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1. Campaign to free Filemon Lagman gains support

   By Max Lane MANILA — FILEMON, the Free Lagman Movement, was official launched on June 2 at the ... was captured by agents of Naval Intelligence in Manila on May 26. Lagman is the secretary of the ... which leads worker, urban poor, women's and student organisations with a mass activist base of ...

2. Poland slides deeper into crisis

   admirer of Marshal Pilsudski, Poland's dictator before the second world war. Some former presidential ... workers are on strike seeking a 30% pay rise; the aerospace industry has ground to a halt; and perhaps ... worked as agents for the former Stalinist regime. An attempt by the Parliamentary Women's Lobby to ...

3. US backs Habib’s torturer, but Arab world has changed

   dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak. Women have been on the frontline in the uprisings in Tunisia and ... democratic values (especially women’s rights) in the Middle East is a US priority. However, far from ... leaders merely called on him to make “reforms” and “listen to grievances”. After protesters rejected ...

4. Caroline Lund (1944-2006)

   articles, especially on issues of women's liberation, were republished as pamphlets, which we ... Caroline Lund, a lifelong fighter for socialism, workers' rights and women's liberation, ... died at her home in Oakland, California, on October 14, aged 62. She will be sorely missed by her ...

5. The Iraqi resistance in their own words

   agree with British MP and anti-war activist George Galloway's assessment in a speech given at the ... al-Assad Library in Damascus on July 30, 2005: "These poor Iraqis — ragged people, with their sandals, ... the names of their leaders. They are the base of this society. They are the young men and young women ...

6. Widespread opposition to US 'training centres'

   demonstrated to lead to an increase in assaults on women and children." NT defence minister Paul Henderson ... told the media on July 10 that he didn't believe there would "be a significant increase in ... the potential impact of sonar and military equipment on the marine environment of Shoalwater Bay, ...

7. President Clinton's world

   picture is, it is significantly worse for blacks, Latinos and women. The contradiction for Bill Clinton is ... is behind the changes. It is a real capitalist war without bullets being fired — yet. The military ... superiority of Washington makes that unlikely in the short term, but ultimately war is the way political ...

8. Put a socialist in NSW parliament

   the ALP.” Last week he was at it again in his address to the “Light on the Hill Society” at Revesby ... Workers Club in western Sydney. Calling for “bottom up” reforms, which included a prohibition on binding ... law” obligations that should be imposed on the parties receiving them. “If you break the law in the ...

9. VENEZUELA: Sea of red unleashes 'Bolivarian hurricane'

   Federico Fuentes A sea of red greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on September 1, as tens of ... re-election on December 3. Speaking of the presidential race, Chavez declared "Here there are only two ... candidates — Hugo Chavez and George Diablo [Devil] Bush. This is an election on whether we want to continue ...

10. SOUTH AFRICA: 800,000 public servants strike

    Norm Dixon On September 16, at least 800,000 government workers, including 300,000 teachers, took ... government's attempt to impose a three-year real-wage freeze on public servants. According to the COSATU, the ... African activist writing on the Debate e-discussion list, the Pretoria march, which he estimated was ...

11. Peru: Huge fraud allegations mar presidential vote, leftist scores high

    candidate Veronika Mendoza came third in the first round of Peru's presidential elections on April 10, ... electoral fraud and criminal financial backing. Her runoff election against Kuczynski is on June 5. The ... for showing that “a different type of political campaign, based on conviction and integrity” was ...

12. Ta-Nehisi Coates new comic is 'Black as hell'

    used to describe himself on Twitter a week ahead of the release of Black Panther #1, the highly ... every character on its pages. A writer for The Atlantic, Coates is best known for his landmark 2014 ... essay “The Case for Reparations” and last year's book Between the World and Me, a musing on ...

