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1. 'Boycott Israel' campaign challenges apartheid

   integrity and falsely accused them of anti-Semitism. The war on BDS is part of a concerted effort to ... Recently, Federal MP Andrew Robb on ABC radio attacked the Greens accusing them of being anti-Semitic. Does ... Robb has indulged himself with on air. The call to boycott Israel did not come about because Israel has ...

2. Britain: Left unity push amid austerity turmoil

   — lost heavily in municipal elections in England on May 2 to the United Kingdom Independence Party ... 1994, was eventually torn apart by the personal top-down control on which he insisted and his refusal to ... significant forces from the Labour left. It was split when the SP walked out in opposition to SA being run on ...

3. South Korea: the failed miracle

   tuition fees and the arrest of their student council leader outside Myongji University on April 26 when ... cabinet and the disbanding of the riot police. On May 1 in Seoul, 20,000 students and workers fought ... pitched battles with riot police after holding a May Day rally on the campus of Yonsei University. Using ...

4. Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still detained, torture alleged

   ethnic minority, have become indefinite “prisoners of war” ever since the LTTE was militarily defeated by ... surrendered during the last stage of war. The fate of some is unknown, while others have been located in ... started to “resettle” in her war-ravaged hometown in the largely Tamil north, she has made just a few ...

5. Byron: high-voltage radicalism

   the Continent in 1809. The horrors of the French/Spanish war and the theft of Greece's ... archaeological treasures by Lord Elgin, however, awoke him to the ills of the world. One of the worst ills was on ... used his maiden speech to oppose a bill to make frame-breaking a capital offence and to heap scorn on ...

6. UNITED STATES: Will 'imperial overreach' lead to the draft?

   war secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is increasingly relying on "stop loss" orders, which prevent ... Global War on Terrorism" and that because of the 24-month cap on reservists' mobilisation ... Rohan Pearce "I hear there's rumours on the internets [sic] that we're going to ...

7. Population and consumption: Two sides of the one coin

   resource consumption on Earth is dependent upon two factors: our individual rates of resource consumption, ... and the total number of people on the Earth. There is widespread global concern that we are coming ... unbalanced. To address this imbalance, we have two options (bar intergalactic travel). On the one hand, we ...

8. Eritrea: out of the ashes

   country's war-damaged infrastructure. To this end, the entire EPLF army of 95,000 young men and women has ... rolled into this Eritrean capital atop captured Soviet tanks on May 24, jubilant citizens poured out of ... people of Eritrea remain elated over the end of their 30-year war for independence. But the dancing is ...

9. 500 Years of Plunder — from Columbus to corporate America

   cannon fodder, of 25,000 mobilised during the Second World War, 10,000 died. On December 16, 1492, ... ir mandate. Among the Iroquois, men and women govern on an equal footing. Chiefs are men, but they ... essential aspects of the life of the confederation. Around 1600 when the Iroquois men launched a war on ...

10. The ALP left: isolated from socialism

    poor to the rich. It has betrayed on the environment, on women's rights, on Aboriginal rights, on ... ALP: A prison for the left", (GLW #160) in which I argued that a socialist strategy based on ... privatisation and on student fees. The federal Labor government is an ally of the brutal military junta in ...

11. Ariel Sharon: a man without a conscience

    into refugee camps and villages. In one notorious attack on Jordan in 1953, Unit 101, under ... Sharon's command, slaughtered 69 civilians, over half of them women and children, when they blew up their ... Israelis who took random blood revenge on Bedouins for Arab attacks on Israeli settlements. By this time ...

12. Tamils speak out against genocide

    what's going on in the country. It's a matter of urgency at the moment to put an end to this war ... a result of oppressive policies against the Tamil minority on the island, and successive Sri Lankan ... civilians are trapped in a "no-fire zone" on a narrow stretch of land. The zone is under a brutal ...

13. PNG attacks central Bougainville

    capital, Arawa, in the early hours of October 21. The attack is likely to reignite the bitter guerilla war ... women of good will" to condemn this act of military aggression directed against the defenceless ... expressed in recent resolutions passed by the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights and the ...

14. BRA controls 80% of Bougainville, says Gillespie

    Papua New Guinea government that it is in control of the island. Speaking to 91������̳ Weekly on March ... land. They are determined to fight on, to win independence." Gillespie travelled extensively in ... central and southern Bougainville. "Everywhere I went the landowners — who are traditionally women ...

15. How London's terror scare looks from Beirut

    course, in the "war on terror", where — if he really searched for real motives — my favourite ... of the Israeli version of the "war on terror" — a conflict to which Paul and the lads in ... happened to be on the bridge. In the real world, we call that a war crime. Indeed, it's a crime worthy ...

16. Howard's racist country: a better Australia is possible

    Canberra has used the post-9/11 "war on terror" as a pretext to paint Muslim Australians as ... Labor's uncritical support for the "war on terror" and its eagerness to adopt the language of ... people that the "war on terror" is a hoax being used by the Howard government as a pretext for ...

17. West manipulates refugees' plight to pressure Zaire rebels

    intended to apply maximum pressure on the ADFL to agree to share power with the remnants of the brutal ... On April 23, UN secretary general Kofi Annan urged all governments to use their diplomatic influence ... arrives. The western forces are conducting frequent training manoeuvres on the Zaire River to show they ...

18. Europe's refugee crisis: 'Legal pathways are the only alternative'

    Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos told a press conference on January 25. He was warning Europe that its ... On the ground, they worry more about the safety of refugees rather than security or the Schengen ... interview in December. Down on the beaches of Lesbos, refugees are more stoic: “No trouble with the police ...

19. ECUADOR: People power forces Oxy oil contract cancellation

    announced on May 15 that the contract for oil exploration and exploitation by US-owned Occidental Petroleum ... was being cancelled. The minister said the decision was based on legal transgressions by the company, ... accused of 42 legal violations, including environmental destruction and spying on protesters. Rodriguez ...

20. Tsunami victims abandoned by government

    From Nicaragua, STEPHEN MARKS reports on the aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the ... country's Pacific coast. El Transito was a small fishing village on the coast. We had recently been there ... for a Sunday afternoon swim; people fished in the surf, and small children played on the beach and in ...

21. Freeing Julian Assange — the last chapter

    unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention — an international tribunal that ... Extradition Warrant, itself now discredited by Parliament. The UN Working Group bases its judgments on the ... European Convention on Human Rights and three other treaties that are binding on all its signatories. Both ...

22. Time to unite for a strong Socialist Alliance

    BY RAUL BASSI I am thrilled about the level of discussion on left unity. I have never before seen ... politics and trade unionism. The best I can do is try to pass on some experiences learned in those years. ... capitalist system and the political institutions in absolute crisis, the left groups have focused on their ...

23. Protests reclaim King’s real legacy

    Francisco This year’s celebrations of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, a national holiday on ... birthday … was punctuated by protest,” New York Times said on January 19, “as a new generation of ... Vietnam War in the 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) was president — “Hey, Hey LBJ! How many kids did you ...

24. 'Syria's fate must not be decided by foreign powers or forces'

    Syrian government waged merciless war on its own people. Some of the revolutionaries argued that for ... repression it faced. However, the extreme violence and unspeakable cruelty, including the use of torture on ... other nonviolent mass actions. Once militarisation began, leadership came to depend on access to guns ...

25. Abbott's twisted job application

    women might make of his patronising sexism is an interesting question. Abbott supports a national ... conservative women politicians; it is just one of many examples of his insular point of view. Abbott brings new ... quagmire of war in Afghanistan — none of it looms large in the Abbott world view. This is the man who has ...

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