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1. 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 ...

2. Public Forum: A left perspective on the West’s defeat in Afghanistan

   attacks, even though the Afghan people were not responsible. After nearly 20 years of war, the deaths of ... disaster was allowed to go on for so long. Australian governments were willing participants. Now, the ... women – targets of the Taliban. Come along to this public forum hosted by 91������̳ and Socialist ...

3. Radicals remember the 1960s

   Books & music History Imperialism & war International solidarity Socialism Women Workers ... performing on the platform of the May 1970, 100,000-strong Vietnam War Moratorium march in Melbourne. In late ... 4 Climate) are speaking out on the climate crisis, just as the 1960s students did against the Vietnam War ...

4. Women take to the streets on Reclaim the Night

   action cheered the marchers on, and the night ended with a concert of women artists, at which messages of ... focused on the need for an active movement which does not tolerate abuses of women's rights. From ... abortion on demand; self-determination for indigenous women; reform of the legal system which currently ...

5. Kabul Diaries Part 14: ‘Our privacy is now subjected to Taliban vigilantes’

   Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East Women Yasmeen Afghan Taliban Kabul ... be. It’s usually a fun filled night for women.] "We agreed on the terms that it would be ... Afghan women in New York City on September 25. Read the full Kabul Diaries series Afghanistan: ...

6. Irish women on remand in Britain

   justice"- punishment before conviction. Martina Shanahan, for instance, spent 13 months on remand before she ... Risley prison on August 7, 1988: "I think any prisoner will tell you that the most traumatic time is ... Nobody told me I was going to be on my own all the time. "The first day I thought I was just on my ...

7. Afghan-Australians call for peace, asylum

   They chanted “End the proxy war”, “Stop killing children”, “Stop killing women”, “Don’t support ... Anti-racism Imperialism & war Anne McMenamin Afghan refugees Asylum seekers & refugees War ... on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide A passionate crowd of 1000 mostly Afghan-Australians ...

8. Two new publications on Cuba

   Books & music Imperialism & war International solidarity Latin America & the Caribbean ... Attack shows the absolutely malign pressure of the US on Cuba’s development. After the 1898 ... Spanish-American War, the US took over from Spain as Cuba’s imperial master. It totally dominated the island until ...

9. The new evidence on women's oppression

   The new evidence on women's oppression The dispossession of women — A Marxist examination of ... new evidence on the origins of women's oppression By Pat Bewer Resistance Books, 2000 44 pp., ... social roles are built on, but go beyond, the natural differences between men and women. Thus, gender ...

10. Women face worsening violence on Nauru

    biblical movies that we grew up on look tame,” Pamela Curr told a forum on women in Nauru in Sydney on ... in Iran; and state-sanctioned rape of Tamil women by the Sri Lankan army. When they embark on the ... women have survived horrific stories and made their way across the sea only to wind up on Nauru.” Thea, ...

11. Why the warmongers hate Assange

    Rapporteur on Torture War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) In a dramatic turn of events, the United States ... Special Rapporteur on Torture, revealed that while the two women at the centre of the story are real, ... Democracy Imperialism & war Sam Wainwright Wikileaks Our Common Cause United Nations Special ...

12. 10 new albums that oppose all forms of war

    music that related to it, which tackles the wars on workers, women and minorities worldwide. You can ... the worldwide war on women by linking rape to "vulgarity" and how women dress. A fortnight ... FAREWELL As the military waged war on Myanmar, US President Joe Biden announced American troops were ...

13. Afghanistan and the defeat of the US military

    Imperialism & war Rupen Savoulian War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Taliban Afghanistan has ... fundamentalist insurgency during the Cold War. Please do not deploy the cynical claim of defending “women ... ’s rights” to provide an ethical spin on this 20-year military occupation. There was no concern for women ...

14. Conference discusses poverty, violence inflicted on women

    BY LINDA KAUCHER SYDNEY — The World March of Women 2000 conference on September 2 brought together ... speakers on many factors contributing to women's poverty and many aspects of violence against women ... on these issues. Beginning the conference, Thea Ormerod, from Jubilee 2000, explained that women make ...

15. A woman's place is in the struggle: All out against war on March 8!

    shaping up to be the next globally coordinated actions against war on Iraq. The strike and IWD events are ... the Coalition government to spend the $116 billion earmarked for the Iraq war on maternity leave, ... about the “fat on the bones” of the federal budget that he says means we can “absorb” the cost of war on ...

16. Ukraine’s recovery must benefit the people. The West has other ideas

    discuss Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction. On the eve of the gathering, Ukrainian democratic socialist ... economic downturn, there’s another question that looms on the horizon: what will happen when the war ends? ... Economy Europe Imperialism & war Workers & unions Vitaliy Dudin Ukraine-Russia war ...

17. Has Germany’s global role shifted due to increased military spending?

    Europe Imperialism & war Sibylle Kaczorek military spending arms exports After World War II, ... the Warsaw Pact, when it was formed a few days later. Up until the end of the Cold War, the German ... towards participation in United Nations- and NATO-mandated missions. Legal disagreement on the question of ...

18. Jobs for women: Anatomy of a win

    immediately. Murphy and the three other women joined the thousands of local women on the “waiting list”. During ... Like women the world over, they were forced out of their jobs when men returned from World War II. Many ... a group of women on the special “women’s list” at AI&S, including Murphy and her comrades, was driven ...

19. Letters: refugee women on Manus speak out

    society. Letter 11 I am a 34 years old woman. From very early on in my life women had to always be isolated ... to put on. The sufferings of us women were not just limited to only a few things. The eyes of young ... detention Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru detention centres A group of women asylum seekers share ...

20. Five years since its liberation, more than a million people return to Raqqa

    dedicate this to all women’ Creating a desert and calling it peace: Turkey’s water war against Rojava World ... Democracy Economy Energy Healthcare Housing Imperialism & war Middle East Refugees & ... and execution sites. The city was liberated on October 20, 2017. The offensive on the city lasted 166 ...

21. Iran’s Komala: Guns and social democratic roses

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East National liberation Women Marcel ... Komala for women in Rojhelat — both at that time and now — has been the party’s emphasis on gender ... there to pick you up at 16:33.” To say this was precise would be a bit on an understatement, but it was ...

22. Australia must support Afghanistan now, protesters say

    Anti-racism Imperialism & war Susan Austin War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) Asylum seekers & ... refugees Hazara minority nipaluna/Hobart At least 1000 people joined a protest on Parliament House lawns on ... August 21 calling for freedom for Afghanistan, women’s rights, refugee rights and much more support the ...

23. Kabul Diaries Part 6: One week of Taliban occupation

    Imperialism & war International solidarity Middle East Yasmeen Afghan food insecurity Taliban ... Women's rights media freedom Kabul Diaries Kabul The daily Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing online ... trying to impose the narrative of “reformed or good Taliban”, the Afghans on the other hand are losing on ...

24. Kabul Diaries Part 5: Before the Taliban Occupation — Anecdotes from Kabul University

    Education Imperialism & war Middle East Yasmeen Afghan Taliban Women's rights media ... picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media. * * * Posted on August ... had girls, boys, men, and women from different organisations. I joined the law faculty, our class had ...

25. United States: Trump declares war on birth control

    on a strongly anti-choice platform. Unlike Trump, who has gone back and forth on a women’s right to ... a chance during his presidential campaign to rail against reproductive freedom, including women’s rights to ... abortion and birth control. He is now doing his best to make good on these promises. In the process, he is ...

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