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1. Sri Lanka's war on Tamils: the unknown genocide

   Washington's "war on terror" prism, with the LTTE being listed by the US and the European Union as ... in its 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed group fighting for ... reported on March 3 that 200,000 civilians were "living under desperate conditions". ...

2. IRAQ: A war based on lies

   no justification for attacking Iraq in the "war on terrorism" and that their main aim was ... chemical and biological weapons programs. No case for war On July 23, Ritter said: "There is no case ... the region and to what he calls "civilisation", the truth has long been an open secret. On ...

3. John Pilger: The world war on democracy

   the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s ... the hold on a cargo of fertiliser: bird shit. The weather was rough; everyone was ill; two women ... war on democracy. The heaviest bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan was launched from its vast airstrips, ...

4. Tariq Ali on Afghanistan: Six years of a war of terror

   Sherry Wolf The US launched its first assault in the "war on terror" in Afghanistan six ... US war on Afghanistan, which a lot of people see as the "good" battle in the "war on ... years ago. Today, the country remains one of the poorest places on Earth, ruled by a corrupt warlord ...

5. New stage in Israel's war on Palestine

   Hotovely, called for a renewed war of annihilation on Hamas and a policy of targeted assassinations directed ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism International solidarity Democracy Middle East National ... led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, predictably seized on the boys' disappearance and death ...

6. and ain't i a woman: Greenham Common women inspired many

   respected and valued.” — Women's Peace Camp poem. On September 9, the last of the women protesters at ... criminalise peaceful protest. On July 6, 1993, the Women's Nuclear Test Ban Network, which included some ... Greenham Common women have been one of the high points of the anti-war, anti-nuclear and women ...

7. Syria: Women of Afrin call for global support

   causing widespread civilian casualties. Marking International Women’s Day on March 8, women ... abridged and edited for clarity below. The original can be read here. *** Kurdish women march on ...  on Twitter. Syria March 9, 2018 1172 Women from four parts of Kurdistan took to the streets in Afrin ...

8. Pakistani socialist: 'We are fighting for women's liberation'

   91������̳ Radio on Melbourne community station 3CR in March about the fight for women's liberation ... in all this? The “War on Terror” was the brainchild of the US, of course, and we are still dealing ... Imperialism & war Socialism Feminism Democracy Economy Environment Elections Agriculture Sarah ...

9. Let Iran's national women's team play!

   change from the outside.” Given the way women’s rights have been used as a red herring to justify war on ... Islamophobia. On June 5, moments before Iran’s women’s team was due to take to the pitch and play in an Olympic ... who bans the hijab proposed in 2004 that women players wear “hot pants” on the pitch to boost the ...

10. Pakistan: Opportunism behind Imran Khan’s anti-Americanism

    “anti-imperialism” is based on repression of women, religious minorities, trade unions, peasant organisations and all ... Asia & the Pacific Elections Imperialism & war Farooq Tariq Lahore Suddenly, Imran Khan ... which has been trending on Twitter since April 3, when he lost power. Since his election as Prime ...

11. Malalai Joya: We must oppose all violence against women

    the brutalities going on against women by extremists. She wanted to wake up the women of the rural ... Imperialism & war Feminism Malalai Joya Malalai Joya is an Afghan feminist and democracy ... crime of organising for women's rights. * * * Once again we see a crime against women by ...

12. and ain't i a woman?: Women pollies opposed to violence?

    on terrorism". Surely war is the most grotesque example of violence against women. Similarly, ... have opposed Bush's war on Afghanistan, a war which has already killed hundreds of civilians, many ... , making them frightened to go out after dark on their own." Violence against women goes beyond the ...

13. IRAQ: A war based on US lies

    worked on the US war plan who told him that there isn't a "single confirmed biological or ... capitalise on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York to justify its war on Iraq by trying to link Saddam ... Washington's concerns that Iran might win the Iran-Iraq war. On March 24, 1984, the day the press reported that ...

14. 10 new political albums that sum up 2020

    BARFBAG — LET'S STOP A WAR Deliberately released on election day was the short, sharp new album from ... Politic, who released their new album, Short-Sighted People In Power, just days before the election. On it, ... stylings with Ennio Morricone theatrics and spaghetti western sound effects on their new EP. On "Dump ...

15. Rojava’s women’s revolution under threat in Afrin

    Kurdish) held a women-only demonstration through the city centre on February 9. The marchers expressed their ... as targets and spoils of war. The video released on the internet depicting the mutilation of ... abuses of international law and war crimes, we believe that women’s international solidarity will be our ...

16. The failings of Westminster: Scott Morrison’s shadow government

    in a country that  tolerates secret trials  (only revealed by accident), raids on journalists and the ... “The Governor-General signs an administrative instrument on the advice of the prime minister.” Whether ... the statutes permit ministers to confer power on others. What was unusual was that such powers are ...

17. Australian-made component found in downed Azerbaijani military drone

    Imperialism & war Middle East Peter Boyle military drones Turkey's war on Kurdistan ... attacks on the Armenian community in Nagorno Karabakh and also in the Libyan civil war.  “The ... urgent letter on November 6 to Australian company Microair Avionica, which manufactured a component found ...

18. International Women's Day marked by huge strike in Spain, global protests

    women went on strike and marched in Spain on March 8 in support of a call for an international women ... on the poor in the name of the “war on drugs”. In South Korea, hundreds of protesters rallied in ... Feminism Workers & unions Kerry Smith International Women's Day (IWD) About five million ...

19. Socialist Alliance stands with Sri Lankan movement

    President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Thousands of people overcame a heavily-armed military and police on July 9, to ... inspiration for all those struggling for a better world. Rajapaksa fled the country before resigning on July ... resign. Wickramasinghe declared a state of emergency on July 13, sparking fears of repression. This ...

20. A woman's place is in the struggle: Women resisting occupation

    Amnesty International has just published a disturbing report on the plight of women in Iraq. The ... report reveals how sanctions, war and occupation have wiped out years of advances made by Iraqi women ... . Two years of war and occupation have driven women into the home, seen their jobs disappear and their ...

21. Feminists discuss sexism, racism and war

    war on women. Guest speakers at the conference included two women campaigners from East Timor, three ... women Balgoa elders from central Australia and Aleyshia Manning, who spoke on the issue of intersex and ... on the devastating impact the apartheid wall and Israeli militarism is having on women in Palestine. ...

22. Geelong working women’s conference to feature leading union activists

    War on Workers, will include Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) Women’s Officer Lisa ... precarious work, underemployment and their effects on women will include Emma Kerin, an organiser with the ... Unemployment Workers Union will discuss the impacts of underemployment and precarious work on women. There will ...

23. 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 ...

24. Bosnian women call for peace and justice

    Bosnian women call for peace and justice By Jennifer Thompson Sydney — Speaking at a meeting on ... women and children particularly have been targeted in the war. Coupled with a call for the establishment ... of a war crimes tribunal was her call to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia-Hercegovina so that the ...

25. Water for Rojava

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Peter Boyle Water Turkey's war on Rojava ... Rojava is a society based on a grassroots democratic, women's liberationist paradigm in which all ... “Nowadays, the Rojava Revolution is under attack, but not only by war,” warns Ercan Aybogan, a Kurdish ...

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