resistance ... analysed the federal government's attempts to respond to rising public sentiment against growing ... struggles for freedom from exploitation in the Third World. Kim Tae Jung from the newly formed Korean ...

  8. Left unites to form Socialist Alliance

    Socialist Party (DSP), the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), the Freedom Socialist Party, the ... confidence to feel we can reach that frustration and channel it leftward聰. Alison Thorne, of the Freedom ... ending, amid a rise of massive, new protest movements and a new sense that revolutionary socialists can ...

  9. French young people fight racism and cutbacks

    organisation, about racism, young people and politics in France. With rising unemployment and cuts to social ... right to choose abortion and freedom of sexuality. Second is continuing inequality when it comes to ... with freedom of movement, an end to poverty and real democratisation. "We can't have ...

  10. What Phil Ochs heard

    but Ochs was remarkable for more than his singing. The arc of the rise and fall of '60s US ... best known from Country Joe McDonald's performance 鈥 and the stirring freedom anthem, ... Dylan's "self-conscious egotism". After Newport, Ochs went south with freedom riders for civil ...

  11. Women and the Russian Revolution

    the French Revolution, ultimately the new legal freedoms 鈥 including simplified divorce, rights for ... disadvantaged by the new social and sexual freedoms (which men had traditionally enjoyed) gradually became more ... their parents were married, gave rise to the alimony provisions, which in practice came to advantage ...

  12. Action updates

    the Bougainville Freedom Movement held actions in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane in support of four ... Gerry Adams' visa denial; and to prepare events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the rising ... A picket, to continue until July 4, has been established. Organisers ask supporters of East Timorese freedom ...

  13. Medvedev assesses the Gorbachev era

    disintegrating, and inflation is speeding up. Now there's at least a certain freedom of speech and freedom of ... of enterprises was also poorly thought out. We saw the rise of "collective egoism"; each ...

  14. The right to resist

    local elections. All are worthy and worthwhile demands, but they do not add up to a charter for freedom ... find full expression. For that, we need freedom. But how, it is asked, can a cause which has as its ... evidence shows entirely the opposite: the IRA campaign and the rise of Sinn Fein as a political force have ...

  15. Slash and burn education

    and calls for greater "independence" and "freedom" for individual universities ... system would give total freedom to any university to accept other students on the basis of full fees and ... increasing numbers of people were accepting places because of rising unemployment levels) and government ...

  16. Invisible comrades, Gays and Lesbians in the Irish struggle

    rights of children and their parents violated and the freedom and autonomy of religious institutions and ... a detraction. On the contrary, our involvement is a reinforcement that the struggle is indeed about the freedom ... oppression that those prejudices give rise to, with the resultant fear, isolation and violence. The ...

  17. Write on: letters to the editor

    allowing developers to construct high rise buildings on the edges of the Brisbane River, where nature ... Bridge. Because of the recently constructed high rise building on the opposite bank, that view is now lost ... Ann Streets, where developers are threatening to build a high rise building, thus obliterating one of ...

  18. 'False accusations and major leaps of logic'

    chair, Peter Ackerman, became chair of the neo-conservative Freedom House, replacing none other than ... Freedom House); Douglas Schoen (who is the founding partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates ... Ackerman is chair of the neo-conservative Freedom House, and sits on the USIP's US advisory council. ...

  19. Israel's cruel Gaza siege could escalate

    threat of attack and lack of basic freedoms, life in Gaza remains a nightmare. The siege has led to ... a rise in addiction to painkilling drugs, particularly Tramadol. Inter Press Service said on October 22 ...

  20. Russia on the road to underdevelopment

    Russian and English: "Freedom Works!". The citizens of Moscow have good reason to think ... otherwise. Price rises of 300-400% and more for the most basic items, from petrol and furniture to meat and ...

  21. A Russian scientist, indigenous people and the Australian connection

    nation in their quest for freedom and self-determination.鈥 While making Sydney his second home, ... Miklouho-Maclay spoke out against the rising tide of colonisation, and criticised the push by his adoptive home to ...

  22. Clive Hamilton: We need a new environmental radicalism

    has seen a sharp decline in membership of the mainstream parties and the rise of a 鈥減olitical class鈥 ... 鈥 marches, boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and nonviolent resistance. They directly confronted racism in ... the International Energy Agency forecasts world energy consumption will continue to rise sharply and ...

  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. United States: Planned Parenthood shootings the cruel consequence of anti-abortion hate

    Planned Parenthood,鈥 Huckabee said. Rising right-wing terror The Colorado Springs killings are another ... example of a frightening rise in right-wing terrorist attacks. It comes on the heels of shootings ... saves lives, that offers freedom, bodily integrity, and equality.鈥 Barack Obama and other political ...

  25. Twenty-three years of rainbow reporting

    and adoption laws, and against homophobia. In those two decades, opinion polls have shown rising ... individual action rather than state intervention. 鈥淭his sits nicely with a belief in individual freedoms and ... from the rising number of equal marriage rallies around the country. These culminated in ...

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