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  1. Pat Power: 'We need a war against poverty, not a war against terrorism'

    on Iraq's women and children. It points out that already one in four children under the age of ... a climate of war. On the other hand, a war against poverty would entail genuine gestures of goodwill. It ... attack on Iraq will lead to inevitable loss of life — hundreds, thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens will ...

  2. The veil and religious freedom

    code. Today, women incur a fine and instruction if they neglect the correct hijab." Wars waged ... his condemnation was most thunderous on the subject of how Islam treated women. It was Islam's ... degradation of women, its insistence on veiling and seclusion... The Egyptians should be 'persuaded or ...

  3. Judy Davis: 'We do not support your war'

    Iraqi army on the road from Kuwait to Basra in Iraq. The war had been won, Saddam Hussein had announced ... discourse. War is, of course, the ultimate failure in communication, but the West has long believed it has ... had the edge on civility. We can no longer take comfort in this fantasy. Those who support Prime ...

  4. On the box

    On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ... She returns in the hope of giving her children the opportunities denied her by war and poverty. ABC, ... Tuesday, December 17, 1pm. One Night the Moon — Drama based on the true story of the Aboriginal tracker, ...

  5. Peggy Errey remembered

    helped establish the Wollongong Women's Centre and she was on the first board of the South Coast ... Errey was commemorated by 150 people at her funeral in Wollongong on December 5. Peggy Errey was born in ... Australia after World War II. She was a founding member of Australian Aid for Ireland and was a member of ...

  6. LEBANON: Palestinian refugees call for support

    war in our region while it cuts urgently needed aid programs to Palestinian women and children and the ... Women's Humanitarian Organisation, when she visited Australia in November. WHO provides humanitarian ... public services, despite paying GST on everything they buy”, Mahmoud explained. A few work, but because ...

  7. Socialist Alliance does better in Footscray, Geelong

    working class people to an election campaign that centred around opposition to the war on Iraq. ... On the Norlane High School booth we made a point of saying 'vote against war' to every ... Alliance candidate Brigette Ellery, a member of Radical Women, won 960 votes or 2.76% of the vote. The bulk ...

  8. Time to unite for a strong Socialist Alliance

    BY RAUL BASSI I am thrilled about the level of discussion on left unity. I have never before seen ... politics and trade unionism. The best I can do is try to pass on some experiences learned in those years. ... capitalist system and the political institutions in absolute crisis, the left groups have focused on their ...

  9. John Pilger: 'The Americans want Iraq's oil'

    speech was presented to the 20,000-strong Walk Against the War rally in the Sydney Domain on November ... are currently kept "on hold" in New York by the United States, with Britain's backing. ... contrived, if not conspired, to kill more people in Iraq than in many wars in my life time. They want to ...

  10. INDIA: Communists discuss resistance to 'communal fascism'

    privatisation of state industries and government services and removing restrictions on imports of manufactured ... welcoming the 750 congress delegates as they arrived by train on November 25. Armed police provided congress ... Maoist-anarchist Peoples War Group guerrilla bands, which have murdered several prominent CPI (ML) members in Bihar ...