Sarah Eleazar is a Pakistani journalist and member of the socialist Awami Workers Party (AWP). She co-edits Tajdeed, a left research journal in Urdu.
Eleazar will be a featured guest at the in Sydney on May 13-15. She spoke with 麻豆传媒 Radio on Melbourne community station 3CR in March about the fight for women鈥檚 liberation and socialism in Pakistan. The first part of an abridged transcript is below.
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Sun filters through as a golden blur in low-resolution photos and a few seconds of shaky video clips 鈥 evoking the difficulty of getting footage of a protest the Nauru government does not want you to see.
But even with three fences in the way, you can still see the 144 asylum seekers, including children, who are protesting against their detention in the Nauru Regional Processing Centre.
The struggles of Kurdish women in Rojava Kurdistan (Northern Syria) became known to many people in the world during the brutal attacks of ISIS against the city of Koban锚 in September 2014.
The biggest barrier to the rational economic policies of Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist leader of the British labour Party, is the huge profits the super-rich are making from irrational ones.
The Bank of England has shelled out 拢375 billion in 鈥渜uantitative easing鈥 since the 2008 crash. It has, quite literally, created electronic money out of nowhere and used it to buy up financial assets held by the banks. The idea has been to pump 鈥渓iquidity鈥 鈥 lendable money 鈥 into the economy.
Palestine has sent 19 rescuers to Ecuador in the aftermath of the South American country's devastating earthquake 鈥 which is 19 more than the US, who have sent none at all, TeleSUR English said on April 21.
Tiga Bayles, a Birri Gubba Gungalu man and a Dawson River Murri has died after a long battle with cancer.
When I heard that Tiga had passed away I was taken back to when I first met him at Sydney's Radio Skid Row. He felt strongly that Indigenous voices should be heard on air, and helped set up Radio Redfern, which started broadcasting for 10 hours each week on Radio Skid Row in the early 1980s. He told me at Radio Redfern in 1989: 鈥淢y people have an oral history and culture so we use radio.鈥
Despite a decisive victory on April 19, providing further confirmation of her likely nomination, in many respects Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton emerged from the New York primary more damaged and her party more divided.
Palestine has sent 19 rescuers to Ecuador in the aftermath of the South American country's devastating earthquake 鈥 which is 19 more than the US, who have sent none at all, TeleSUR English said on April 21.
In a stunning rebuff to the party establishment, delegates to the federal convention of the Canada鈥檚 social democratic New Democratic Party, meeting in Edmonton, Alberta April 8-10, voted to reject Thomas Mulcair as their leader. They voted to begin reorienting the party to become a leader in Canada鈥檚 climate justice movement.
Speed Sisters
Directed by Amber Fares
2015
Google 鈥渟port鈥 and 鈥淧alestine鈥 and what does the search engine return? Football, football and more football.
Soccer seems to be the only kind of sport associated with Palestine 鈥 and the fever that grips the West Bank and Gaza during national games or matches between popular international clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid bears this out.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has praised the efforts of rescuers, health teams and security forces that have significantly helped the lives of the people affected by the April 9 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
A Facebook page that rated the appearance of students at Melbourne University has been taken down, four days after the launch of a petition calling for its removal.
The 'Hotties of Melbourne Uni' page had been active on Facebook for years. It featured photos of Melbourne University students posted without their consent.
Law student Laura Blandthorn launched a change.org petition claiming that: "The Hotties of Melbourne University" Facebook page perpetuates rape culture, sexism and disrespect." The petition received more than 23,000 signatures.
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