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1. The women of Kurdistan stand in solidarity with the women of Ireland – and call for a Yes vote to Repeal the 8th

   Qatar in its restrictions on women’s rights to basic reproductive health. Since Syria has similar ... reflected more broadly on how limits to women’s bodily autonomy relate to the imposition of capitalism and ... to focus on the trauma of ISIS sexual violence, reinforcing a narrative of women as “weak victims”, ...

2. Far-right censure motion: Theatre of the grotesque staged in Spanish Congress

   development; women are not having enough children; housing is impossibly expensive; crime is on the increase, ... On that day Vox, the ultra-right party directly descended from the 1939‒75 dictatorship of Francisco ... also an opportunity for the economics professor to hold a master class before a very large public on ...

3. How can we help the Iranian revolution from Australia?

   Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war International solidarity Jacob Andrewartha 2022 ... inspiring uprising across Iran, led by young women. The movement is an attempt by Iranians to reclaim their ... Debated by the Iranian community organising the protests right now is the role of sanctions on the regime, ...

4. Bloody Sunday 50 years on — a symbol of ongoing injustice

   Europe History Imperialism & war National liberation Stuart Munckton Bloody Sunday Brexit ... Grimaldi on the streets of Derry in British-occupied Northern Ireland on January 30, 1972. That day, ... British soldiers opened fire on an unarmed civil rights protest of at least 15,000 people, leaving 13 ...

5. Globalisation's impact on women

   BY JULIA HALDANE BRISBANE — Women are the invisible victims of wars over diminishing resources, ... 50 people at a post-International Women's Day forum on "Women and Globalisation" held ... Susan Price, women's liberation coordinator for the Democratic Socialist Party, told an audience of ...

6. Erdoğan and NATO continue Saddam’s Kurdish genocide

   Turkey's war on Kurdistan Halabja Thirty-three years ago, Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party forces deployed ... Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East National liberation Marcel Cartier ... in the final days of the Iran-Iraq War. The roughly 5000 people who perished, as a result of this ...

7. Kabul Diaries Part 17: In this dead end!

   further restrictions on women and banned music. Most barbaric, however, was the practice of public ... these rights to Afghan women on a plate. Afghan women fought against all odds to achieve their rights. ... Education Feminism International solidarity Middle East Women Yasmeen Afghan Kabul Diaries ...

8. Bangladesh: The struggle for liberation after colonial rule

   war on December 3, 1971, after Pakistan launched pre-emptive airstrikes on North India. Facing a war ... the country, which now seems poised on the edge of a civil war between two concepts. One concept ... & war National liberation Sabrina Syed Bangladesh Liberation War Islamic fundamentalism Colonisation ...

9. Lessons from the siege of Kobane

   Democracy Imperialism & war International solidarity John Tully Kobane Democratic Kurdish ... Parliament on November 8. The event was organised by the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre (NSW) and Rojava ... translate that from the Kurdish it means “Women, Life and Freedom”. It’s a remarkably simple sounding ...

10. Australia talks but who's listening?

    Anti-racism Climate crisis Democracy Economy Environment Far right Healthcare Housing Women Isaac ... National Survey was released on June 21 with a special TV event hosted by journalist Annabel Crabb and ... survey results are interesting in so far as they provide a snapshot of opinion on some important (and ...

11. West Papua activists call on Australia to stop joint exercises with the Indonesian military

    Papua's fate hangs on every word Jakarta is turning West Papuans into ‘terrorists’ to justify waging a war ... Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war Indigenous International solidarity Refugees & ... women, 338 minors and 17 infants among IDPs originating from the Aifat Selatan District alone. As at ...

12. Video: The Pakistani state and the return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

    Peter Boyle Farooq Tariq Imperialism & war War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Afghanistan Pakistan ... interview was conducted on September 4. Afghanistan: Women walk for democracy against fascist Taliban Video: ... A left perspective on the West’s defeat in Afghanistan ...

13. Peace conference to launch inquiry into Australia’s growing militarism

    Canberra-based choir, A Chorus of Women, will perform during a twilight lantern parade on November 23. The events ... Climate crisis Democracy Imperialism & war Bevan Ramsden Independent and Peaceful Australia ... Australian militarism on First Nations peoples and broader society. IPAN comprises community groups, trade ...

