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1. Kurdish women fighters brought to life on the big screen

   a woman, focusing on a squad of the Kurdish autonomous women’s protection units (YPJ). The systematic ... film contributes to telling their story. Syria March 16, 2019 1214 Women fighters taking on ISIS in ... Film & theatre Feminism Barry Healy Rojava Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Islamic State ...

2. Stories of Vietnamese women in the struggle for liberation

   2020, 342 pp., $29.99 The Saigon Sisters, Privileged Women in the Resistance By Patricia D. Norland ... colonialism and then the US-led invasion. The two books’ value is in highlighting the strength of women in the ... grew up in northern Vietnam surrounded by the devastation the war left in its wake. She worked as ...

3. Anti-war GIs: Two books unveil the anti-Vietnam War movement among US soldiers

   style to show the terrible personal cost inflicted on at least one anti-war Vet. One story that marks ... would use them on their own officers. During the Vietnam War about 420,000 US personnel deserted, ... Books & music History Barry Healy Vietnam War Scott Camil Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers ...

4. New documentary celebrates Indigenous and working-class leader Bill Onus

   a war hero who gained work on the trams but was driven out by racism. The film was also linked to a New ... a WWII Army uniform walking down a street and talking with some Aboriginal women in a doorway. There are ... working as a conductor on a Melbourne tram, an Aboriginal man demonstrating culture to Aboriginal youths ...

5. Acid, sex and brutality in London and Beijing

   calls “revolutionary wives”. These are imaginative biographical novels drawing on the lives of women who ... playing out similar psychological dramas, with terrible effects on those around them. Iris and Eva in ... penis early on. This time it is an LSD-drenched hippie orgy in London. It is a cheap way of drawing in ...

6. Class war and the Anglican schism

   have centred on the right of women and homosexuals to be priests and bishops, and gay marriage. ... However, while theological arguments dating back centuries are being mouthed, behind them are class war ... Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem in late June, is formally at war with the liberal Canadian and US Episcopal ...

7. Mark Dapin's Vietnam War novel — cynical, emotionally wounded males run amok

   talent for mining laughs out of pain that is on show in this Vietnam War-based novel. Dapin also has ... History Books & music Barry Healy Racism sexism Vietnam War militarism R&R: A Novel By ... a keen interest in men at war and criminals. He has edited two collections of Australian war reportage ...

8. The magnificence and the tragedy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party

   Rainbow Coalition included street gangs that had previously been warring with each other, like the Crowns ... several fold. That united front work put Hampton on the radar of arch-reactionary FBI boss J Edgar Hoover. ... working-class movement dangerous to US capitalism — a “messiah”. Black leaders on Hoover’s “messiah” list, which included ...

9. Heaven or Hell? Books look back on the German Democratic Republic

   Imperialism & war Workers & unions Socialism Democracy Economy Education Housing ... studied in the GDR between 1964 and '68 and then worked on GDR television for 20 years. De la Motte ... the USSR after World War II. It was established in response to the Allies’ 1949 decision to create ...

10. Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution

    counter-revolution.” The revolutionaries “could feel it all around us, on the watch, looking for our weakness, our ... mistakes, our follies, skilfully making us stumble, ready at the slightest lapse to pounce on us and tear us ... evidenced. From the beginning, the Bolsheviks ruled essentially on an emergency basis. For example, they had ...

11. Misogynistic barbarity of Taliban rule illustrated

    of the Alliance Française French Film Festival This film, made by two women, is an animated ... of the watercolour animation. The plot focuses on two couples, Taliban prison guard Atiq and his ... None are happy under Taliban rule. Atiq is disillusioned and confused, wearily limping from a war ...

12. A new, punk Beowulf

    and conflicting perspectives on the problem of translation and the Danish society it depicts. It was ... shards of earlier social structures can be discerned as world view is piled on world view and now topped ... luxuriously about beloved gold, an elderly woman is able to make viable physical war against all the king’s ...

