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  1. Why celebrate Eureka?

    bayonets. By 5pm, men, women and children had gathered at their usual meeting place on Bakery Hill and heard ... transportation to the Australian goldfields. In a letter to his friend Karl Marx on September 23, 1851, Friedrich ... appeared to have no impact on the grubby diggers that began to appear, drunk and rich, in previously ...

  2. US widens its lead over rivals

    expansion that followed World War II. In the first generalised recession in 1974-75 and in the years ... 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

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

    dividends); expansion of citizens鈥 marches across regional France on June 1-2; a June 9 women鈥檚 march against ... 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, pensioners, unemployed and ...

  5. 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.node/53539 "The older ... the 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 ...

  6. Why be a Leninist?

    section on "Nineteenth Century European History". Lenin upset quite a few of these types when he ... socialists should not focus on the conflict between the major classes but instead on the conflict between ... of the state and society. Others argue that while revolution is still their objective, it is not on ...

  7. Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels

    change,鈥 Chuck Collins wrote at Common Dreams on September 14. On September 13, people across world took to ... 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 and their allies continued to put ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Japan: Anti-nuclear movement gears up

    Environment Alexander Brown On March 20, 1500 people marched in Tokyo opposing nuclear power in ... States military at the end of World War II, anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan have struggled against the ... established on August 6. Hydrogen bomb tests carried out by the US in the Marshall Islands in March 1954 ...

  10. Mandatory detention is torture

    BY SARAH STEPHEN On July 24, the Australian government voted against the adoption of an optional ... debate, an optional protocol was adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council on July 24 that establishes ... Assembly later this year, before being opened for ratification by individual countries. The vote on the ...

  11. Bolivia: Indigenous government defies US-backed fascists

    supposedly refuse to collaborate in the "war on drugs". Oppressed take the offensive The government ... Morales as a "civil coup". This campaign of terror, centred on the four resource-rich eastern ... racist armed youth gangs, such as the Santa Cruz Youth Union (UJC). The worst violence occurred on ...

  12. Growing gap between rich and poor

    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 ...

  13. Haiti: A history of exploitation and struggle

    Amanda Zivcic Since the earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, there has been a global outpouring ... 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 ...

  14. ACEH: Freedom movement demands independence referendum

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

  15. Scapegoating Chinese has long history

    co-existed with no signs of racial tension. Immigration of Chinese continued until the outbreak of World War ... colonial exploitation and poverty of the people, and all sorts of other ills in society were blamed on the ... anti-Chinese hostilities were evident. On May 13 and 14, truckloads of men wearing crew cuts and military boots ...

  16. Burmese students continue the fight for democracy

    wiping out the savings of thousands of poor Burmese. "On August 8 [1988], at 8 minutes past 8 in the ... on the people through September. Students were asking and debating how they could continue the ... with the ABSDF on the border for about one-and-a half years before making my way to Bangkok in 1990. ...

  17. A life of total commitment to social justice

    women. Anne knew that a moment had come when she could make a difference that no-one else could for Jim. ... had known of each other and met on many occasions since 1969, when Barry Sheppard, a leader in the ... agreement on the dangers of sectarianism, which we felt dominated much of the left. Jim was always concerned ...

  18. Venezuela: Socialism from below

    Hugo Chavez, has been outspoken in his opposition to the Iraq war and Israel's 2006 invasion of ... care and education. The rights of indigenous people and women have been enshrined in the constitution; ... December 2006 elections on an explicitly socialist platform, promising to deepen the revolution. He was ...

  19. Marxism 2000 conference: confident in the future of socialism

    20th, and whose century will the 21st be? As the millennium draws to a close, we should reflect on this. ... with bombs and brutal blockades or raining destruction on Serbia from a great height, free from ... They're relishing further assaults on the huge Chinese market as China's government proceeds apace ...

  20. CUBA: Market democracy and fragmented freedom

    of producing the UN report on human development has resulted in Cuba being placed "among the ... or Equatorial Guinea) on a scale where the most democratic country registers one point, and an ... equally negative grading on political rights", the dispatch adds. Nevertheless, it does concede that ...

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