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May '68
Socialist Party (SP) had been pushed to the side by its capitulation on the Algerian War of Independence. ... to attacks on their rights, but what were the issues that mobilised the working class? Much of the ... revolutionary politics, tends to insist on the cultural, ideological aspects of 1968. But what gave the 1968 ...
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Letters to the editor: Tribute to Bernie Rosen
that Bernie鈥檚 emphasis on letters later in his life was no doubt in part because his other favoured ... defender of Palestine and was appropriately cremated with a red black and green keffiyeh [scarf] on his ... had viewed the Soviet Union as well as the left鈥檚 legacy of sectarianism, yet he never gave up on ...
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Germany: Die Linke's road to an anti-capitalist program
job now, he half-joked, 鈥渋s to make it intelligible to the women on the check-out counters 鈥 our ... Socialism Economy Dick Nichols 904 Germany November 19, 2011 Late on October 23, the culminating ... congress, with only four against and 12 abstentions. Die Linke has operated since 2007 on the basis of the ...
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Why the New Right is divided
48 March 18, 1992 There is an increasingly noisy argument going on among leading ideologists of ... the right. The conservative journal Quadrant has been running a debate on the failure of economic ... a devastating effect on most of the Third World 鈥 the modest economic gains made in the two and a half postwar ...
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Srebrenica
Long lines of refugees walking past him. The camera zoomed in close on their faces. Men. Women ... Women. Children. Patiently waiting. And then pulled back on a couple talking. And it was me again! I hit ... wasn't there. It was just this documentary on Bosnia. It was in Italian. Or maybe French. I couldn't ...
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How the Cuban Revolution developed democracy
conservatism of the Creole elite. However, on the eve of a Cuban victory in 1898, the US entered the war and ... distorted by the US propaganda offensive. This book is significant and should be on every ... First War of Independence failed due to the division in its leadership. August chronicles the 1895 ...
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Fresh wave of revolt hits Gulf countries
excludes Saudi Arabia. With its public executions for witchcraft and prohibition on women driving, the ... Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those ... strengthened undemocratic elements in the opposition and helped turn a mass uprising into a civil war. Despite ...
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Why the Japanese 'economic miracle' isn't real
world war) as the world's leading owner of overseas assets, with a current net value of over $200 ... resources), was originally built up in Japan on the backs of ordinary people. The Japanese economic miracle ... overshadows the power Western capital has over Western workers, requires looking at the central pillars on ...
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ALP launches dirty tricks campaign
a 120-strong candidates' meeting hosted by the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on February 23, Greens ... not been approached by Tibetan community for council to do anything other than fly the Tibetan flag on ... has been under pressure from supporters of Israel to reverse the council's decision on the BDS. ...
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The epic struggle of indigenous Andean-Amazonian culture
It's true that the new forms of collectivism gave rise to privileged castes and wars of conquest. But ... in no part of the continent was production based on slave labour or the feudal system. For more than ... people know 4500 medicinal plants. 聲Tawantinsuyos planned agriculture based on a system of watersheds and ...
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Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative
Ian Angus 756 June 21, 2008 Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. ... genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by ... hunger and poverty on our planet", commented then Cuban president Fidel Castro in 1998. When food ...
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Under construction: the global empire
Cold War, the upside was that no place on earth was unimportant. Every country could be the place where ... 143 May 18, 1994 Dr Susan George is well known for her extensive writing on the causes of hunger ... was about 2 to 1. After World War II this gap grew to something like 30 or 40 to 1. Today it is more ...
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Britain: Dispelling the Thatcher myths
sector, where a few big companies are free to bleed customers dry. It鈥檚 said Thatcher won the Cold War ... imposed draconian laws on one particular type of voluntary organisation 鈥 trade unions. It attacked local ... Etonians and there are only four women in the cabinet. Thatcher always forgot to mention that her political ...
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Kellie Tranter: 'Assange and Manning remind us we have a right to know'
just words on paper. But as citizens and as voters, it is you and I who can and must give them life. ... a war chest for independent polls, billboard signs, television ads and advertisements, and to sign ... petitions. We need to ask every sitting member of the major political parties where they stand on this issue, ...
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ZIMBABWE: Democracy movement debates sanctions
Development Community meeting on Zimbabwe's crisis) and the next ominous: the warning on January 9 that ... Chidyausiku, replaced Anthony Gubbay, a white judge who resigned last year under threat of violence from war ... being catalysed by informal ZANU-PF militias. The threat by Mugabe to make "real war" 鈥 made ...
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'Fair trade': a cover for First World protectionism
Women, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In this country, Doug Cameron ... specified labour standards such as prohibitions on the use of child labour. Some "fair trade" ... human rights treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on ...
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Australia鈥檚 conservatives all at sea over human rights
With emphasis on the 鈥渙rdinary鈥. One of the women from the show, Raye Colbey, expressed the view at the ... noting, is one of the poorest nations on the planet, ranking 120 out of 169 countries in the United ... the scowlers of our society. If they鈥檙e not whipping people into a frenzy on some radio station about ...
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From Occupy Wall St to Occupy Earth
Zuccotti Park? What if the assault on the US's middle class and the assault on the environment are one ... impact of degraded environments on public health, it was always the same: Someone got rich and someone ... no restrictions on their effluents. We dug into our own pockets for postage money, they had expense ...
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Joesef Isak: A life of struggle
"reported" on the US defeat in Vietnam; the growing anti-war movement around the world; the development of ... 620 March 23, 2005 On March 24-28, Sydney will host one of the most significant gatherings of ... would leave some newspapers on the desk, which Isak would avidly read (reading matter was banned in the ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague 2000: Diary of the people's battle
official Annual Meetings events. Do not take taxis on the street 鈥 ask the hotel or restaurant to call one ... radical left groups have postered walls calling on Prague residents to come into the streets and express ... the atmosphere is quite different, with men in torn jeans and women with tattoos. Each group regards ...