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  1. South Korean Marxists regroup

    of the 38th parallel, during the Korean War of 1950-53, the evolution of the far left was severely ... had either perished or fled north. US-backed autocrats, keen on preventing another revolution, tightly ... crush any wider backlash, Chun sent tanks into Kwangju to massacre hundreds of men, women and children. ...

  2. Israel boycott sparks furor, death threats

    Sydney鈥檚 inner west, voted by a 10-2 majority on December 15 to support the Palestinian call for boycott, ... comparing the council to North Korea. The piece 鈥 which manages to be factually inaccurate on subjects as ... diverse as kosher food laws and Palestine Liberation Organisation factions 鈥 goes on to hail Israel as ...

  3. Bolivia: Right-wing push to stop change defeated

    coup, and has secured a referendum for the new draft constitution to "refound Bolivia" on the ... Morales government now counts on an unprecedented alliance of indigenous, peasant and workers' ... Morales-led Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in early general elections in 2005. On assuming the presidency, ...

  4. Hugo Chavez: social democrat or revolutionary?

    widespread commentary on the nature of the process of social change under way in the oil-rich South American ... country dry largely on behalf of US corporations, with the complicity of a corrupt Venezuelan elite. Any ... discussion on this process of change inevitably centres on the role of Chavez, the revolution's central ...

  5. The Gurindji strike and land claim

    employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle ... to address its attitudes on the rights and conditions of Aborigines, attitudes which until then had ... This feature by CHRIS MARTIN on the role of the CPA is excerpted from a longer article on the history ...

  6. Unaccountable police and Aborigines

    processing, jailing and at times murdering Aboriginal people. This is little short of a war on the Aboriginal ... Concentrated media ownership, conservative editors and reliance on police and prison officers for information ... annual John Pat protest march over Aboriginal deaths in custody on September 25, the day after the 2000 ...

  7. Zimbabwe: Why Tsvangirai's MDC 'lost' the election

    the world that they were lucky to be Mugabe鈥檚 apprentices, war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda camped ... 2009 to $250 million this year. While berating civil servants that money does not grow on trees, Biti ... youth and women. They vigorously courted the independent African churches and ran an anti-West campaign ...

  8. Israel apologists defend the indefensible

    and the killings of civilians on the aid flotilla, have made many people aware of the truly oppressive ... on March 25: 鈥淕reen foolish to raise apartheid comparison.鈥 The article attacked Fiona Byrne, the ... because it is a state built on the suppression of an entire people. The Israeli system is deliberately ...

  9. Indigenous activist's long struggle for justice

    Australia policy and the Vietnam War. Can you remember the first political events you went to? On the ... 599 November 17, 1993 Sam Watson, candidate on the Socialist Alliance's all-Indigenous Senate ... Brisbane politics and Indigenous struggles. Watson grew up in Mt Gravatt and is currently working on ...

  10. Hip-hop activist shows rap's power to politicise

    growing up turned you on to politics. When I first heard a song called "Black and Proud" by ... one of the many historical figures who were name-dropped on various songs throughout the 鈥淕olden Era鈥 ... of hip-hop. In the latest of your four books, "A Hip-Hop Activist Speaks Out on Political ...

  11. Indigenous walk-off spokesperson: 'We need to take the power back'

    community in the Northern Territory. Last year, he travelled the country on a speaking tour to publicise the ... organisations on any issue. We have been shut out completely from any involvement in what the government does to ... Australian government was going to war with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. There were tanks and ...

  12. Cuba defies Bush

    participants didn't think the Democrats in Congress had gone far enough in opposing the war on Iraq. ... 729 Cuba October 25, 2007 On October 24, US President George Bush 鈥 a firm defender of freedom and ... doing frequently in the last three years." On October 30, the UN General Assembly will vote for the ...

  13. British Labour: what's left?

    MPs why their party actually supported the government in spending billions of pounds on Cold War ... a breathtaking claim, yet the evidence was produced on World in Action two weeks ago by York University. Although ... Sussex University has shown, the decline in life expectancy among British men and women represents ...

  14. Behind the food crisis: \'capitalism\'s historical failure'

    years ago and $323 a tonne a year ago. On April 24, the price hit $1000. Increases are even greater in ... March. These increases are catastrophic for the 2.6 billion people around the world who live on less than ... US$2 a day and spend 60-80% of their incomes on food. Hundreds of millions cannot afford to eat. In ...

  15. Jailed Burmese refugees: 鈥榃e came here for freedom鈥

    Burmese Rohingyan refugees inside the Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC), received a notice on ... detention centres. A notice sent to refugees held on Christmas Island was longer, with pointed comments ... about 鈥渄ecision makers鈥 being held up by 鈥渦nrest鈥 on the island. I spoke to the Rohingyans at NIDC a few ...

  16. Exhumed bury sharp politics in cryptic lyrics

    a sort of primer for people to get a sense of what's going on with the lyrics and everything. ... us being lyrically focused on death, and I've always tried to keep that as the main theme or the ... 1900s." Want to expand on that? Absolutely. Corporate personhood and privately funded elections have ...

  17. UNITED STATES: 'Fair trade' or international solidarity?

    commented on the coming together of youth and students concerned about the destruction of the environment ... exploited by the imperialist countries. The answer appears to be obvious for labour activists on the left: ... governments of the imperialist countries are imposing ever worse conditions on the super-exploited countries. ...

  18. Race relating in Cuba

    women from Chicago who has lived and worked in Cuba for eight years, told us of her frustration at being ... all colours. Still, she noted, "Young people are taking on fashions that show a certain pride. ... we saw We chose to go to Cuba as part of a study seminar on public health. At hospitals, polyclinics, ...

  19. Politics after the Labor decade

    reports on the so-called "New Zealand experiment". The Australian equivalent could turn out to ... of employment contract. John Hewson promises to implement similar policies on a national scale. But ... if a Hewson government comes in, will it be a qualitatively new development, or just a variation on ...

  20. Can Russian Communists topple Yeltsin?

    dramatically depending on which audience 鈥 western business leaders or Russian war veterans 鈥 he happened to be ... publicity on the state-dominated television will probably close much of this gap before the first-round poll ... on June 16. But Zyuganov's candidacy remains a formidable threat, and the Communist ...

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