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  1. Visiting unionist says Sri Lankan plantation workers face new casualisation threat

    Imperialism & war Indigenous Workers & unions Chris Slee Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union ... told a Refugee Action Collective meeting on July 21 that plantation workers have undergone 鈥200 years ... wages can be cut if the amount of tea picked is below the 鈥渘orm鈥. Most tea plantation workers are women ...

  2. Trump deports Venezuelans to El Salvador, threatens to tighten sanctions

    Democracy Far right Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean Refugees & ... migrants Chris Slee United States blockade on Venezuela deportations El Salvador The United States ... in 1798, this law was last invoked during World War II, when people of Japanese descent were put in ...

  3. Forum discusses democratic opportunities under new Sri Lankan government

    civil war on the island. Cooke linked the ethnic violence to the economy. He said that capitalism was ... Democracy Economy Elections Imperialism & war Chris Slee 2024 Sri Lankan elections 2022 Sri ... addressed a public forum organised by Australian Advocacy for Good Governance in Sri Lanka on March 22. It ...

  4. Refugee lawyer: Labor鈥檚 new anti-migrant laws the 鈥榟arshest in decades鈥

    organised by the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) on March 3 that Labor鈥檚 anti-immigrant laws are the ... year for refusing to cooperate with their deportation. Travel bans can be imposed on an entire country ... refugees. It allows curfews and ankle monitors to be used on former detainees, now living in the community, ...

  5. The media's war on firefighters

    Herald-Sun, had front page articles on March 6 attacking the proposed enterprise agreement covering ... firefighters employed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB). This agreement is currently being voted on by MFB ... staff. The Herald-Sun article focused on stirring up envy towards firefighters. It talked of the 19% pay ...

  6. Genocide condemned on Tamil Remembrance Day

    Remembrance Day on May 16. In 2009, the Sri Lankan military turned the beach of Mullivaikal into a war zone as ... Haigh, a former diplomat, said the Australian government 鈥渄idn鈥檛 want to report on the war against the ... from the Tamil Refugee Council said the war on Tamils was continuing. 鈥淭here were so many atrocities. ...

  7. Sri Lanka: Tamil women demand return of land

    Anti-racism Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Chris Slee Tamil Tamil Eelam ... Protesters have been camping outside a Sri Lankan Air Force base since January 31 at Keappaapulavu on the ... north-eastern coast of the island of Sri Lanka. Women are playing a leading role in the protest. They are ...

  8. Why the Taliban won

    collapsed and the mujahideen entered Kabul. The new rulers imposed severe restrictions on women. Their ... women. Women were still confined to the home. Girls鈥 schools usually existed only on paper, not in ... Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes By Anand Gopal Picador, New York, 2014 This book, published seven ...

  9. The Berlin Wall 30 years on

    Anti-racism Refugees & migrants Chris Slee Berlin Wall Cold War On November 9, 1989, the ... free meals there. There was progress on women's rights and gay rights. Abortion was legalised in ... East Germany in March 1990, and unity was formalised on October 3 of that year. The German government ...

  10. Turkey threatens northeast Syria

    Rojava and began to build a democratic system, based on women鈥檚 liberation and the participation of ... Democracy Imperialism & war Feminism Chris Slee Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) People's ... Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Donald Trump US ...

  11. Defeat of conscription in World War 1 remembered

    meeting in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick on the campaign against conscription during World War I. ... Imperialism & war Chris Slee World War I Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) conscription ... Michael Hamel-Green, a draft resister during the Vietnam War who is now an emeritus professor at Victoria ...

  12. Turkey steps up military intervention in Iraq

    National liberation Chris Slee Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Turkey's war on Kurdistan ... Turkish jets began bombing the Xakurke region of northern Iraq on May 26. The following day Turkish ... equal rights for women and the inclusion of ethnic and religious minorities. Rojava was attacked by ...

  13. Iran 'on verge of explosion', says socialist

    Women's Day rallies on campus and took part in women's liberation protests outside the university. ... Imperialism & war Democracy Chris Slee A former Tehran University student, Behzad Bargheri, ... spoke to 50 people at a public meeting on Iran on July 20. Bargheri told the meeting in Melbourne that ...

