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  1. Resistance plans fight against Howard

    Resistance plans fight against Howard By Marina Cameron "The capitalist system, based on ... a generation of young people whose living conditions and future are on the rocks." Lively discussions were ... political analysis of international and Australian politics, and set down some clear decisions on ...

  2. Beyond 'business-as-usual' unionism

    and glamour on TV: this is the real United States. One of the Motor City's main thoroughfares, ... "nude". The few people on the streets are overwhelmingly black and latino, and universally poor. Detroit ... sense that they part of a movement." Labor Notes has published a range of invaluable books on ...

  3. The anatomy of PC

    The anatomy of PC The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education ... campaigns in the United States to produce a fascinating and devastating expos茅. Drawing on his own ... invented anecdotes, became the mechanism by which conservatives continued their attack on the Left." ...

  4. BOLIVIA: From neoliberalism to a homeland for all

    On January 22, Evo Morales 鈥 former trumpeter, llama herder and coca-grower union leader 鈥 became ... mandate of December 18, 2005, when Bolivians from the countryside and cities decided to turn the page on ... movements, business owners, the middle classes, indigenous peoples, intellectuals and women. We are dealing ...

  5. AFGHANISTAN: US occupiers face sea of hostility

    much and every bit as difficult as those that go on in Iraq". Clashes between US-led forces and ... soldier was killed and another injured on November 14 when their vehicle was hit by explosives in ... Afghanistan, Colonel Rodney Davis, said that on November 14 alone two US military bases were under siege more ...

  6. Venezuela: 'Colectivos' scare campaign demonises the poor

    education collectives, cultural groups, mural painters and so on. With the government of Hugo Chavez and now ... Spanish language media, and on social networks: Medium: 鈥淧ro-government motorcycle militias terrorize ... Al Dia: 鈥淐ollectives in Palaima use women as shields in order to escape鈥 La Verdad: 鈥淐ollectives beat ...

  7. Castro condemns US for Elian tragedy

    about the death of men, women and children. Our country places no limits on families who want to ... were women and children on board. In the end, if our coast guards fail to persuade people to turn back, ... Castro condemns US for Elian tragedy On December 23, Cuban president Fidel Castro gave a speech to ...

  8. Palestine's struggle for human rights

    refugees", Dr Ilham Abu Ghazaleh recalls. "Life was extremely difficult. We lived on the bare minimum. ... clothes." Dr Abu Ghazaleh, a linguistics professor and a leading academic on gender issues in the Middle ... declared the state of Israel. The 1948 war and the terror pursued by the newly formed Israeli army resulted ...

  9. Why Africa starves

    western governments as the result of sudden "disasters" 鈥 a drought, a war. Yet Africa lives ... at birth was 49 years for men and 53 years for women. Only 32% of Africans can read and write, and ... among women the figure is less than 10%. Wealth drains from the poorest parts of the world to the ...

  10. Letter from the US: NSA spying provokes protests 鈥 at home and abroad

    capital on October 26 in protest against the mass surveillance of almost all Americans and hundreds of ... activist women鈥檚 group Code Pink wore an Obama mask, and carried a large cardboard camera. Organisers ... fundamental and inalienable right to individual sovereignty in the face of a government bent on destroying ...

  11. IRAQ: Human rights vanishing

    appears to be a secret war being waged by death-squad militias aligned to the US. In January, US magazine ... Newsweek published an article on its website that revealed that figures in the Pentagon were ... The "Salvador option" refers to the undeclared, secret war waged by the Ronald Reagan ...

  12. Could the anti-WTO protests been bigger?

    march聰 should focus on opposition to both the WTO and the pending war on Iraq. As the weeks wore on, the ... and 聯society's dregs聰 were intent on 聯arson聰 and 聯trying to provoke the police聰, would have kept ... on the third. NSW ALP police minister Michael Costa's attempts to close down web sites ...

