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1. The Titanic: class war on the high seas

   lines deep converging on the Boat Deck facing us … There were women in the crowd as well as men and ... lower orders. It is true that steerage conditions on the Titanic were marginally better than on many ... days before the morale-sapping nanny state. When the ship struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, ...

2. Vietnam War: 50 years on, rulers still spreading myths

   of the rhetorical sanitisation that routinely accompanies official US pronouncements on the war in ... Imperialism & war David T. Rowlands The reality of the Vietnam War as a brutal, imperialist ... anniversary of the war’s beginning in 1962. Starting this year, the government will implement “a 13-year ...

3. Bolivia: Indigenous Women’s Day honours Aymaran resistance leader

   Imperialism & war Indigenous Economy Latin America & the Caribbean David T. Rowlands At ... 5 was officially designated International Indigenous Women’s Day. Since then, September 5 has been ... in La Paz, now the capital of Bolivia, on September 5, 1782. During the early 1780s, the highlands of ...

4. The Zapatista uprising: twenty years on

   1910, Zapata’s was always the one most focused on expanding the autonomy of Mexico’s long-oppressed ... but the PRI actually governed on behalf of domestic elites and the ever-watchful colossus to the ... the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which came into effect on January 1, 1994, ...

5. Congo: Lumumba's US-backed murder-- 50 years on

   on a tragic course that has led to the horrors of today. The involvement of Western imperialist ... natural resources such as rubber. Women and children had their hands hacked off by the tens of thousands ... Dulles to “eliminate” the dissident leader. This response was driven by Cold War imperial geopolitics and ...

6. WWI: the nationalist jihad

   thronged to depots and recruiting offices, women placed flowers in their rifle barrels. While some on the ... Imperialism & war David T. Rowlands ANZAC centenary World War I The Tony Abbott government has ... trade in zones of sectarian strife, they argue, these “extremists” might well embark on a campaign of ...

7. The ANZAC role in crushing the 1919 Egypt Revolt

   Imperialism & war David T. Rowlands Shortly after the end of World War I, Australian troops ... military history has never prompted much national soul-searching — but it should. The war in which some ... Egypt when he summed up the period with the following statement: “During World War 1 … Australian troops ...

8. Sixty years from Castle Bravo crime, fresh US nuke push

   Cold War propaganda and censorship machine. Then came the “Day with two suns” on March 1, 1954 the day ... Imperialism & war Environment Democracy National liberation David T. Rowlands Imagine trying ... years later, dump the test subjects back on their irradiated island with false promises that all the ...

9. US gun culture a threat to entire world

   violence on a large scale [in a] conflict that has resulted in the suffering of millions of men, women and ... Imperialism & war Economy David T. Rowlands The July 20 movie theatre massacre in Aurora, ... shooting to have occurred in the US in the past three decades. On top of these crazed rampages, the annual ...

10. Colombia: A US-backed terror state

    David T. Rowlands By waging a brutal war against its own population on behalf of transnational ... violence against women said attacks on Colombian women are widespread, systematic and often go unpunished. ... contributes directly to the mass displacement of peasants. Nominally a tactic of the "War on Drugs", ...

11. The machine that killed Hendrix

    out in favour of the radical anti-racist Black Panthers and criticised the US war on Vietnam. He ... (about the plight of Native Americans) and the visceral anti-war tone poem “Machine Gun”. Hendrix spoke ... considered him a dangerous subversive and targeted him for surveillance and harassment. Forty years on from ...

12. Hugo Throssell, V.C. — a red Anzac

    First World War experience, holding up the "diggers" as models of conservative virtue. They ... welfare — they just got on with the job (supposedly) of defending Australia and the British Empire. During ... Gallipoli and other theatres became anti-war pacifists and/or socialists as a result of their experiences. ...

13. Peru: Blood for rubber, blood for oil

    Capitalising on this profitable opportunity, the agents of an international consortium known as the ... and reduce labour costs. Over a decade, tens of thousands of indigenous men, women and children were ... nothing to eat;... that they rob them their crops; their women, and their children to satisfy their ...

14. Barbed wire: a symbol of oppression

    toll on women and children behind the makeshift barbed-wire perimeters. Death rates soared into the ... be said, on account of the white victims). The battlefields of the Western Front during World War One ... of dispossession on the Australian frontier. During the same period, barbed wire was increasingly ...

15. A new scramble for Africa

    Economy Mining Environment David T. Rowlands On June 19, six executives — the entire board of ... praise on the deceased. At the July 7 funeral of four of the executives in Perth, WA Premier Colin ... developing resources in a difficult land … It takes men and women of courage and enterprise, skill and ...

16. Greece: A tradition of revolt

    neoliberal assault on job security, pensions and social services has lead to a series of general strikes ... people pay for the global financial crisis it caused. But Greek strikers have drawn on an indigenous ... bases: Isagoras represented the wealthy landowning and commercial elites whereas Cleisthenes drew on the ...

17. Guatemala: Massacre investigation breathrough

    light on the extent of US complicity in Guatemalan human rights crimes, one of Latin America’s most ... killing machine had already condemned them to death on the grounds that they were the soil in which the ... seed of resistance grows. Acting on orders issued by the US-backed regional command, a death squad of ...

18. Peru: Army targets civilians in hostage crisis

    pipeline, were captured on April 9 in Kephasiato, a small hamlet in the Amazonian district of Echarate in ... south-central Peru. After being held for five days in remote jungle, the workers were freed unharmed on April ... The company denies this. On April 23, the administration of President Ollanta Humala authorised a big ...

19. Bangladesh: What has changed after Rana Plaza?

    before. The inconvenient thing about Rana Plaza, as far as the fashion brands that rely on outsourced ... moment, the wide conceptual gulf between the consumer goods on our shelves and the exploited foreign ... be done. Three months on from Rana Plaza, what has changed? Rhetorically, some progress appears to ...