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ACEH: Independence sentiment a result of Suharto legacy
a referendum on independence. Prior to 1998 anti-government sentiment in Aceh generally shared a similar ... new political and NGO organisations developed. These included student, human rights, women ... response, as in all guerrilla war situations, was to attempt to forcibly separate the guerrilla fighters ...
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Mardi Gras: from politics to business
activists: women and men from the radical Sydney University group, Active Defence of Homosexuals on Campus, ... anti-Vietnam War, the women's and black rights movements. While not homogeneous, the gay and lesbian ... a public forum, it later decided on a Saturday morning march as well to encourage more people to attend. In ...
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Are Australians moving rightwards?
spending more on social services as against tax cuts. 42% more people thought women should be able to ... the states. A Newspoll in WA found that if an election had been held on December 11 or 12, the ... quarter alone the mining industry made pre-tax profits of $4.7 billion, a 123% increase on the previous ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Expect more global apartheid in 2006
"comfort women" victims of Japan's World War II torture and rape, in part by citing Maduna's ... When addressing fellow heads of state at the United Nations on September 15, he let loose his ... offers tiny concessions from the European Union on explicit export subsidies (amounting to less than US$4 ...
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The challenges facing the Socialist Alliance
contribution to the anti-war and refugee rights movements and in building solidarity with militant, democratic ... alliance on the basis of these gains. 2. Is convinced that the Socialist Alliance has the potential to ... develop much greater influence in the unions, the movements and in electoral politics on the basis of ...
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CHINA: Oppression fuels independence aspirations
destination. This hasn't stopped Beijing from seizing on US "war on terrorism" and turning it ... took power in 1949, has carried on with its predecessors' methods. This has led to periodic ... campaign. Then, on November 12, Chinese foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan claimed at a UN conference that there ...
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Tandem Thrust: why it should be stopped
Beach. This pincer movement traps the "enemy" in the middle. In addition to covering the war ... displayed photos of US marines everyday. On the day a woman was reported to have been gang-raped, there was ... schools, apologising to young kids for "accidentally" killing an emu and giving talks on ...
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Palestine: Fatah meets amid infighting, accusations
including women and children, waving white flags during its December-January war on Gaza. More than 1300 ... These agreements involved Fatah dropping its historic demand for a democratic, secular state based on ... independent Palestinian state based on the West Bank and Gaza, which have been occupied by Israel since 1967. ...
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Bolivia: Conflict deepens over disputed highway
rubber bullets sent indigenous marchers, including pregnant women and children, fleeing for safety. ... presented a list including 15 further demands on the government. The issues ranged from improving indigenous ... on the CIDOB website on September 19, was implementing 鈥渢he process of consultation with the ...
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Consumers not to blame for sweatshop wages
Britain proposed raising money for the victims by having consumers pay a voluntary 鈥淭-shirt tax鈥 on ... cost on to us. The assumption might have been valid in the time of Adam Smith. In the 18th century, ... giant corporations to engage in protracted price wars among themselves. Instead, they started holding ...
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Why did the refugees stop coming?
flow of asylum seekers. In an interview on Nine's Sunday program on August 15 last year, Howard ... declared: "I took a strong position on border protection. And I make no apology for that. But the proof ... Liberal backbenchers Petro Georgiou and Judi Moylan. Interviewed on the ABC's 7.30 Report on June 20, ...
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Fantasy reloaded: take a dose of reality
images and concepts from The Matrix to further our campaigns. The US anti-war leaflet calling on people ... but it is a contrived reading 鈥 based more on wishful thinking than analysis. Such a reading does not ... relatively significant roles for African Americans and women, well above Hollywood's usual (very low) ...
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ANC meets in National Conference
Congress was founded here. From December 17 to 21, 3000 delegates from all over South Africa converged on ... international community for their magnificent role. The ANC should always extend its hand to them, on the basis ... which we consider an act of war". The ANC reaffirmed its character as a liberation movement ...
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The '60s that began in Mosman
War, racism, poverty and other staple issues of the established left vied with hippie extravaganzas on ... move on women's liberation. One critic accused Oz of "drowning in its own sperm", whilst ... Society Blows Another Mind". Oz went on its merry, irreverent way, though frequently raided by the ...
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Cuba's revolution continues
Duroyan Fertl 742 Cuba February 29, 2008 Following the announcement by Fidel Castro on February 19 ... "bringing democracy", via a series of "reforms". On February 24, the newly elected 614-member ... in Cuba, and is a continuation of the propaganda war by the US and corporate interests against the ...
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Towards a history of the CPA
it was the dominant party on the left in Australia and an important force in the workers movement. ... unemployed, women, Aborigines, young people; important civil liberties fights; and solidarity with ... women, and organised the most militant, idealistic, self-sacrificing section of the Australian working ...
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Spanish right moves to exploit end of ETA ceasefire
Victor Cremer 710 Spain May 17, 2007 On March 22, 2006, the Basque organisation ETA (Euskadi Ta ... successor, Borbon King Juan Carlos. ETA instead called on Basque society to find its way to ... 2004, the pro-war, neoliberal, neo-Francoist Popular Party (PP) government of Jose Maria Aznar had been ...
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Revolution and counter-revolution in Afghanistan
factors led the PDPA government to rely on implementing the revolution's measures in an ... minister. On September 14, 1979, Taraki attempted to violently put an end to what he believed was ... figures in the PDPA leadership were expelled. The Amin regime relied more and more on naked force to ...
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Argentina: Silence still shrouds history of cross-sword-money allegiance
Democracy Latin America & the Caribbean Manuel Rodriguez 925 Argentina June 2, 2012 On March ... murdered by their captors. Victims included pregnant women killed after they gave birth. Their babies were ... They avoided criticism of the junta's so-called dirty war, even though they were aware union ...
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Watching the media at the Paralympics
were at every newsstand. Ian Thorpe was "liquid gold". The Australian women's hockey ... much grassroots work was conducted, focusing on young people. Students became pen pals of athletes, ... a result of war and conflict. ...