  13. Kabila's unsavoury new allies

    south-west regions, Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia have decided not to escalate the war by attacking the ... denies refuge to terrorist bandits operating from DRC territory. Unable to rely on Angola, Zimbabwe and ... late July, when Kabila turned on his Banyarwanda and Banyamulenge allies, launched a racist ...

  14. ISRAEL: A terrorist success story

    disruption and fear brought to peoples' daily lives? Israel scores very highly on both these counts. ... off bombs in markets and attacking buses. In one attack on the Haifa fruit market 74 Arabs were killed ... observer in September 1948. As central leaders of these groups Begin and Shamir both went on to play ...

  15. Canada: NDP gains widen space for social struggle

    leadership role in the anti-war movement. It has been silent on Canada鈥檚 shared culpability in the ... Party sailed to victory in Canada鈥檚 federal election on May 2 with the first majority government in the ... sums the party spent on its campaign and the support it received from nearly every daily newspaper in ...

  16. Arab-Jewish solidarity for Palestinian rights

    Middle East Vivienne Porzsolt Jerusalem On July 15, former NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale and I used ... Melbourne, and Annie Pfingst, formerly of Women in Black and Jews against the Occupation Sydney. The rally ... demands of the Israeli settlers on the grounds that they had ownership papers from pre-1948. During the ...

  17. Germany: Left makes big gains in poll

    SPD's worst result since World War II. An SPD leader said on election night: "We have been bombed ... whom are women. In state elections held on the same day as the federal poll, Die Linke won 27.2% of the ... Die Linke was 11.9% 鈥 a 3.2% increase on the 2005 result by the joint electoral ticket of two ...

  18. Morocco committing 'all kinds of atrocities' in Western Sahara

    worse, not only for the Saharawi but also for the Moroccans. We think that this 'war on terror' ... (UPES) Malainin Lakhal, currently on a speaking tour of Australia, spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly 's ... violations are mainly women and young people", he said. He referred to the recent case of student ...

  19. Rolling over the membership

    turning up to vote at party and preselection ballots, and to doing their stuff on polling day. During the ... policies adopted by ALP units, battling their way from the branches through the electoral councils, on to ... the reductions in income inequality that had taken place since World War II were wiped out. And in the ...

  20. Guatemala: Massacre investigation breathrough

    light on the extent of US complicity in Guatemalan human rights crimes, one of Latin America鈥檚 most ... killing machine had already condemned them to death on the grounds that they were the soil in which the ... seed of resistance grows. Acting on orders issued by the US-backed regional command, a death squad of ...

  21. Songs in the year 1968

    sexist lyrics back on him but outshone his performance, demonstrating that women were to be reckoned with ... Barry Healy On March 17, 1968 British actor Vanessa Redgrave, having addressed a huge anti-Vietnam ... War protest in London's Trafalgar Square, visited the US embassy in Grosvenor Square to deliver ...

  22. John Pilger: Britain and the cause of fear and ignorance

    on the door, and women who now never go out. In effect, control orders have been served on thousands ... of the conflict, every lawless action on the part of the British state provoked a similar reaction: ... war is well under way. As Peirce points out, "internment, discredited and abandoned in Northern ...

  23. What does Obama have to fear?

    in a newsagent, who picked up a newspaper with a photo of Barack Obama on it, and thrust it under my ... down, it happens from the bottom up. Dr. King understood that. It was those women who were willing to ... walk instead of ride the bus, union workers willing to take on violence and intimidation to get the ...

  24. The blackfellas Eureka

    held, beginning on May 1 after the second world war had ended. This would coincide with both the ... on May 1, 1946, and initially involved 600 Aboriginal workers. It had an immediate effect with some ... Aboriginal workers along with well-researched articles on the background to the strike. Union support for the ...

  25. VENEZUELA: Australian brigade to see revolution in action

    Festival of Youth and Students, which will be held in Caracas on August 8-15. The festival is being ... organised under the slogan "For Peace and Solidarity, We Struggle Against Imperialism and War". It ... the Women's Bank and the Alcasa aluminum processing plant in Puerto Ordaz, now under ...

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