13. Three Dutch heroines who fought the Nazis

    Europe in World War II. As Sophie Poldermans records: “It stirred up resistance throughout the ... Netherlands.” Among those who risked their lives in the struggle were three young women: Hannie Schaft and the ... Communist and became active in sheltering Jewish refugees well before the war. As militants of the ...

14. Operation Peter Pan: How the US stole 14,000 Cuban children

    Cuba. To make good on that they inspired 100,000 young students, the majority of them women, to go to rural ... war against Cuba. The most violent of these was the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961. But around the ... made on behalf of Cuba’s children but largely made by young Cubans.” The US succeeded in extracting ...

15. The hell that was British India

    example, on the Patuakhali islands, 85% of the boys and 90% of the girls drowned. The area’s women lived ... Books & music Imperialism & war Barry Healy India Bengalis food shortages floods An ... properties”. It was the poor who suffered, with a particular loss of life among women and children. For ...

16. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising: ‘Against the occupier until the very end’

    and follow us on Twitter. Germany Poland August 5, 2014 1020 Women and children being rounded up by ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism Middle East Democracy National liberation Barry Healy The Ghetto ... was set on fire, and the blood of its mercilessly killed defenders, we, the slaves of the Ghetto, ...

17. Life and death under Russian capitalism

    conservative line on the "natural" roles of men and women. "We have an obligation to bring up ... Russia shows that seen both objectively and subjectively capitalism has brought an assault on ... 14,000 Russian women die at the hands of their partners (compared to total Soviet fatalities of 17,000 in ...

18. The romantics’ claws that may tear Pyne's vision-- investigating Shelley and Austen

    to the first born son), the Dashwood girls are dependent on catching a financially well-endowed ... essentially connected. Single women saddled with a child were socially doomed, with prostitution their only ... women from prostitution and oppression. Capitalism’s great promise is individual freedom, yet how could ...

19. A confused critique of capitalism

    slave market in which these women are put on the auction block. This is gut-wrenching reading but her ... 2008 292 pages, $29.95 (pb) I was attracted to this book after hearing Loretta Napoleoni on ABC radio ... on June 2. In a short, punchy talk she made the most astonishing attacks on modern capitalism. There ...

20. Full-blooded art, antiseptic gallery

    Africa was particularly violent and sparked an anti-war movement. Visually, African art objects brought ... a new world ― in short, all that was solid was being thrown in the air. The Balkan Wars, followed by ... World War I and then the Russian revolution, fractured the old, frozen river of European history, ...

21. The harsh logic of occupying other people's countries

    Anti-racism Middle East Democracy Barry Healy Soldaten, On Fighting, Killing & Dying: The ... mouths of the perpetrators makes it all the more shocking. During world War II, the Allies bugged the ... private quarters of German prisoners of war to obtain intelligence. The records were buried deep in ...

22. Hollywood’s 'cultural moment' takes aim at young girls

    and Divergent films demonstrated that young women want to see strong female characters on screen and ... issued a joint press release on April 22 saying they were releasing a tsunami of marketing targeted at ... featuring strong, athletic bodies that stand on their own in heroic poses”, movies with interconnected plot ...

23. The revolutionary life and tumultuous times of Ernest Mandel

    aged 71 on July 20, 1995. These two documentaries reveal why he was so respected but also expose ... International and worked closely with Belgian union leader Andre Renard on developing a radical program for the ... particularly the rise of Lumumba's nationalist government in the Congo and the Algerian revolutionary war ...

24. John Paul II: patron saint of anti-modernism

    drew 1.5 million of the devout to Rome on May 1 for the beatification ceremony of Karol Wojtyla, Pope ... canonisation of Pius XII, who was pope during World War II. While attention has been drawn to John Paul II’s ... woeful record on the issue of sexual abuse within the church, little has been said about the reasons for ...

25. White lies about Black Australia

    she emphasises reports of violent treatment of women within Aboriginal society. She counterposes her ... primitive communism, which holds that Aboriginal society was based on shared poverty, depending on the ... when the Aborigines experienced the life of free workers as army labourers during World War II, then ...

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