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Stop supporting dictator Suharto!
in East Timor, killed either by Suharto's military or by 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, ... Solidarity Women's Network, Democratic Socialist Party), Ray Richmond (Wayside Chapel, Sydney), David ...
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Travels in East Timor
Dili on a domestic flight from Bali, I am called aside to go through 聯immigration聰. This does little to ... weeks of continual questioning by the 聯authorities聰 芒聙聰 often I was not sure which authority 芒聙聰 on my ... report to the police upon arrival in every town you visit. On one occasion I am asked by someone what ...
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Racism the issue, not youth
police officers risked the lives of hundreds in Kings Cross by opening fire on the unarmed occupants of ... smashed the passenger's head on the road and body-slammed him on the curb, which left him in a coma. ... enslavement of Aboriginal people. Brisbane鈥檚 Aboriginal community held a rally on April 24 outside Queensland ...
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Water and the thirst for profit
Sue Reilly 780 January 24, 2009 Wars are fought over access to scarce resources. The 20th century ... was dominated by wars over colonial possessions and energy resources. According to Maude Barlow in her ... century water is increasingly likely to be a source of conflict. Her prediction is based on big business ...
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An answer to the jobs-environment conflict?
Our first concern is to protect the jobs, incomes and working conditions of our members. On the other ... service jobs or subsistence level unemployment income. The GI Bill after World War II, an innovative and ... than 13 million ex-servicemen and women between 1945 and 1972 make the transition from military service ...
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Stieg Larsson remembered
train women soldiers in handling mortars, a skill he learned in the army. Back in Sweden, he and his ... extremism and fascism. He also contributed with articles on cultural and scientific matters 鈥 his first ... decisions. For Stieg, who since moving to Stockholm had concentrated on fighting right-wing extremism and ...
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Venezuelan workers speak about reclaiming the streets
a revolutionary sing-along soundtrack: at first glance this year鈥檚 march for the International Workers Day on May ... announcement by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on April 30 of a 30% rise in the national minimum wage. ... Rumours spread of a second phase of anti-government violence based on targeted hit-and-run attacks on ...
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Jewish writer's answer to Israel's question
Loewenstein particularly focuses on the shock troops at the forefront of the public relations war waged in ... why lobby groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC) have a strong influence on ... progressive movements to challenge US policy on Israel successfully". While these factors no doubt have ...
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IRAQ: Getting the purple finger
Trojan horse in the UIA. (You didn't think it was going to put all its money on Allawi, did you?) In ... Monetary Fund. On troop withdrawal, al Mahdi sounds nothing like his party's platform and instead ... appears to be channelling Vice-President Dick Cheney on Fox News: "When the Americans go will depend ...
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Le Carre comes in from the cold
with spy vs spymaster than spy vs spy. With the end of the Cold War, Le Carre's books have become ... offering he takes on "unbridled capitalism". The theme of Constant Gardener is a familiar one for ... being distributed to Kenyan women, Dypraxa, which she suspected had not completed a clinical trial ...
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The truth about Cuba
by US radio stations calling on Cubans to boycott the election. Unlike in the US or Australia, ... on production plans according to what they believe is achievable. Unlike in the former Stalinist ... inefficiency, and the stifling effect it had on Cuba's economic and social life. The revolutionary ...
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Yeltsin abolishes military call-up 鈥 or does he?
Even if draftees are not sent off to a shooting war, they are traditionally subjected to beating and ... significant political risks. It would be foolish not to consider the impact on the officer corps. Press ... 鈥 including about 100,000 women. The cost of maintaining a kontraktnik comes to about five times the cost of ...
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Chavez's internationalism changed the world
world's centre of gravity and the ultimate arbiter of the key issues of the economy, politics and war ... these changes, but will go on to transcend them. No one foresaw as Chavez did the dynamics breaking ... is why Venezuela is now in the centre of the world stage. This mantle now falls on the government ...
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Honduras: Corporate plunder and US-backed coups
to events around the coup on June 28 with scrappy bits and pieces of context. Adequate context and ... significant advances in social legislation, especially labour legislation. Women got the right to vote in ... Johnson. From that coup through the 1960s and '70s, Honduras took its lead on every important regional ...
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Cardinal: 'We need more socialists in the union movement'
education to put towards the war on Iraq, for example." Cardinal says that "some left-wing unions ... have good policies on social issues like refugees, and Aboriginal rights and equal rights for women ... Cardinal is an active member of the Socialist Alliance. He is the Queensland representative on the ...
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Obama's historic victory: people want change!
to the Iraq war was also a factor. Eight years of failed Republican economic and foreign policy led ... tricks until the end. Obama received nearly 100% of the Black vote, a large majority of Latino and women ... a civil war in the 1860s to end slavery. It took another 100 years to legally end segregation and gain the ...
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Behind the victory against prison torture in Turkey
a proud history of fighting colonisation." After World War I, Turkey was invaded by France and ... aftermath of World War II. "Turkey was an important geo-political region for USA, sitting amidst the ... people marched in Istanbul on May Day in 1978. "The civil fascist movement was led by the ...
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Behind the victory against prison torture in Turkey
a proud history of fighting colonisation." After World War I, Turkey was invaded by France and ... aftermath of World War II. "Turkey was an important geo-political region for USA, sitting amidst the ... people marched in Istanbul on May Day in 1978. "The civil fascist movement was led by the ...
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Foundation stories
founding of the Swan River Colony on June 5. They have learned the story of the "settlement" of ... attack" on a group of the original owners of the land 鈥 people who were shot at on sight. It was ... execution, as an act of war, betrayed something of the reality of the situation. Later another of the ...
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Socialist Alliance prepares for new challenges
anti-war movement (with an immediate focus on next year's anniversary of Iraq invasion protests and ... conference held at Geelong Trades Hall on October 29. Fifty five delegates from across Australia met in ... Reflecting on the current push to join or back the ALP as the only way to defeat Howard, Cain said he'd ...