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  1. Hunger strikers protest war in Kurdistan

    Hunger strikers protest war in Kurdistan By Kerryn Williams and Arty Titiz MELBOURNE — On November ... 9, Kurdish women here began a hunger strike on the steps of Parliament House to protest against the ... war on the Kurdish people by the Turkish military. The action follows hunger strikes initiated by the ...

  2. Rebecca West: From socialist suffragist to Cold War conservative

    view that the women campaigning for the vote in 1906 were "unsympathetic and repellent", ... and selling their newspaper on the streets of London. So says Victoria Glendinning in her biography of ... politicians and police, especially the barbaric force-feeding of suffragist prisoners on hunger strike. West ...

  3. Write on: letters to the editor

    Ryan Newtown NSW An attack on all women I was extremely concerned to read of the decision by the ... a capitalist leader (and a good friend of the CIA and Henry Kissinger); it looks as if he will get off on ... this forest decision and that resource security for an unsustainable industry is just not on. Steve ...