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1. Bougainville shows its courage and community

   An Evergreen Island Frontyard Films Made by Mandy King and Fabio Cavadini Screening on SBS, 7.30pm ... traditional landowners, the women, refused to allow the mine to go ahead after the copper deposit was ... government turned on ordinary Bougainvilleans; many people were forced into the jungle. Of the 12,000 ...

2. Big Brother is watching

   itinerant workers, the mentally ill, women on the run from domestic violence, non-English speaking migrants ... issue cards with computer chips — so-called smart cards — to 7 million pensioners, war veterans, ... information technology and data entry, it will be impossible to prevent a trade in the information on the ...

3. Ramos' visit: a Filipina's view

   Filipina women are second only to the Aborigines in experiencing domestic violence, almost always within ... gold" has meant that we are now voting with our feet. On August 18, Philippines President Fidel Ramos ... he claims that our nation is on the threshold of being a newly industrialising country. We should be ...

4. The poetic life of a revolutionary

   principles he went to live in Moscow in 1922. In 1924, after the Turkish war of independence, Hikmet returned ... a futuristic poet; Vera Piraia and other women who strongly influenced his poetry and prose. A general amnesty ... prison on trumped up charges. Between 1929 and 1933, Hikmet published nine books, five collections and ...

5. Vision for the future

   has had. On our first day we visited Chambuta refugee camp for Mozambicans. "Equipped" for ... fleeing from war- torn Mozambique, often without loved ones. A wall in the administrator's office is ... were lakes and rivers. They held not a drop of water. Women with sunken eyes, walking apparitions, ...

6. Castro: Without justice, no social development

   United Nations Summit on Social Development, held in Copenhagen in March. The text is from Granma ... International. "Life is built on a dream, and dreams are dreams", as Calderon de la Barca, the famous ... skills from where they are most needed; where women, indigenous peoples, black and other ethnic groups ...

7. British rail union leader: ‘We must back Corbyn and fight for socialism’

   organisation of about 84,000 workers, 79,000 of which work on the trains, metro, buses, taxis, as well as about ... 5000 seafarers on British ships. The struggles we’ve been involved in recently have been about the ... profits through cutting staff numbers. People feel vulnerable when there are no staff on stations. The ...

8. The Russian Revolution: The greatest of people's movements

   worse its behaviour. With the Cold War over, there are more wars going on today than ever. As the ... More than 100 people gathered at Granville Town Hall in Sydney's western suburbs on November ... by-the-minute reports on the latest count give the impression that the outcome is of earth-shattering importance ...

9. South Africa: 'Guns not butter' budget criticised

   ruling African National Congress (ANC) has been criticised for introducing an annual budget on February ... terms, or just keep pace with inflation, depending on whether the government achieves its goal of a 3-6% ... Government spending on housing and community services has been slashed by 7.7%. Spending on tertiary ...

10. Turkey: Youth are still fighting amid plans for People's Assemblies, leftist says

    movements and faith groups. It was supported by intellectuals, artists, LGBTI activists, youth, women ... the newly active young people and women. We know that young people are watching HDK closely and many ... was never any hesitation. We met a new generation of youth and women and realised that this new ...

11. Letter from the US: Fresh racist Supreme Court ruling

    economies were based on involuntary labour. It took another revolution, the bloody Civil War, to overthrow ... on April 22 that states can ban affirmative action in admissions to their public universities. At ... enrollment of Black and Latino students. The racist ruling came on top of last year's Supreme Court that ...

12. Beat boys get political

    Up", critics pointed to an early Beastie video featuring women in chains. The Boys now say this whole ... image was all due to major label pressure on impressionable youths. However their early success gave the ... Beasties considerable independence. Their second, 1989, album, Paul's Boutique, released on their own ...

13. SOUTH KOREA: Growing calls for revision of US troops' status

    politicians have moved to control and contain this growing scepticism. On July 24, the National ... of civilians in the village of Nogun-ri during the Korean War made international news. Testimony from ... some of the US troops involved, as well as recently declassified Pentagon documents, shed light on ...

14. A step towards European left unity

    found themselves working together on key questions such as the Gulf War, the rejection of austerity and ... a massive strike wave against the austerity plans necessitated by Maastricht's stipulations on economic ... launched an appeal for "an assembly of the European left" to be held in Paris on June 12. This ...

15. High noon in Nepal — eyewitness to revolution

    women, minorities and workers had direct representation. The Maoists were willing to negotiate on almost ... (UCPN-M) Kathmandu On May 1 in Kathmandu, between 500,000-1 million people took over the streets in ... old feudal monarchy had been finally brought down by a combination of ten years of “people’s war ...

16. Refounding Bolivia: struggle for the new constitution

    Raul Burbano Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum on the ... country's new draft constitution on December 7. The demand of the Bolivian people for a new and inclusive ... political life. On the other side are the vast majority of the Bolivians, with Morales winning more than 67% ...

17. The Somalian spiral

    replaced the traditional Somali production systems. The indigenous economy was based predominantly on ... nomadic pastoralism. The modern economy that replaced the traditional economy was monetised and based on ... Milking animals were kept here so that the base camp household, composed of the women, children and ...

18. ITALY: Communist Party debates way forward

    The closest votes of the entire conference were on the issue of women's participation in the PRC. ... Amendments from women delegates opposing a quota of at least 40% female representation on leadership bodies ... and proposing instead a sustained attack on the real causes of lack of women comrades' ...

19. Socialism or barbarism?

    Marx's important insights on ecology restored, socialism committed to the fight against ecological ... who repeatedly raised it during World War I. It was a profound concept, one that has become ever more ... would become ever more barbaric, wiping out centuries of gains in civilisation. In a major 1915 anti-war ...

20. AFGHANISTAN: Washington reins in its 'liberators'

    Washington, London, Pakistan and other supporters of the "war on terrorism" were insisting that ... were also on sale. Some of the braver women lifted their burqas to reveal their faces to Western ... reporters (but quickly replaced them once the journalists had moved on). The NA has declared that women will ...

21. Iraq: Turkey begins imposing sanctions

    organisation on November 4 said that 2.3 million Iraqis — mostly women and children — have fled their homes in ... economic sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan by stopping flights between Istanbul" and Irbil, capital of the ... would have a devastating impact on the economy of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is dependent on supplies coming ...

22. Kashmir: freedom struggle confronts barbarism

    to intimidate one another have raised a real danger of a nuclear war. These capabilities were ... improved little since China's 1962 war with India. The US has frequently meddled in the subcontinent, ... Muslims, as opposed to their Hindu competitors who dominated the rest of India. Pakistan seized on the ...

23. 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 ...

24. The real threat to peace in the Middle East

    Australian government — has been any mention of the PLO 's real position on the Gulf War or the ... to feed her baby on the balcony of her apartment in Nablus. Ibrahim Abu-Jalal was shot dead for ... of Palestinian-Israeli peace on the basis of a two-state settlement. Nusseibeh was arrested and ...

25. Moore recounts a trouble-making history

    on Abraham Lincoln and the civil war that ended slavery, Moore attacked the contest’s sponsor, the ... can’t women become priests. As Moore had to be reminded by Church authorities, “you either have to ... a reluctant Moore declined an appearance on national TV — “there wasn’t enough Clearasil in the world to get ...

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