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1. Spain: Congress backs monarchy, exposes crisis of legitimacy

   becoming the third largest group with between 28 and 58 seats. The rise of Podemos would largely be at the ... directed against the rising skepticism and dismay among PSOE members. Many PSOE members, including local ... produce the 1978 Constitution and begin the road to peace, to coexistence, to freedom and progress which ...

2. Class conflict in the shadow of World War I

   Australian soldiers died to “defend our freedom”. But in reality, the war was a struggle among imperialist ... conscription, there was a rise in union struggles around pay and conditions. Food prices rose 33.57% between ... strikes won ― Broken Hill miners won a 35-hour week and a pay rise ― but others were defeated. The strike ...

3. The Charleston massacre's political roots

   massacre took place in the context of the rise of the new Black Lives Matter movement. This movement has ... who had been able to buy his freedom from his owner. Vesey was the main leader of a planned armed ... and the most-exploited workers generally. With the rise of the Blacks Lives Matter movement, the ...

4. United States: One year after Brown killing, #BlackLivesMatter shakes nation

   Democratic Party has failed to achieve much for most African Americans, and a rising movement of young Black ... with. But they should not be allowed to overshadow the importance of the rise of the Black Lives Matter ... previous generations of Black freedom fighters into the political hacks that today's generation ...

5. Portugal: Vast protests point to government crisis

   the freedom hymn of the biggest Portuguese protest movement since that time. There is a popular ... Yet, despite the country being sunk in depression and with unemployment on the rise, union struggles ... phase. The call for the government to resign grows louder and louder as tensions rise within the ...

6. 'Malcolm X: Live like him! Dare to struggle, dare to win!'

   1946-'52 stint in prison, his rise as a radical preacher in Harlem and his final frantic period of trying ... to map out an alternative path for Afro-American liberation allied to the rising African ... made in the struggle for freedom and I’m one person who’s for giving them all the leeway possible ...

7. Spain: Right triumphs in poll, but big fight coming

   Rubalcaba as the minister who had forced Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom, ETA) to lay ... 4.6%. Particularly telling was the rise in the PP and CIU vote in working-class neighbourhoods on the ... the support for the left-nationalist Amaiur and the sharp rise in voter participation after the ...

8. Reviewing a year of struggle

   was another big issue in Australian politics last year. The second freedom flotilla to Gaza took place ... numbers rise. The Labor government has threatened to deport more refugees back to danger, including ... coincided with a rise in Indigenous incarceration and suicide, and a fall in school attendance. Black deaths ...

9. Paraguay: New space for left struggle

   that it gives rise to — particularly concerning the remarkable mobilisation of the popular movements ... built jointly with, respectively, Brazil and Argentina. The case that undoubtedly gives rise to the most ... underway makes it possible to revitalise a space of political and public freedoms. The fall of the PC opens ...

10. Latin America: 'Bush, get out!'

    part of a region that has made great strides toward freedom and prosperity. They've raised up new ... is generally referred to as part of the rise of leftist governments in the region, a demobilised ... a clear class polarization have given rise to governments that preside over a capitalist state and take ...

11. Global warming, biofuels worsen world hunger

    world hunger "within a decade", freedom from hunger remains more like a privilege than ... the global push for biofuels and rising oil prices combine to push more people in poor countries into ... 18, will also squeeze the economies of poor countries. The price rises have already sparked food riots ...

12. Conference builds left alliances and international solidarity

    common to all the presentations. A stronger theme in all the discussions, however, was the rising popular ... and movements that are on the rise in this region in response to the declining legitimacy of ... Burma's democracy movement. Resolutions arising from workshops addressed issues including freedom for the ...

13. Venezuela: Chavez — workers must be in the vanguard of constructing socialism

    unions for not being able to rise above the arena of purely trade union demands. If this does not happen ... then the political level of the working class would not rise to the level needed to carry out the task ... state, and that freedom of religion will not be allowed. They seek to frighten people into voting ...

14. Cuba celebrates strength and looks ahead

    designed to inspire Cubans to rise up against the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, and restore the ... 11 million inhabitants of Cuba again celebrated their freedom, with parties and small rallies across ... that proof of Cuba's economic strength was the recent round of wage rises, and increases to ...

15. SOUTH KOREA: Cops viciously maul Daewoo workers

    promising to pay all the hospital costs, and guaranteeing freedom of access to the Daewoo union office. ... Students are campaigning against rising tuition fees and farmers are organising against the opening of the ... back. Just when one struggle has been repressed, up rises another, then another. The moment of numb ...

16. The spectre of Frantz Fanon

    follows a jol (party) as inevitably as the sun rises over the Indian Ocean — were picking up copies of the ... in question, we are concerned, be we white, black or yellow; and each time freedom is under siege, no ... insists that "nationalism, that magnificent song that made the people rise up against their ...

17. Write on: Letters to the editor

    hangers-on who didn't have to bother with a queue. Business will gloat as sales rise. Pubs, ... greater freedoms under Hun Sen. The stolen elections provide much-needed international legitimacy for the ... unemployed a full living wage. Either way taxes must rise. Yet the Coalition offers massive tax cuts, blames ...

18. Suharto on the brink

    Sari was arrested. The rise in popularity of Megawati Sukarnoputri and unrest among the urban poor led ... goods precipitated by a combination of price rises and panic hoarding by the wealthy. Preventing this ... working people's power can secure real freedom, now is time to increase support for the radical ...

19. Socialism for the new millennium conferences

    followed on the struggle for freedom in East Timor, featuring East Timorese community activist Alfonso ... involved a vigorous discussion of the events of the 1998 Patrick lockout and the rise of a rank and file ... returned from Indonesia as part of the Resistance exposure tour. Gosling presented Suharto's rise to ...

20. Fighting Howard: 'Greater unity and common purpose'

    preference to unionists. This will be Reith's "freedom of choice", which will get the support ... lower income earners, safety net rises. You could bet London to a brick, though, it will be at the very ... we can't afford this, and we did promise there'd be wage rises equivalent to CPI increases, ...

21. Facts on Broadside

    April) describes the main opposition party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, as "left-centrist". ... rising population needs. These stresses include land degradation, a mysterious decline in rice yields and ... rising fertiliser costs. According to Dr Klause Lampe, director of the International Rice Research ...

22. South Africa: Pick 'n Pay strike continues

    after SACCAWU offered on July 19 to compromise and accept a rise of R196. The union immediately reverted ... that houses the Johannesburg Stock Exchange which rises incongruously from the surrounding rather ... National Party, the Democratic Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party as well as in the editorials of the ...

23. Brazil: 'Exporting gaza' ― how World Cup security were armed

    “rise 30 percent to $50 million”. Bloomberg News wrote antiseptically that Brazil’s desire to increase ... home have freedom of movement and opportunity without the constant spectre of military incursion. ... second-quarter net income to “rise 30 percent to $50 million”. Bloomberg News wrote antiseptically that Brazil’s ...

24. Women and politics: What kind of feminism can win?

    reactionary politics of scapegoating is on the rise again. Women, who "take men's jobs", ... rise of postmodernism, the form in which liberalism found a new lease of life in the advanced ... a cursory study of history reveals that every significant step towards greater freedom has been won by large ...

25. East Timorese youth in struggle

    story of how East Timorese youth were able to rise up and demand the rights of their country. In the ... knew that FALANTIL — the East Timorese freedom fighters — were still in the mountains, and occasionally ... youth to rise up for their country, for the Maubere people. "Stand before your mirror, and see who ...

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