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1. Life of Riley: Dem damn Dems!

   with a bang up shootin' war courtesy of Bill Clinton and NATO, 50 Aussie wallopers soon set to ... about it! I'm lucky to know which shoe goes on which foot. What we really need is our own adviser ... Despoja and ethics? You want those things? You want liberated women — sisters doing it for all of us ...

2. Life of Riley: Me Darcy, you Jane

   for the Napoleonic Wars. Britain was keen to rid Europe of the French disease because its infection ... was spreading even to its own womenfolk. If all men could think they had rights — maybe (their) women ... contemporary mores, but of reality. You could be as rad-fem as you like back in them days — but without jobs on ...

3. Writing white history

   working-class British women in Sydney? Which of the nation's black sons were dying in custody on Australian ... soil during the period of the Vietnam War? Alongside white euphoria and white tragedy there is also ...

4. Media debate conscription

   a massive 146%. To a large extent this is due to anti-militarist sentiment in the wake of the Gulf War ... for all men — a scarce improvement for those who would prefer to get on with their lives in ... compulsory service? One solution would be to extend compulsory service to women (and that spectre is already ...

5. 'Be realistic, do the impossible'

   war, he went on to offer a few reforms to turn back the revolutionary tide. A huge demonstration ... a popular revolt in Czechoslovakia; police and/or the National Guard were deployed on many US campuses; in ... Britain 5000 students fought police outside the US embassy and there was daily strife on campuses. From ...

6. Afghanistan: Malalai Joya vs Washington's warlords

   nor the US occupation of her country ("the 'war on terror' is a mockery"). ... today is producing 90% of the world's opium. This is taking its toll on women. Now we hear about ... unarmed women in her late twenties: Malalai Joya. To silence Joya's defiant voice, the warlords who ...

7. End ties with the Indonesian dictatorship!

   either killed by Suharto's military or from starvation, the result of the war of occupation. All the ... world knows that more than 200 people were killed at the Dili massacre on November 12, 1991. All the ... Association); Zohl de Ishtar (Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific); All Burma Students Democratic ...

8. New book details key congress of revolutionary international

   gatherings seems to drag on interminably. Refreshingly, for a variety of reasons, this 1200-page compendium ... days, was a passive tool in Moscow’s hands is dispelled in these pages. Important issues were on the ... including the dispute over World War I (that split the socialist movement into opportunist forces that ...

9. Regional left groups: 'Support Tamil refugees'

   The article below is slightly abridged from a joint statement released on November 5 by the ... fleeing war and oppression in Sri Lanka. Instead, they treat them like criminals. The Australian ... convention. For weeks, more than 250 Tamil-speaking people, including children, remain in dire conditions on ...

10. Regional left groups: 'Support Tamil refugees'

    The article below is slightly abridged from a joint statement released on November 5 by the ... Malaysia refuse to accept the latest wave of Tamil asylum seekers fleeing war and oppression in Sri Lanka. ... Tamil-speaking people, including children, remain in dire conditions on a boat in Merak, Indonesia. Another 78 ...

11. PALESTINE: Rafah tonight and the morality of the Israeli Army

    hospital's gate. Tens of families in the village were forced to leave their homes; children, women and men ... and its charters regarding civilians and the safety of health teams working during war times? This ... don't have electricity, we don't have clean water. The war boats patrol the sea and the helicopters ...

12. Solidarity can stop Howard's union busting

    education and transport off-limits to industrial action. These things are a serious attack on the rights and ... Howard gang has cooked up. In the post-war period before the election of the Gough Whitlam Labor ... bosses, all worked up in a lather, aren't afraid of talking class war. Some don't even want to ...

13. 'we all need to work together for a better place'

    slaughtering our young men and women in wars. "Social Disease" is about how I view the system at the ... forests, in Aboriginal rights — after all, just recently there has been a death in custody on Palm Island, ... being suicidal. "Civil Rights" is about trying to resolve things without wars, without ...

14. An open letter to Jose Ramos Horta

    pressures on Indonesia and assistance to the most authoritarian layers of the Indonesian military; US and ... support for East Timor's oppressors. In England in the 1990s, four women who destroyed a jet bomber ... continuous reporting on East Timor with your column in 1991. Your two false statements regarding the West and ...

15. Range of quality films for Mardi Gras

    night-time parade and party, is now a well-known event on the alternative calendar. Its arts program is ... and lesbians in the US military during World War II. It's an interesting film, and the material ... "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Despite an election promise to lift the ban on lesbians and ...

16. Hanson, the left and the ex-left

    misrepresent the positions of much of the socialist left, rewrite the history of the anti-Vietnam War movement ... meeting in Dandenong on July 7 were "no doubt... among the adherents of Resistance, Militant, the ... been consciously used to de-politicise anti-Hanson sentiment and keep the lid on the huge potential for ...

17. Syria, Yemen uprisings yield different Western responses

    while people are being murdered ― women, children, brave young men ― houses are being destroyed. It is ... just despicable and I ask whose side are they on? They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian ... has cost thousands of lives. On February 21, when Yemen held presidential elections, Clinton released ...

18. Gains in global marriage equality campaigns

    since the time of the women’s suffrage movement and the Vietnam anti-war movement. We have won these ... oppressive and proscriptive gender roles. It may be one that creates a world where women can dream of more ... its complexities, but the news for gay men and all women is better than it could have been. Obama will ...

19. Workers to bear budget pain

    billion on war, the largest single expenditure item. It's rumoured the government will wind back some ... radio's AM on May 7 "of women who see specialist obstetricians — about 80% will be worse off". ... Graham Matthews The federal budget will be presented to parliament by Treasurer Wayne Swan on May ...

20. Turkey: After failed coup, Erdoğan cracks down

    the Syrian Civil War. The theory has been fuelled by incongruities in the events on the night of the ... a group of military officers calling themselves the “Peace in the Country Council” on July 15, who ... launch one of his own was borne out by scenes on July 16 and following days. Mobs of Erdoğan's ...

21. NSSP campaigns for peace in Sri Lanka

    NSSP campaigns for peace in Sri Lanka By Sujatha Fernandes On October 17, after peace talks had ... people from the LTTE — is run. For the last five years the government has imposed an economic blockade on ... dying of starvation on the streets, and the lack of hospital care and medicines has enabled disease to ...

22. 'Our dream is live as human beings'

    government that took power in a military coup on June 30, 1989. Last year, Yousif fled to Australia as ... subsistence level only and most people have to work two jobs to survive. The war in Sudan's south impacts ... on all Sudanese, but especially young people. Conscription has been introduced and all students are ...

23. Sport undermined by neoliberalism

    means inherent in sport, which is not about “the law of the jungle” or a “war of all against all”. On ... industry, legal and illegal. Betting on sports is estimated to be worth between $700 billion and $1 trillion ... the contrary, it's a competitive activity built on a cooperative basis, requiring mutual ...

24. PALESTINE: World's longest running injustice

    place since the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war represents a slow death for the Palestinian people. I've ... acts with impunity — killing or arresting people or stealing more land, on a daily basis. We saw ... your pass. On May 28, Israeli soldiers opened fire on those waiting at the Qalandia checkpoint, ...

25. Immigration: for an open-door policy

    By Iggy Kim Since prehistoric times, humanity has been on the move. Driven by material compulsion, ... way. With the rise of class society, migration took on an added dimension, as labouring classes were ... churned up in a new and contradictory phenomenon: on the one hand, new super-groupings of populations ...

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