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1. No choice but to protest Howard's terror laws

   sinking of SIEV X on October 1, 2001, which killed 353 innocent asylum-seekers, mostly women and children, ... service by making public on October 14 the proposed raft of counter-terrorism legislation that PM John ... Howard had laid confidentially before Australian premiers a few weeks ago on September 27. (See ...

2. PALESTINE: Why Palestinians hate Sharon

   the Israeli army. During the 1956 Suez war against Egypt, Sharon embarked on a series of moves which ... parliamentarian and professor at Birzeit University, in January. "On the one hand, Sharon claims to be able ... to deliver 'peace' with the Palestinians and with the Arab world, while promising, on the ...

3. South Africa invades Lesotho

   In February, Lesotho police opened fire on 2800 striking women textile workers, killing four. ... By Norm Dixon As South Africans awoke on September 22 and tuned their radios to the morning news, ... raid on the Lesotho capital, Maseru, in which 42 people were massacred, including 30 African National ...

4. Bill of rights and participatory democracy

   "foreign aid", and attacks on the rights of women and indigenous people. Such policies have been ... discussion of the practical implications, mainly reliance on the (reasonable) proposition that "everyone ... decades of post-war Aboriginal, migrant and popular struggle to defeat and reject the White Australia ...

5. Carlo's Corner: Clive Palmer, the CIA and the real extremists ripping us off

   — a representative of the huge capitalist interests on behalf of whom News Ltd is waging its war — insisting it is ... destroying all life on Earth. Palmer probably got a furious call from Rupert himself, shouting: “What the ... War?” Perhaps this is why Palmer was so keen to clarify he only meant the Queensland Greens were CIA ...

6. Defying the regime — Iran's people demand change

   popular perception, these gatherings included women in chadors, workers and clerics — not just the ... Neda Salehi Agha Soltan, shot dead by the Basiji state-run militia on June 20, have appeared on ... placards. On June 25, the BBC said opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi used his website to re-assert ...

7. Letters to the editor

   agree. In my opinion a feminist or women's liberationist is a woman, who is aware of her oppression ... as a woman and who fights for her liberation. Men who understand this oppression and support women in ... obvious reasons. When men involve themselves in struggles for women's rights and ultimately for ...

8. Resistance: 'Why we are socialists'

   employers." After the July 24 walkouts against racism, Marina debated One Nation's David Oldfield on the ... as well, war, crime, alienation — you name it. "There is no need for any of these evils — they ... becomes possible to abolish exploitation, which is what the profits of capitalists are based on. Social ...

9. Guatemala: The people await true justice

   a Latin American court on January 28. The prosecution believe they have compelling evidence that Montt led ... missing during Guatemala's 1960-96 civil war. In 1999, a UN sponsored truth commission found that ... civil war. Until January 14 last year, he had immunity from prosecution as a serving congressman. Human ...

10. Stories of Aboriginal survival

    Australian government, particularly in the 20th century. From men and women from all walks of life and tribal ... "race" was dying out. He argues that the policy was a biological model based on ... were placed on reserves by force, criminalising any resistance. The fear of a growing Black population ...

11. A peace camp in Sarajevo

    Sarajevo and being an observation post on the war and the human rights situation. The solidarity objectives ... consisting of about 500 people, mainly from Italian peace organisations, arrived in Sarajevo late on December ... 11 and held the peace demonstration on December 12. There were no casualties among the participants ...

12. IRAQ: US holds fire for election

    the US public on the war and reducing its chances of re-election. Massacres to come But, as Dickey ... continue its daily air strikes on the city. That same day, US military officials issued a media release ... shelling and tank assaults — failed to retake the rebel city. On May 1, the US marines formally handed over ...

13. Help rebuild a free East Timor

    destroyed. Yet, the common graffiti on these buildings — "Don't cry East Timor, we will rise from ... involves mostly women using traditional brooms. These women work all day for a kilo of rice. It is ... having been complicit in war crimes against the Timorese, pay reparations. These could be funded by ...

14. The French far-left's campaign in the European election

    This liberal-libertarian, who backed NATO's war on Serbia, relentlessly proclaims that he is ... impatience) — the constant and dedicated militant activity of thousands of men and women — finally ... non-Communist candidates who rarely agreed on the same issues at the same time, a list which nobody could ...

15. Balzac: an unwitting revolutionary

    placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by the Pope in 1864 and to have been praised by the ... largely "written by women and read by servants". Balzac shaped the novel into its modern form, ... giving it a social significance by making it "an expression of society". Balzac was on the ...

16. ANGOLA: The crisis you aren't hearing about

    civilian medical structures. Many are dying of starvation on the roads. Others find themselves in towns and ... Many women were forcibly “married” to UNITA soldiers. Those who fled to the government-held towns found ... just as trapped as those in the UNITA areas. Now the full scale of the devastation is emerging. On ...

17. Scapegoating can't save the planet

    more because women are empowered. On the other hand, patriarchal values are reinforced by poverty and ... technologically advanced society like Australia is wreaking havoc on the environment. To get rid of the straw ... to all women who want it. In short, there is no argument about whether the world is in serious ...

18. Students support radical action

    Sydney on May 5. *** I am in Year 11 at a school in Sydney’s inner-west, and like many other high school ... students, I care about refugee and queer rights, as well as for the rights of women, the rights of ... question had already been asked and refused to answer it. That nine-minute video made the rounds on ...

19. Brazilian army invades Rio

    Masked soldiers, armed with modern guns, violently search even pregnant women and children of eight and ... worker, Jose Luis Sobrinho, was shot in the arm by a marine with a machine gun on November 20. Sobrinho is ... Morro do Borel, was on his way to school on November 26. Soldiers decided to inspect him, found neither ...

20. The use-value of postmodernism

    this. His recent claim the that the Gulf War "never happened" is not denying that something ... in the Gulf as a "war" is media "hyperreality". This hyperreality obscures ... resembling a "war"; the vicious exploitation, internal and external, perpetrated by Kuwait's ...

21. ZIMBABWE: Creating the tipping point

    a war cry at our rallies, people in civic society were using their phones and time to inform on MDC ... Briggs Bomba The cruel impact of the Zimbabwean crisis on the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans can no ... beasts preying on each other. Would-have-been engineers and responsible community members are now thugs ...

22. We kid you not

    against people and make trouble." — Afghan feminist and anti-war campaigner Malalai Joya in ... the new killer on the block, authorising more drone attacks in the first year of his term in office ... trade, changing the profile of drug dealers, police say... "Most of the women apprehended this year ...

23. Mass campaign needed to stop Reith's 'second wave'

    war between the employers and the workers. "We are on the side of profit. We are on the side of ... Perth on August 10, Adelaide on August 11 and Melbourne on August 12. There will be further actions in ... calling on their members to stop work to take part. The demonstrations will consist primarily of workers ...

24. VENEZUELA: Left populist wins landslide victory

    direction have been, so far, mostly only on paper. After considerable legal battles he managed to have a new ... level, indigenous and women's rights, a reduction of the working week and an increase in the minimum ... he has refused to allow the US Air Force to use Venezuelan air space to prosecute the war against ...

25. Life of Riley: Dem damn Dems!

    with a bang up shootin' war courtesy of Bill Clinton and NATO, 50 Aussie wallopers soon set to ... about it! I'm lucky to know which shoe goes on which foot. What we really need is our own adviser ... Despoja and ethics? You want those things? You want liberated women — sisters doing it for all of us ...

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