13. Knitting Nannas arrested in the Pilliga

    Three Knitting Nannas Against Gas were arrested on January 18 after chaining themselves to the gates of ... gas (CSG) waste is stored. Santos intends to build a reverse osmosis plant on this site to concentrate ... failure to comply with police direction. Jacobs explained why she had “locked on” to the gates: ...

14. Carlo's Corner: Forget the Gazans, what about Israeli kittens?

    safe to be filmed for amusing gifs on Tumblr! A great victory for the forces freedom-loving ... For example, on July 16, Israel dropped leaflets and used recorded phone messages to warn about ... actually have nowhere to go, because Israel walls them in on one side, and refuses to open its heavily ...

15. ISRAEL: The message of the bulldozer

    Demolitions (ICAHD) has been working on the issue of house demolitions. Every time we think: "OK, ... we've exhausted the subject, let's go on to other, perhaps more pressing issues", the ... houses belonging to families of terrorists, a form of collective punishment that is clearly a war crime. ...

16. The human right to water and sanitation

    Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on ... Environment Healthcare Economy United Nations (UN) On July 28, the UN General Assembly passed ... 1966 these were furthered in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights with ...

17. Danish Red-Green Alliance: Why we oppose anti-refugee law

    passing a savagely anti-refugee law. * * * On January 26, a broad majority in the Danish parliament passed ... of bill is the exclusion of refugees on “temporary protection status” (according to article 7.3 of ... residency. According to Danish law, the target group of this article is war refugees who are “not ...

18. Israeli land seizures continue as Palestinians vote

    for elections on January 20. On December 25 hundreds of acres of land were confiscated from the West ... construct a road six kilometres long and 150 metres wide. On December 26, Israeli bulldozers began levelling ... villages of Qalqilya and Tulkarm, and the Green Line marking Israel's border following the 1948 war ...

19. Letter from the US: Latino march demands rights and justice

    of Washington, D.C. and rallied near the White House on October 12 to press their demands on Congress ... century in terms of Latino-American political activism. I think from now on Washington will be confronted ... thing, but this is something new. It's on a broader scale." Chicanos is a term used by many ...

20. Turnbull v Abbott: Same shit, different shovel

    that we have just switched captains on a leaky boat — appropriate metaphor don’t you think — and the ... imaginary friend’s blessing. As “First Dog on the Moon” noted in a cartoon published in Guardian Australia ... on February 4, during the first attempted coup against Abbott: “Hubris is the word that best ...

21. Twenty-first century socialism conference to be held in Sydney

    Association (AIARLA) Gadigal Country/Sydney An important conference for activists will be held in Sydney on ... May 13 to 15. “Socialism for the 21st Century” will focus on deepening the discussion about the theory ... capitalist system. Many young people have only known continuous war and conflict over resources, territory ...

22. Turkey: Left party takes centre stage with bold campaign

    discriminated against across the country. This includes women, workers, the Alevi religious community, ... began withdrawing its armed forces to bases in northern Iraq. The bloody civil war appeared to have ... election rallies waving a Koran. Bomb attacks On May 18, simultaneous bomb blasts hit HDP offices in the ...

23. Supporting the Iraqi workers' movement

    will welcome visits from unionists who have opposed the war on Iraq so that they can see for themselves ... particular, the Southern Oil Workers Union and the construction union... "On my second day in Basra, ... a demonstration of thousands for human rights, women's rights, workers' rights and for political ...

24. EAST TIMOR: Fretilin conference plans for the future

    for the re-establishment of the Democratic Republic declared by Fretilin on November 28, 1975 (that ... conference was, first, it is important for Fretilin to define its position on issues like the proclamation of ... on reconciliation within Fretilin. "We haven't had a chance to have this type of meeting in ...

25. Good citizens have a lot to answer for

    nothing about, while the young women in their "crowd" are simply hangers-on in the slipstream of ... War II. The social and political tensions of the time are delicately portrayed. The film is ... assimilated. The acknowledgement of the family's being Jewish is forced on them by the anti-Semitism of ...

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