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'Globalisation' and the capitalist austerity drive
corporations is increasingly directed toward branches of industry with high levels of spending on fixed ... same report matter-of-factly states: "Inequalities between men and women, between ethnic groups, ... the early 19th century up to the eve of World War I (exports grew from 3% of world industrial output ...
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Sports for a few
England has shown that emphasis on competitive sports covers only a few students and leaves out most ... Exchange, ring the opening bell and declare that he was happy to be there on behalf of Speedo, the swimwear ... several years show that countries with high gross domestic product (GDP) or totalitarian countries are on ...
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Cuban revolutionary's case for international socialism
social struggles: the role of peasants, the landless, Indigenous peoples, women, environmentalists and ... 1989-91. This led to a "strengthening of imperialist power, interference, and intervention on a world ... two main factors that led to the collapse. On the economic front, he quotes Panamanian theorist Nils ...
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Reinventing the Labor Party
women into paid employment and the massive increase in participation in higher education, which has ... a political project of the ruling class to put the burden of change on the working class and secure the ... exaggeration. Technological change, on its own, never has and never will bring about such a transformation, ...
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Socialism or neo-liberalism?
unemployed. For the first time since the end of World War II, unemployment is rising in the bureaucratised ... concrete impact of pseudo-liberal 鈥 in reality neo-conservative 鈥 economic policies on world developments. ... interest payments on the steeply rising debt, belongs in that category. The neo-conservatives say that they ...
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Climate summit 2010: Lessons for the climate movement
growth in scope and capacity. A lot has happened since the last summit: the dominance of the debate on ... poor? There is a strange dichotomy in the climate debate. On the one hand, international aid agencies ... articulate its consequences. On other hand, the welfare lobby that claims to advocate on behalf of ...
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Who can claim that we have not killed them?
603 October 20, 2004 Kate Durham gave the following speech to an August 27 Sydney meeting on ... immigration minister, is on the deck of the MV Tampa, clasping hands with its captain Arne Rinnan and brimming ... and skills in the countryside. "Refugees are often the best and brightest, bring them on ...
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INDIA: Communists discuss resistance to 'communal fascism'
pogroms, privatisation of state industries and government services and removing restrictions on imports of ... welcoming the 750 congress delegates as they arrived by train on November 25. Armed police provided congress ... Maoist-anarchist Peoples War Group guerrilla bands, which have murdered several prominent CPI (ML) members in Bihar ...
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'Be a rebel youth for life!'
aggressive push to get women back into the home as mothers and housewives; against war and militarism (John ... young rebels can counter the capitalist assault on their ideals is to remain politically active, not be ... individual activists. It's not enough to agitate around local issues or on particular questions, though ...
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The Liberals' vendetta against union
women". l "The removal of restrictions on working hours will make it easier for parents to blend ... "You don't know what you've got 'til its gone", which has taken on a new ... Kennett on IR law" was the judgment of a recent Australian Financial Review editorial. And Rupert ...
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Cuba's battle of ideas
people on this planet will inevitably arrive at, and that it will constitute, without a doubt, the best ... escape the hardships by paddling to the US on homemade rafts; millions confronted the crisis with dignity ... every neighbourhood, workplace and study centre. The revolution's birth On January 1, 1959, the ...
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East Timorese mobilise for freedom
represent the people of East Timor. What struck me was the degree of unity on the fundamental issues. ... I never got a sense that civil war is a likely outcome. I had a strong feeling that that is a beat-up by ... very cynical about this autonomy. Question: Why is Indonesia so determined to hang on to East Timor ...
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With the Timorese guerillas: 'Independence or death!'
walking in the villages, sitting on buses chatting to women, walking with the children in the streets, ... a hazy glow upon the walls and the faces of three standing men, a woman sitting on a chair and four ... your acquaintance is on. Working for Indonesia, spies are everywhere, especially in the cities. Most ...
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Lessons of the 1968 revolt
discontent with the French education system. In the years after World War II, there had been a big increase ... widespread discontent, it was opposition to the imperialist war against the Vietnamese revolution that was ... McConville gave a vivid description of the role of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the development of ...
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The government's jobs plan fraud
driving millions of women workers back into the home, after they had maintained war production. The latest ... Australian Bureau of Statistics data on "Persons not in the labour force" tell us that there were ... that the rate of job growth depends on the rate of growth of production or output. In a capitalist ...
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Bitter Palestinian anger at detainee death in Israeli jail
Prisoner Affairs spokesman Hassan Abed Rabo. On February 25, the Palestinians Women's Union issued ... Palestinians took part in a funeral procession on February 25 in the West Bank village of Saeer for 30-year-old ... Arafat Jaradat, who died while in Israeli detention. Jaradat's death on February 23 in Megiddo ...
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DSP congress: globalising resistance to capitalism
movement. In the congress report on The international political situation: austerity and war, 91自拍论坛 ... on a nationalist program of defending American jobs against workers from other countries. The Seattle ... significance of this movement in world and Australian politics, and to vote on proposals to help develop this ...
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Sharing the work or sharing the poverty?
are already on part-time and most of these are hired on a casual basis. These are mostly women on ... federal treasurer John Dawkins in his budget speech on August 17. However, the budget did little to tackle ... Australian businesses to expand production on a world-competitive basis". The Keating government leaves ...
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Letter from the US: Supreme Court rules step forwards, leap backwards
other states on June 30 turned into huge celebrations. DOMA had been used to bar couples in same-sex ... victory. Nevertheless, the tide has turned. Now it is the anti-gay bigots who are on the defensive. As it ... possible by 鈥渇ive wise men and women鈥. In fact, they are only 鈥渨ise鈥 in the best interests of the ruling ...
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Not mercy, but justice
passports and citizenship through the newly ratified Law No. 12/2006 on Citizenship. In principle, the ... government's intentions are positive. But from the various statements the government has made on the question, ... (labour, farmers', women's, youth, academic, cultural, sports and journalists' groups), ...