  14. Class conflict in the shadow of World War I

    sentiment grew as the war went on. It is also often assumed that young men were eager to join the army, ... anti-war and anti-conscription sentiment. On August 30, 1916, Labor Party Prime Minister Billy Hughes ... that the war had generated鈥. The strike started on the initiative of rank-and-file workers. Most union ...

  15. Black Wave tracks conflicts across the Islamic world

    people and enforce segregation of men and women in public. Women were banned from appearing on TV. Saudi ... PDPA government, which had progressive policies on issues such as women's rights and land reform, ... terrorist attacks on Sunnis. The result was sectarian war. Syria In 2011, there was an uprising against the ...

  16. 1916 conscription referendum remembered

    Prime Minister during World War II, he introduced conscription. On October 4, 1916, there was a one-day ... History Chris Slee 1916 conscription referendum World War I Australian Labor Party (ALP) John ... Curtin Adela Pankhurst Julia Guerin socialists pacifists the union movement women鈥檚 groups ...

  17. Syria: Shaky ceasefire in Idlib

    Imperialism & war Chris Slee Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Idlib Turkish president ... Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 5, where they agreed on ... for democracy, women鈥檚 rights and equal rights for all religious and ethnic groups. This democratic ...

  18. Syria: People of Idlib resist Assad, Islamists

    Imperialism & war Chris Slee Nusra Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ... taxes imposed by HTS on goods and services, including bread, electricity and olive oil. They stormed ... to continue their resistance against the militants. "On November 6, HTS forces besieged the town ...

  19. Chinese Revolution 60 years on: socialist revolution, capitalist restoration

    After the defeat of Japan in 1945, war broke out again between the CP and the pro-capitalist Guomintang, ... revolution, a large section of people lived on the brink of starvation. This lowered resistance to disease so ... 69.6 years for women and 67 for men, Ruth and Victor Sidel's 1982 book, The Health of China, said. ...

  20. Sri Lanka: New Tamil protests against repression

    Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Chris Slee Tamil women whose relatives are ... missing completed a three-day hunger strike at Nalloor, a town in the north of Sri Lanka, on March 8. The ... women, led by Northern Provincial Council member Ananthy Sasitharan, were demanding an international ...

  21. Syria: Assad threatens Idlib while Afrin resists Turkish occupation

    Democracy Imperialism & war National liberation Chris Slee Bashar al-Assad Syrian Democratic ... SDF is the military alliance of forces that supports a secular, democratic and federal Syria, based on ... self-determination. Turkey has long denied its Kurdish population democratic rights and fought a decades-long war ...

  22. Sri Lanka: Torture continues, perpetrators promoted

    against men and women detained by the Sri Lankan police鈥檚 Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) over the ... past decade. Sri Lanka鈥檚 bloody civil war ended in 2009, after nearly 30 years of conflict between the ... Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan armed forces. The report is based on interviews ...

  23. Sri Lanka still not safe for Tamils

    danger On September 18 the Federal Court will hear an appeal by a Tamil family against their impending ... a detention centre in Broadmeadows, a Melbourne suburb. The family were taken to Melbourne airport and put on ... a chartered聽plane on the night of August 29. The intention was to deport them to Sri Lanka, but an injunction issued ...

  24. Sri Lanka: Tamils defy army to remember dead

    Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Chris Slee Students and staff at Jaffna ... University lit candles on May 21 to remember the Tamils who died in May 2009 when the Sri Lankan army carried ... out a genocidal onslaught in the final days of the island's decades-long civil war. Tens of ...

  25. Sri Lanka: Tamils demand international investigation into missing persons

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Democracy Chris Slee Tamils Tamil Eelam Tamil About ... 150 relatives of missing people protested outside a hearing of the Presidential Commission on Missing ... Persons in Trincomalee, a city on the east coast of Sri Lanka, on February 28. The protesters were mainly ...

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