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Venezuela: Socialism makes a comeback
"[Venezuelans] can look forward to steadily diminishing freedom — and if the history of socialism is any guide ... controlling huge oil reserves on which the US economy partly depends, with rising China ready to invest in its ...
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Cairo conference calls for resistance to imperialism
socialist movements, added, "When the Soviet Union fell, the principles remained: freedom and equality, ... "linking the rising movements of the left in Latin America with the anti-war movements on the one hand and ...
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Are we really asleep?
at a fairly low ebb, rising sporadically around issues such as IR and war, cannot be put down to ... restricting academic freedoms), the loss of academic authority, the dramatic decline in funding of scientific ...
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War, revolution and the birth of the Communist International
revolution's central leader, the International was effectively destroyed by the rise of Stalinism. The process ... time advancing to real freedom." It was not easy for the revolutionary wing of world socialism to ...
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Socialism and women's emancipation
marriage. Abortion became legal and free in 1920. Women's freedom of choice was also strengthened by ... footing." With the rise of Stalinism inside Soviet Russia, these moves were reversed: the international ...
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The Communist Manifesto: 160 years old and still causing trouble
by the late 1840s, an economic crisis brought conflict. The unfulfilled promises of freedom from 1789 ... Engels argued, the rise of the bourgeoisie (the French name for the capitalists) actually prepares the ...
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Indonesia: Left confronts fuel price hike
support anti-fuel price rise protests do so to delegitimise the president and to gain popularity needed ... Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Faith (AKKBB). The latter had defended the rights of a Muslim sect, ...
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Letters to the Editor
means of renewable energy. But the wind does not blow, the waves do not rise and the sun does not shine ... police powers was reason enough for people who respect democracy, freedom of speech and civil rights to ...
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SPAIN: Madrid: capital of glory, capital of infamy
Basque independence organisation ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) for the bombings. When the journalists ... of political explaining to do if it to be able to rise to its responsibilities. Now, the question ...
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Work for the dole is bad for you
"Does 'Work for the Dole' Work?", was obtained by the Australian newspaper under freedom ... from 120,718 in 1997-98 to 346,078 in 2000-01, a 187% rise over three years. In 2000-01, 18% of ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
analysis of the rising tide of working-class struggle in the entire region, from the increasingly militant ... ancient liberty of which this country has until now been very proud: freedom from arbitrary arrest and ...
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500th issue Australian solidarity messages
that confuses and poisons; keep demanding that we rise up and challenge the racist laws of mandatory ... a crucial ally to the many struggles for freedom and justice in the Asia-Pacific region. Your long-time ...
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PALESTINE: Bush backs Sharon's war
Sharon signalled that another military assault on Palestinians was near: "He who rises up to kill ... don't extend to allowing human rights and democratic freedoms to be exercised by Palestinians. The May ...
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INDONESIA: Ruling party cracks down on dissent
the Law on the Freedom to Express Opinion”. Ironically, he said, even after police had been informed ... to stem the rising tide of discontent and the regime has resorted to outright thuggery. There are ...
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PALESTINE: How Sharon destroyed the cease-fire
public, the bullish mood of the stock exchange, the rise in value of the shekel, the return of the masses ... third, to put an end to the hudna and give the army back its freedom of action in all the Palestinian ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
fruit of a rise in the mass movement but a result of the failure of the economic model adopted by the ... isolationist, and opposes all social and religious freedom. As leftists, it would make sense for us to support ...
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Solomons intervention: John Howard's new colonialism
privatising public services. Rising unemployment resulting from the collapse of logging activities and the ... Malaitans. In October 1998, these exploded into a violent conflict when the Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM) an ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
people in detention until journalists and lawyers have open access to these areas and the freedom to ... This safety net may be raised unless Labor joins the Greens in the Senate and opposes these rises ...
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'I will always strive to engineer a better society'
ideas. Faced with attempts to implement neo-liberal policies and the rise of communalism in the 1990s at ... fight for freedom and justice, who fight to rid the world of the source of our oppression — capitalism ...
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Ten years of refusing to toe the line
native title, of refugees' bitter battles for freedom from the detention centres they'd been ... stronger; a new anti-corporate movement is on the rise in the first world, in Seattle, Prague and Melbourne, ...
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UNITED STATES: The lies they tell about Islam
Europe in the Middle Ages to wage wars of conquest in the Middle East. "Freedom and fear, justice ... stresses social justice as well as a respect for order. Mohammed's rise in the sixth century unified ...
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Temporary protection visas punish refugees
entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was ... 5000 TPV refugees in Australia, a number which is steadily rising. Their lives here are unremittingly ...
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'Absolute tyranny' in Pakistan
biggest city, there is a virtual civil war between different ethnic groups. As well, tension is rising ... population is not Muslim. Christians have rejected the bill as a curb on their religious freedom. The head of ...
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Chile: the dead-end of 'democratura'
Latin America witnessed the rise of what was referred to as "democratura". The military ... democratisation as simply greater freedom of criticism "within" the elite, declined. The burgeoning ...
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Defying the 'barbarism of Stalinism'
gave rise to the joke that Eisenstein's re-enactment of the storming of the Winter Palace caused ... continually hoped he would have artistic freedom to make each subsequent film), but he was no "Stalinist ...