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1. Mexican students' epic struggle in danger

   flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying ... a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in ... imposed on all students. This corresponded to a long-held demand of the IMF that the government cut ...

2. The search for common ground

   our new prime minister, Julia Gillard, proclaim on her night of victory that our nation expects the ... new federal parliament “to find more common ground in the national interest” we may care to reflect on ... everything on legal precedent. Our law has often been blind to Indigenous rights. In the eyes of Indigenous ...

3. Hugo Chavez: Hero of the poor slams Bush

   such as Venezuela's decision to withdraw its charge d'affaires from Israel during the war on ... Assembly on September 20 not for diplomatic niceties but to expose the reality of US imperialism's ... World nations to overcome the legacy of imperialist domination. Prensa Latina reported on September 15 ...

4. Prague 2000: Boris Kagarlitsky's diary of the people's movement

   The final part of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against the International ... directly on the pavement, singing and chanting slogans. Street theatre troupes perform in the “no ... police barriers the French activists stretch out ribbons like those used to mark danger zones on ...

5. Cuba: showing how to defeat racism

   parties on race lines. The banning led to a race war in 1912 which resulted in the wide-scale massacre of ... discrimination was based not only on race but, more importantly, on class. The revolutionary government correctly ... difficulties in analysing race politics in Cuba is finding accurate statistics on who is, or defines themselves ...

6. Bangladesh: What has changed after Rana Plaza?

   before. The inconvenient thing about Rana Plaza, as far as the fashion brands that rely on outsourced ... moment, the wide conceptual gulf between the consumer goods on our shelves and the exploited foreign ... be done. Three months on from Rana Plaza, what has changed? Rhetorically, some progress appears to ...

7. ACEH: Military tightens grip in run-up to elections

   occupation. On April 5, Indonesians will go to the polls to elect new national, regional and local ... Foreign observers Following a cabinet session on March 12, the government declared that Aceh would be open ... General Endang Suwarya, told Serambi on February 14: "Every single foreign national who enters Aceh, ...

8. Philippines: Moro people demand self-determination

   included. In the ensuing war, which lasted until 1913, 20,000 Moros — fighters and civilians — were killed. ... the main expression of Moro aspirations. In 2000, then-president Joseph Estrada declared all-out war ... on the MILF. The MILF has been involved in peace negotiations with the government since Estrada was ...

9. May '68

   had been pushed to the side by its capitulation on the Algerian War of Independence. Indeed, in a real ... Question: What is the background to the events of 1968? The students were responding to attacks on their ... to insist on the cultural, ideological aspects of 1968. But what gave the 1968 events real weight, at ...

10. Why the New Right is divided

    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 "rationalism", ... a devastating effect on most of the Third World — the modest economic gains made in the two and a half postwar ...

11. Gene patents: new way to rob the Third World

    is being seriously opposed on a number of grounds, the legality of patenting "naturally ... Project" by its opponents, of which there are many, including the Sami indigenous women from the Nordic ... countries, who denounced the project at the Beijing Women's Conference in August 1995. While the HGP has ...

12. Venezuela and the change of eras

    undergoing profound and radical changes based on the simple idea that to get rid of poverty you have to give ... workers, small farmers, students and women are organising to begin to change their daily lives. The Chavez ... politically and militarily: it is bogged down in unwinnable wars in the Middle East — the other pole of ...

13. NETHERLANDS: Left win, as the Dutch vote 'no'

    proceed. The media has been blaming the result on the same factors it blamed for the 2002 election of ... Fortuyn revolt, as it is a continuation of the social protest that had its climax on October 2 last year ... 50/50. There was also a bigger no vote from women than from men. In the weeks leading up to the ...

14. INDONESIA: The IMF: A globalising debate

    of the US government at the end of World War II. But they have come under particular attack in the ... the IMF insists that tariff quotas be dropped on almost every item that the US can export to ... by the ending of subsidies on fertilisers. Solidarity with the victims of these disastrous IMF ...

15. Dioxin: more dangerous than we thought

    in dioxin-exposed Vietnam War veterans. As well, on October 6 Reuters reported on a new 20-year study ... dioxin. Learning disorders Laboratory experiments on monkeys (marmosets) reveal learning disabilities in ... of the uterus. Endometriosis is increasing in US women. Dioxin, it is becoming clear, is an ...

16. Contemporary foodism

    war, social injustice and economic anarchy all take second place to the weight of advice we receive for ... Even the noble intent of the green revolution has fallen short on its promise. Before the introduction ... of the earth are now being blamed for many of our ills. The big C, it seems, is waiting for you on ...

17. Artist and revolutionary

    "chip-on-the-shoulder class rubbish", while the poet Geoffrey Dutton could muse with genuine perplexity on ... activities- from the anti-eviction and free speech campaigns to the struggles against war and fascism. Even ... all this political activism, he drew and painted. His subsequent career is rich in lessons on the ...

18. The struggle for peace in Guatemala

    their war-ravaged country. The mass movements of the early 1970s grew from agricultural worker's ... to organise on the big plantations or fincas. In 1972, peasants' daily wage was 90 centavos, ... seasonally, during harvest time, and spent the other nine months on their own small plots in the mountains. It ...

19. Letters to the editor: Tribute to Bernie Rosen

    emphasis on letters later in his life was no doubt in part because his other favoured forms of political ... was appropriately cremated with a red black and green keffiyeh [scarf] on his coffin. Bernie would ... Soviet Union as well as the left’s legacy of sectarianism, yet he never gave up on socialism because, as ...

20. Germany: Die Linke's road to an anti-capitalist program

    job now, he half-joked, “is to make it intelligible to the women on the check-out counters — our ... Socialism Economy Dick Nichols Late on October 23, the culminating vote of the program congress of ... and 12 abstentions. Die Linke has operated since 2007 on the basis of the “programmatic key points” ...

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