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1. Building peace from the grassroots

   Peace Institute, on Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the West Bank, where violence is only part of the ... on Vietnam, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, represent other key periods of popular peacemaking. ... -like social order — noting the importance of women’s anti-war movements, such as the 1981–2000 Greenham Common ...

2. Dutton ramps up culture war on women, work-from-home

   servants, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has doubled down on his culture war against workers, particularly ... The  Australian Council of Trade Unions  (ACTU) said on March 5 that nearly 1 million more women had ...  columnist  Jacqueline Maley  wrote on March 9, not only are more women working, but more workers of any ...

3. Socialists announce ‘liveable city’ ticket for Sydney council election

   Andrew Chuter said that council can deliver on housing, pointing to a  world-first trans women’s housing ... deadly material removed. The team is campaigning for council to take an anti-war stand on global issues, ... such as Israel’s war on Palestine and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Candidate Adam Haddad, a migrant from ...

4. Tamils call for permanent settlement, express solidarity with Palestine

   Imperialism & war Refugees & migrants Chloe DS Jim McIlroy Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day ... Sri Lankan genocide permanent visas Protests marked Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day on May 18, 15 years ... Sri Lankan government for its continuing oppression of the Tamil minority. They called on Labor to end ...

5. Tanya Plibersek MP urged to take a stand for Palestine

   Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East National liberation Jim McIlroy Clay ... 2023-25 Israeli genocide on Gaza Australian Labor Party (ALP) Creatives for Palestine Families for ... rallied outside Tanya Plibersek’s office in Redfern on February 23. Plibersek is the federal environment ...

6. Timor-Leste: The ongoing struggle for rights and justice for women and children trauma survivors

   Association, which includes both men and women. Our work also focuses on reuniting the stolen Timorese children ... your educational programs on women’s rights? We have a curriculum activity on human rights and social ... the war. We call them children born of war. The women have asked the Catholic Church to baptise their ...

7. Forum looks at how to achieve a just transition for fossil fuel workers, communities

   opening night of the Newcastle coal port blockade on November 24. The Rising Tide (RT) and 91������̳ ... culture war. “An offshore wind industry off the coast, near here, is critical as the wind blows hard and ... Gippsland region and there are opportunities for women to work in the renewables industry — “an ...

8. Forum discusses new phase of struggle across Latin America

   Democracy Imperialism & war International solidarity Latin America & the Caribbean Jim ... “Anti-capitalist wins in Latin America: Is the Pink Tide back?”, hosted by 91������̳ and Socialist Alliance on ... country’s future depends on the strength of the popular mobilisation in support of democracy. Radford ...

9. The new Cold War on China

   Behind the Cold War on China By Dave Holmes, Chris Slee and Peter Boyle Resistance Books, 2021 43pp, $10 ... the Cold War on China, is an important and timely contribution to the current debate about China ... today. Perhaps it should be titled "The New Cold War on China" because we should never forget ...

10. Radicals remember the 1960s

    Books & music History Imperialism & war International solidarity Socialism Women Workers ... performing on the platform of the May 1970, 100,000-strong Vietnam War Moratorium march in Melbourne. In late ... 4 Climate) are speaking out on the climate crisis, just as the 1960s students did against the Vietnam War ...

11. An incomplete, yet valuable insight into the Communist Party of Australia

    had more than 22,000 members. The CPA faced contradictions during the latter stages of the war. On one ... Asia & the Pacific Books & music History Imperialism & war Socialism Jim McIlroy Books ... his doctoral studies at Cambridge University. His first major project on return to Australia was ...

12. Dare to Struggle Film Festival celebrates radical action

    Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, (about the Coalition government's war on construction workers); Song ... to Struggle Film Festival (DTSFF) was successfully held in Sydney on April 22‒23. More than 50 films ... on a variety of people's campaigns were shown in four sessions at Trades Hall and the NSW ...