14. Never forget: SIEV-X memorial unveiled

    Anti-racism Imperialism & war Refugees & migrants Niko Leka SIEV-X Tampa NSW councils and ... 21 years ago. Hunter Asylum Seeker Advocacy organised a ceremony on October 22. In that disaster 146 ... children, 142 women and 65 men drowned. About a dozen survivors made it to Australia, and about 30 were ...

15. International Women's Strike on March 8 marks 'start of a new international feminist movement’

    abridged from International Women Strike USA. *** The International Women’s Strike on March 8 is an ... International Women's Strike Below is the platform of the International Women’s Strike US. It is slightly ... international day of action, planned and organised by women in more than 30 different countries.   In the spirit ...

16. 10 new albums that aim to change the world in 2023

    continued to wage war on Ukraine. On it, they sing: “Bombs are falling again, can you understand? It's ... borders and wars. On the opening track, "Sold Everything", they holler: "Well, they sold ... world.” LISTEN>>> margo_price_-_strays.jpg 5. MARGO PRICE- STRAYS  On January 23, women marched ...

17. Three budget cuts we should support

    Climate crisis Economy Energy Imperialism & war Peter Boyle Stage 3 tax cuts budget AUKUS ... time. But on the eve of the first budget to be delivered by the Anthony Albanese Labor government, there ... are three cuts we should support. 1. $11.6 billion a year (and rising) wasted on fossil fuel subsidies ...

18. Turkish invasion threatens iconic women's village in Rojava

    (AANES) The women’s cooperative village of Jinwar was opened on November 25, 2017, the International Day ... organisation, now known as Kongreya Star, as a refuge for women fleeing war and patriarchy. Jinwar was built by ... women on ecologically sustainable principles and has been such a success, that the international ...

19. Vale Juan Jose (John) Garcia, 1940–2023

    the heady days of the late 1970s that followed massive anti-war protests, the new Gough Whitlam ... Queensland Institute of Technology. Members of Aboriginal Housing wanted an Aboriginal community school on ... days later he was arrested by the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government on trumped up charges of “conspiring ...

20. Don’t mourn militarist Shinzo Abe

    Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war Middle East Rupen Savoulian militarisation Japanese ... war crimes Israeli war crimes ultranationalism No doubt the news about the assassination of former ... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 sent shockwaves throughout the world. The longest-serving ...

21. Rojava Revolution- seven years on

    Middle East Dave Holmes Turkey's war on Afrin Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Syrian ... women are empowered to enjoy their full human rights and which is based on grassroots democracy and ... Democratic Forces (SDF) July 19 marked the seventh anniversary of northern Syria’s Rojava Revolution. On that ...

22. Global movement to #StopHazaraGenocide erupts

    protest in Sydney. Photo: Peter Boyle Afghanistan: Hazara women protest attacks on students in Kabul Three ... Anti-racism Imperialism & war International solidarity Refugees & migrants Amir Haidari ... Hazara people in Afghanistan on October 8. This wave of the movement developed in response to an attack ...

23. Fighting for women's liberation in Trump's America-- interview with International Women's Strike USA organiser

    garment workers. In 1917, demonstrations by women workers on IWD in Russia sparked the revolution that ... depoliticised. However, this year a range of attacks on women around the world has led to the call for ... administration’s attacks on women’s rights was met on January 21 with huge Women’s Marches across the US — the ...

24. Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant workers issue urgent plea for support

    psychological pressure exerted on ZNPP staff, especially women. The union has received support from the European ... facilities targeted in Russia's war on Ukraine Ukraine nuclear fears partly fuelled by Australian ... Energy Europe Imperialism & war Workers & unions Federico Fuentes Ukraine-Russia war ...

25. The radical achievements of the New Theatre

    Lisa Milner Interventions, 2022, 632 pp., $40 Where in the history of Australian theatre have women ... inception. As Lisa Milner and Cathy Brigden mention in their chapter, the role of women is absent from the ... theatre chapter in The Encyclopaedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia. This will ...

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