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  1. Leader of the way into the wasteland

    self-proclaimed role as the non-revolutionary and moderate protector of the working class. Taft was on the most ... Ansett at Essendon aerodrome during the war, before working full time for the party from 1944. From this ... point on, Taft began to consider the need to de-Stalinise the ideology (uncritical support of Soviet ...

  2. How Cambodian 'news' is created

    chose to stay and married local women, and who have been serving in village militias. While it takes ... with US MIAs in Vietnam 鈥 the misplaced view that wars are and should be "clean" and the ... and a number of stringers, usually writing for commission only or on very modest stipends. As well, ...

  3. Jim Percy, 1948-1992

    cancer, at his home in Sydney on October 12. He was 43 years old and had devoted 27 years of his life to ... struggle against the imperialist war in Vietnam. In 1965, as a 17-year-old secondary student in Sydney he ... joined the Vietnam Action Campaign and went on to play a major role in building the mass movement against ...

  4. Nobel peace laureates tell HRW: 'Close your revolving door to the US government'

    use of missiles in its civil war. However, HRW remained silent on the clear violation of international ... Economics Norman Solomon, author, War Made Easy Judy Somberg, Chair, National Lawyers Guild Task Force on ... Watch's executive director Kenneth Roth on behalf of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Adolfo Perez Esquivel and ...

  5. Letter from the US: What鈥檚 behind the Tea Party鈥檚 rise?

    the Boston Tea Party and subsequent revolution. The present Tea Party emerged on the scene after ... The first was the War of Independence and the adoption of political democracy. But this left the ... institution of slavery intact in the Southern states. The second revolution was the Civil War and its ...

  6. Julian Burnside: 鈥楤radley Manning might just as well be in Guantanamo Bay鈥

    and freedom鈥 took place on March 16 at the Sydney Town Hall. More than 2000 people attended. The event ... was staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City ... that he is receiving. And this is a country which was founded on the principles and ideals of the rule ...

  7. US widens its lead over rivals

    wave of capitalist expansion that followed World War II. In the first generalised recession in 1974-75 ... businesses and utilities, and an intensification of the austerity drive, centred on suppressing wage demands ... competition While the traditional post-World War II US economic locomotive may not be running today, the US ...

  8. Why celebrate Eureka?

    bayonets. By 5pm, men, women and children had gathered at their usual meeting place on Bakery Hill and heard ... China, queued for transportation to the Australian goldfields. In a letter to his friend Karl Marx on ... money, grog and dissolution appeared to have no impact on the grubby diggers that began to appear, drunk ...

  9. Revolutionary redemption, lessons for activists: Memoir looks at US SWP experience

    after World War II, was able to pass the torch on to the new generation. "The older leaders ... story of an organization that had a generally unacknowledged yet not insignificant impact on the ... activists will be looking for explanations of what went on before, in struggles of the past, from which ...

  10. France: Huge march blasts austerity, demands democratic renewal

    against the policies of a French Socialist Party (PS) government took place in Paris on May 5. To the ... stirring sounds of the protest anthem 鈥On Lache Rien鈥 (鈥淲e Don鈥檛 Give In鈥), up to 180,000 workers, ... by Left Front leader and last year's presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon. On the day, tens ...

  11. Why be a Leninist?

    museums and libraries, in the section on "Nineteenth Century European History". Lenin upset ... themes: It is argued that socialists should not focus on the conflict between the major classes but ... instead on the conflict between democratic and totalitarian elements, or between the state and civil ...

  12. Global 'boycott Israel' campaign grows

    Israel accountable for its actions, on July 9, 2005, a large section of Palestinian civil society called ... support of Israel鈥檚 oppression and war crimes. The Strauss Group, parent company of the Max Brenner ... have been accused of very serious war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, including during Operation Cast ...

  13. Japan: Anti-nuclear movement gears up

    Environment Alexander Brown 874 Japan March 26, 2011 On March 20, 1500 people marched in Tokyo ... Nagasaki by the United States military at the end of World War II, anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan have ... Hiroshima Day, was established on August 6. Hydrogen bomb tests carried out by the US in the Marshall ...

  14. Mandatory detention is torture

    503 August 7, 2002 BY SARAH STEPHEN On July 24, the Australian government voted against the ... After 10 years of debate, an optional protocol was adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council on July ... countries. The vote on the protocol was delayed by the US government's efforts to reopen debate on its ...

  15. Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels

    sacred sites, and would worsen climate change,鈥 Chuck Collins wrote at Common Dreams on September 14. On ... members, environmentalists, and supporters worldwide are joining together to call on US President Barack ... Obama to cancel the pipeline's permits once and for all鈥. 鈥淢eanwhile, on the ground, tribal members ...

  16. Bolivia: Indigenous government defies US-backed fascists

    "black list" for countries that supposedly refuse to collaborate in the "war on drugs". ... Bolivian President Evo Morales as a "civil coup". This campaign of terror, centred on the four ... violence occurred on September 11, with the massacre in Pando of unarmed indigenous campesinos 鈥 including ...

  17. Growing gap between rich and poor

    report's figures on access to education and womens empowerment seem to show overall improvements in human ... vulnerable to fluctuations in interest rates and exchange rates on the international financial markets. World ... industrialising counties (NICs) remain dependent on foreign investment. But full relocation of transnationals to ...

  18. Haiti: A history of exploitation and struggle

    Amanda Zivcic 823 January 23, 2010 Since the earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, there has been ... Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. But by 1801 France, was under Napoleon Bonaparte's military ... against Aristide. Kidnapped from his bed by the US military, on February 29, 2004, he was flown to the ...

  19. ACEH: Freedom movement demands independence referendum

    September 11 attacks in the United States and Washington's 'war on terrorism' have ... Indonesian militarism and are united around the demand for Acehnese independence. All agree on the need for ... Yogyakarta. There are also women's and student organisations affiliated to FPDRA." Military ...

  20. Scapegoating Chinese has long history

    the outbreak of World War II. Although in Java many Chinese were in business, many more were making ... society were blamed on the Chinese. Anti-Chinese sentiments turned into violence during the revolution of ... government, orchestrated anti-Chinese hostilities were evident. On May 13 and 14, truckloads of men wearing ...

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