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  1. The fight to win the vote for women

    politics of working-class women 鈥 on the barricades, in riots and in revolutions. As the British historian ... imprescriptible and inalienable rights鈥. On August 26, 1789, the French National Assembly voted for a 鈥淒eclaration ... resistance to oppression鈥. In 1791, the Duc de la Rochelle鈥檚 Committee on Mendicancy declared the 鈥渞ight to ...

  2. Willie McBride vs the fortunate sons 鈥 anti-war song controversies prove popular culture matters

    a self-deprecating reference to the anti-war songs on his 2004 album Real Gone 鈥 inspired by the Bush ... adminstration's wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. Waits noted: 鈥淏ut then I think, look how important soul music was ... spear. But folks in the arts 鈥 it's their job to put a human face on the war.鈥 Clearly no song, no ...

  3. Kurdish future hangs on Kobane resistance

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Democracy National liberation Amed Dickle On the ... world map, Kobane falls in the north of Syria, right on the border with Turkey. According to the Kurds, ... Kobane to Qamislo, many families were divided into two. One brother remained on one side of the train ...

  4. John Pilger: The US plot against Assange

    investigation to take its course. The Guardian was then on the brink of publishing the Iraq 鈥War Logs鈥, based on ... unanswered as Ny deployed the European Arrest Warrant, a draconian product of the 鈥war on terror鈥 supposedly ... Ecuador's offer of sanctuary is not questioned by the UK or Sweden.鈥 On March 18, 2008, a war on WikiLeaks ...

  5. Past education campaign lessons for today

    from the Vietnam War. Students were not only shocked by the disturbing images of the war on the TV news ... Alliance member and student protester during the 1960s Jim McIlroy said the Vietnam War and the ... movement at the time was quite small, with the largest group on campus being the Democratic Labour Party. ...