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  1. Muslim-bashing won't advance women's rights

    "We'll start listening to Howard and Costello on discrimination and violence against women when, for ... emphasised that while the sheikh's comments on violence against women are plain wrong and criminalise ... imperialist wars on the Middle East, and we were proud to receive greetings at our recent national conference ...

  2. International Women鈥檚 Day celebrates 100 years

    Feminism Lisa Macdonald On March 8, women鈥檚 rights campaigners around the world will celebrate the ... (including as the main family breadwinner) than ever before, full-time women workers earn, on average, 18% ... three-quarters of whom are also part-time. Over a lifetime, that gap compounds into a big impact on women ...

  3. What does What Women Want want?

    issues that make or break families and communities and impact so greatly on women, who have to juggle ... Lisa Macdonald What Women Want (Australia) is a new political party formed in April that obtained ... federal electoral registration in August. It currently has almost 780 members, women and men, and is ...

  4. Women must still struggle for real equality

    * * * This International Women鈥檚 Day, on March 8, falls at a time when the environmental and economic crises ... Horrendous working conditions faced by women entering the workforce before and during World War I gave rise ... in Australia. Whether they are among the 70% of women working part-time or on short-term contracts, ...

  5. Malaysian socialist to address January conference

    Alliance's national conference on behalf of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM). She told 91自拍论坛 Weekly ... the anti-war movement, and in the mass campaign against the Internal Security Act 鈥 a draconian, ... address the public meeting to open the Socialist Alliance conference, at 7pm on January 2 at the ...

  6. The consequences of blaming Muslims

    of the fear and hatred of Muslims that is being generated by the "war on terror". ... community" for the government's pro-war, anti-civil liberties policies. Reporting on the summit to media ... in the firing line. In recent weeks the government has floated legislation tantamount to a war on ...

  7. Latin American left leaders to visit Australia

    endless wars 鈥 it is sometimes easy to feel discouraged about our ability to change 鈥渢he way things are鈥. ... movements are challenging the plunder, war and injustices of the old system, toppling neoliberal ... the 21st century鈥 is building on the Cuban revolution in proving what popular power can achieve. The ...

  8. Socialist Alliance conference to prepare for struggle

    with desperate victims of war and oppression. Howard's "Pacific solution" is now ... on the evening of January 2 called "Their crises: our solutions". It will introduce some of ... January 3-5 will introduce resolutions on: the political situation; socialist electoral strategy and ...