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  1. Rebels shake Mexican government

    give rise to the rebel movement, his supporters compare him to the Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, ... "We don't want NAFTA, we want freedom". While the precise origin of the EZLN is unknown, ...

  2. Write on

    women's liberation, which would provide women with economic equality and reproductive freedom. Instead the ... Commonwealth games. Also the new rise in the cost of taxi fares discriminates against people with disabilities ...

  3. Write on

    economic independence and freedom, for example, but it runs deeper than that. Cowburn asserts that the ... incorrect. The social impact of this growing inequality has given rise to violence, homelessness, youth ...

  4. Belarus: towards a new dictatorship?

    a degree of freedom to demonstrate and picket, and Lukashenko was reportedly enraged in January when at ... least 20,000 trade unionists rallied in the capital, Minsk, to demand pay rises. But such actions take ...

  5. Soviet coup fails; power to the people?

    living standards continue to decline, prices and unemployment also rise, and the process of economic ... numbers of people will be encouraged to take political action not only in defence of democratic freedoms ...

  6. Fatally flawed: the system can't deliver

    a chance. History is alive and kicking. As freedom of the press (in A.J. Liebling's mighty line) is ... For the fact is that the conditions that gave rise to the revolts will continue and will still produce ...

  7. Human rights arrested in Haiti

    the departure of [former dictator Jean-Claude] Duvalier and now lost is the freedom of expression-to ... 10-day-old coup. Tensions began to rise between the multiplying number of soldiers and ers-by and foreign ...

  8. The Asian illusion

    figure is rising. By comparison, the United States and the EC account for 11% and 12% of Australia's ... Garnaut there is an underlying assumption that the Asian economies achieved success by allowing freedom to ...

  9. Behind the shock jocks鈥 assault on the truth

    the rising cost of living and increased economic hardship can be channelled into racist scapegoating ...

  10. Tea Party politics coming to Australia?

    Anti-racism Peter Boyle Australia鈥檚 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 ...

  11. New Zealand: Dirty tricks rocks elections, Mana challenges status quo

    union and won a 30% pay rise for a predominantly female workforce. She fought [former Labour PM] Helen ... students politicised by struggles for Internet freedom. And I think we can win that constituency to the ... and Sweden rise like meteors and then collapse because they had no position on social questions. But ...

  12. Egypt: People's power takes on dictatorship

    marked the rise of a people鈥檚 movement determined to end to the United States-backed regime. The movement ... rising food prices, falling wages and unemployment. 鈥淚 haven鈥檛 any food, I haven鈥檛 anything,鈥 another ... their tanks. An Al Jazeera correspondent described the January 28 protests as an 鈥渆xplosion of freedom ...

  13. Canada: NDP gains widen space for social struggle

    rise was astonishing 鈥 from 12% and one electoral seat to 43% and 59 of the 75 Quebec seats in the ... needed, he said, was an 鈥渆cological and political turn that can reveal the exciting potential of freedom ... argue that the decline of the BQ and the rise in their fortunes spells the end of sovereignty as the ...

  14. Asain left parties support Nepalese people

    people of Nepal for their courageous struggle for social justice and freedom from oppression. Long live ... struggle against neoliberal imperialism. One of the country whose people are rising up courageously to ... that, led by the communists of Nepal, the brave people will once again rise to the occasion and overcome ...

  15. Australia's racist past and present

    and, consistently since 1999, have made up 20% of the prison population 鈥 a rise of 6% since 1991. In ... civil rights movement here, in the Freedom Rides through rural NSW to break the segregationist policies ... revolutions looking to the Soviet Union, of risings by colonial peoples, or some combination of all three. In ...

  16. The epic struggle of indigenous Andean-Amazonian culture

    has given rise to a cosmic vision different from the Western outlook that views the creator as ... that the new forms of collectivism gave rise to privileged castes and wars of conquest. But in no part ... winning his freedom. After a period in exile in Mexico, Chile and Sweden, Blanco returned to Peru where he ...

  17. France: May '68 鈥 Students and workers' revolt shakes the world

    and universities. The revolt occurred in a context of rising struggles across the globe. In January ... system it represented, was espousing freedom while carrying out a war that by its end had killed ... Nanterre university campuses, which had been closed by university authorities to try to quell the rise in ...

  18. Indigenous activist's long struggle for justice

    Barry Parade. As we went through the 1960s and the 1965 Freedom Rides I was in grade 10. We got involved ... Elders Councils. That gave rise to our first political slogan: "Black control over black ... bureaucracy was able to control Aboriginal income and keep people dependent. This gave rise to the stolen ...

  19. RUSSIA: The view from the West

    exploiting the misconceptions. 2. One should also note the newly gained political and economic freedoms, and ... which ex-KGB agent Vladimir Putin's rise to power in 1999 aroused in the liberal intelligentsia ... cannot give rise to an honest officialdom and workable democratic institutions. Trying to copy Western ...

  20. CHINA: Sino-US trade deal will cement capitalist restoration

    will be able to prevent any significant such rises. It will retain for 15 years the right to ... disappear, as will 3.6% (10 million) of agricultural jobs. The paper also predicted rises of 52% and 24% ... who want their country to move further and faster toward economic freedom. It will expose China to ...

  21. 1968:Year of hope

    the recently murdered Che Guevara still haunted the tin-pot dictatorships, the people were rising up. ... cash promised by the games, but the tempers of the students continued to rise. On October 2, President ... world: massive demonstrations in the US, in West Berlin, in France. Mozambique freedom fighters in the ...

  22. Write on: Letters to the editor

    high-rise flats, population increase means urban expansion which usually takes over the highly productive ... Stephen Langford Paddington NSW [Abridged.] One Nation 2 People continue to say that the rise of Hanson is ... just an expression of yourself. It should be a freedom you are entitled to and it should certainly not ...

  23. Confronting the economic crisis

    that standpoint. Naturally, freedom of criticism has to work both ways. Those of us who are not ... GDP of 0.7% in 1994, expected by international capitalist observers to rise to 3% in 1995 and 6-8% in ... 1996-7; considerable progress against inflation, reflected in the peso rising from 120 to the US dollar to ...

  24. Interview: John Pilger

    puppet governments, which give lip service to freedom and democracy while opening up their country to ... got rid of Marcos were betrayed by Aquino doesn't mean that they won't rise again, and ... have often lost. But the people have demonstrated their power, and I am confident that they will rise ...

  25. John Pilger on the coming war with China

    century. Like the renewal of post-Soviet Russia, the rise of China as an economic power is declared an ... security鈥 and to 鈥freedom of navigation鈥. Handed millions of dollars in arms and military equipment, the ... 鈥freedom of navigation鈥. CNN led the way, its 鈥渘ational security reporter鈥 reporting excitedly from on ...

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