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1. The drug wars: World War II and Vietnam

   A cleaned-up waterfront could be relied on to support the war against fascism through democratic politics in ... Imperialism & war History John Rainford World War II World War II was fought to resist fascist ... aggression; the Vietnam War was an imperial war of aggression fought chiefly by France and the US, alongside ...

2. The fight to win the vote for women

   politics of working-class women — on the barricades, in riots and in revolutions. As the British historian ... imprescriptible and inalienable rights”. On August 26, 1789, the French National Assembly voted for a “Declaration ... resistance to oppression”. In 1791, the Duc de la Rochelle’s Committee on Mendicancy declared the “right to ...

3. Radical Wollongong film: From mass unemployment to war

   the end of World War I was slow to come to Wollongong. Instead, the immediate post-war employment ... conditions in the bush and on the beaches. During the depression, about a third of the Australian workforce ... was unemployed. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), which formed in Sydney on October 30, 1920, ...

4. Warmongering musings of mad monk Tony Abbott

   Imperialism & war John Rainford In August last year, Prime Minister Tony Abbott thought it ... instead started work on his brilliant idea of awarding a knighthood to the spouse of the British monarch. ... a great deal of his time sitting in his office reading Winston Churchill and ruminating on what he might ...

5. Socialists and the vote in Australia

   Socialism Elections John Rainford On its establishment in 1788, the colony of New South Wales was ... fiction that denied a war of occupation. Their land is still today a land of struggle against oppression. ... the Chartist movement in Britain, and several ex-Chartists were among the miners’ leaders on the ...

6. Socialists and how the vote was won

   class could take control of the state through the ballot-box and reconstruct it on a socialist basis. ... Wilhelm Liebknecht founded the Saxon People’s Party in Chemnitz on a democratic program that saw Bebel ... Association continued on after his death and his supporters merged the organisation with that of Bebel and ...

7. Tax office offers amnesty to tax cheats

   �����������Ƿɲ�” on tax cheats. The project is aimed at recovering billions in tax revenue held in bank accounts in ... offshore tax havens. It is part of what is said to be a "global war" against tax evasion ... following recent work by the OECD and G20 finance ministers on automatic exchanges of tax information. In an ...

8. Put a socialist in NSW parliament

   the ALP.” Last week he was at it again in his address to the “Light on the Hill Society” at Revesby ... Workers Club in western Sydney. Calling for “bottom up” reforms, which included a prohibition on binding ... law” obligations that should be imposed on the parties receiving them. “If you break the law in the ...