13. Colombia’s ongoing war against the poor

    Plan Colombia ‘war on drugs’ was in reality a war on the poor farmers. "Under previous Colombian ... from the audience took up issues such as the war on drugs, the peace talks in Havana and the need for ... International solidarity Jim McIlroy "The war in Colombia has been ongoing for decades, with ...

14. Comrades! The fascinating life stories of Australian communists

    passion for a world without war, without divisions of race and class, for a society based on cooperation ... dissolution in 1991. The stories, outlining the lives of communist women and men, reveal their commitment to ... movements for progressive social change over the party's 70-year existence. They worked on the wharves, ...

15. SEARCH Foundation launches 'Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists'

    struggle for women’s rights and equality; and “From all the lands on Earth we come”: Migrants and ... Lives of Australian Communists on October 30. The book, which commemorated the lives of 100 members of ... CPA, on October 30,1920. Brian Aarons, SEARCH Foundation committee member, explained that the 100 short ...

16. Slavery endemic to Australia’s colonial history

    colonisation.  A lid has been lifted on the culture wars, fuelled by the right, which actively seeks to diminish ... people, and put chains around their necks, and make them walk 300 kilometres and then set them to work on ... the fact that colonisation was based on the notion of  terra nullius  which guided dispossession and ...

17. Chavez speaks on socialist ethics, sends greetings to Australia

    against Israel's war on Palestinians, which had killed four children and two women that morning. He ... ranging from the results of the US election and its significance for Venezuela, the war on Iraq, the ... went on to answer eight questions from the assembled media in a little over four hours, covering topics ...

18. The new attacks on health care

    attack," Thomas said. Clearly, the federal Coalition government's war on the public health system is ... assault on the public health system. It comes in the wake of the failure of the previous Tony Abbott ...

19. Climate crisis demands revolution in firefighting

    especially younger ones and more women as well. We need to tackle these huge bushfires like a guerrilla war ... I was sick of fires. In the 2014 bushfire, our valley lost 20 buildings. On the night of December 28-29, ... roads were now closed, with police at the border, not allowing people to re-enter the fire zone. On ...

20. Eye-opening look at the dark side of the ‘aid industry’

    did on the entire post-World War II Marshall Plan to reconstruct a devastated Europe. Despite this ... Antony Loewenstein joins award-winning filmmaker Thor Neureiter on a four-year journey through the world of shady mining ... takes us to war-torn Afghanistan to interview leading community figures struggling to defend local ...

21. Peterloo: A defining moment in the struggle for democracy in Britain

    in Manchester, England. On August 16 that year, a crowd estimated at up to 80,000 gathered in St ... Peter’s Fields to demand parliamentary reform and an extension of voting rights. On the orders of the ... Civil War of 1648, and led to the formation of the Chartist movement, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the rise ...

22. Walking tour brings radical Sydney to life

    Left Weekly, on April 13. Some 60 people enjoyed an afternoon of revelations about the often forgotten ... 1916, who were protesting poor pay and conditions during the increasingly unpopular World War 1. The ... militant history of the Waterside Workers Federation on Sydney’s docks. They stressed that the area had ...

23. Coalition under fire in lead-up to NSW elections

    stadiums, increased police powers and strip searching, and the continued ban on pill testing, are just a few ... policy shifts in a progressive direction. On some issues, Labor has responded to community demands. Labor ... luxury cars and yachts to pay for more nurses and midwives. However, on the crucial area of road ...

24. Behind Gough Whitlam's legacy

    support] the equal pay [for women] case; the sales tax on contraceptives was dropped and they were placed ... Jim McIlroy Australian Labor Party (ALP) Gough Whitlam Vietnam War The passing of former Labor ... Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at the age of 98 on October 21 provoked a wave of emotion from the ...

25. Sydney Kurdish community rally for human rights in Turkey

    its war on the Kurds. The PKK needs to be taken off the international terrorism list. "The ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy National liberation Economy Jim McIlroy Gadigal ... Turkish government's attacks on human rights and for Kurdish freedom on December 18. The rally was ...

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