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Behind the war in Jaffna
Behind the war in Jaffna The recent offensive by the Sri Lankan army against the Tamil people ... University and spokesperson for the Tamil Sangam, Queensland about the background to the war. Tamil and ... 1949, Tamils who had been brought by the British from India to work on the tea plantations were ...
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Telling the truth about the Spanish Civil War
mid-December Reviewed by Peter Boyle The Spanish Civil War of 1936-38 was one of the great historical events in ... the 20th century. It was built upon great heroism and sacrifice on the part of Spanish workers and ... volunteers in the fight against Franco's fascists. Ken Loach's Land and Freedom is based on the ...
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On the box
On the box Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous ... Bent TV, gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and Fridays, 2.30am. XX, women's program, ... appalling Christmas special but a witty Norwegian spoof on the rampant consumerism that overwhelms yuletide ...
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Iraq still suffering from the blockade
on women. But, according to Mahmood this is a pretext as this has been criticised many times before. ... for Saddam Hussein on October 15 served to show the world that the Hussein regime is still in control ... sanctions imposed in 1990 — 500,000 since the end of the Gulf War — than the Iraqi regime in a quarter of ...
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The Zapatistas speak out
Chiapas uprising on January 1, 1994, has provoked a national crisis. It has challenged the direction of ... Mexico's future and won the defiant solidarity of many in Mexico and throughout the world for its attack on ... "War Diary" portray the uprising. A number of these also indicate the leading role being played by ...
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A year of struggle
and students are on strike and in the streets, setting a powerful example of resistance to the ... Afro-American men and women took to the streets in the Million Man March. In the first half of the 1990s, the ... otherwise, had embarked on a brutal campaign of privatisation, cutbacks to social services, wage and job ...
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The lessons of the Wobblies
workers. And, unlike other socialist organisations at the time, it generally did not exclude women from ... speak. The IWW was the most determined group opposing World War I and its strength in the workers' ... movement grew as a result. Workers, urged to accept worsening conditions for "the sake of the war ...
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The Maohi people's fight for justice
testing over 180 nuclear bombs (1966-92) on their islands. They are moving to reassert their inalienable ... in outrage to Chirac's resumption of nuclear testing, has kept significantly silent on the issue ... the costs of colonisation. President of the Women's Association of Tavini Huiraatira, Marguerite ...
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Xanana: "We resist to win"
Timor. On August 18, 1983 former Prime Minister Bob Hawke gave de jure recognition to the Suharto ... a prison cell in Jakarta, XANANA GUSMAO smuggled out a tape recording to JOHN PILGER of his views on East ... Indonesian regime. This interview was first published in the London Guardian on December 2. Despite ...