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  1. War, resistance and the ALP

    a long overdue documentation of a little known chapter in the history of women and progressive politics ... in Australia. It is the story of five women who founded Save Our Sons (SOS), a movement which ... campaigned against conscription and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War during the 1960s and ...

  2. Edna Ryan

    major political movement in Australia since the first world war. Her first political memory revolved ... Women's Day demonstration in Sydney in 1928. Her last work was informing women trade unionists about the ... difficulties and dangers of enterprise bargaining for underpaid and under-organised women workers. One of the ...

  3. Outbreak of peace

    Oval on January 23 there were so many cops around you might have expected a convoy of uranium trucks to ... brigade was parked on the servo apron opposite. St Johns and the Orange people from the rescue volunteers ... the colour, energy, the presentation. A couple of grey-haired women with walking sticks went burrowing ...

  4. 'Globalisation' and the capitalist austerity drive

    corporations is increasingly directed toward branches of industry with high levels of spending on fixed ... same report matter-of-factly states: "Inequalities between men and women, between ethnic groups, ... the early 19th century up to the eve of World War I (exports grew from 3% of world industrial output ...