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  1. When opportunities went begging

    By John Baker The 1980s were a time of change and a reaching out for unity on the Australian Left. ... decline in the strength and membership of the Communist Party of Australia; the vacuum created on the left ... by the CPA to collaborate with the ALP against Frasers wage freeze and attacks on Medicare. The CPAs ...

  2. VENEZUELA: Creating socialism in this century

    founding director of the journal Debate Abierto (Open Debate) and produces several radio programs on ... involvement of the members will not be accepted unless it is fully discussed from the bottom to the top. On ... has been impossible to agree on a united opposition candidate for president. In 1998, the US forced ...

  3. FIDEL CASTRO: cancel Third World debt, end corporate tyranny

    most highly industrialised nations. It is they who make the decisions on investment and development. It ... the entire government could go on vacation and nobody would even notice. The developed capitalist ... trade unions, universities, secondary schools, and farmers, women's and neighbourhood ...

  4. Cuban emigration and virtual reality

    for that purpose, and often carried hostages on board. Not only was the obligation to deport the ... a civil war against the regime. William Safire synthesised it very well in the New York Times: "to ... programs for Cuba from Florida, on which those who have arrived in the US illegally express their joy for ...

  5. Immigration and the environment: is Australia overpopulated?

    to women outside the home. In a 1986 report on Our Common Future, the UN World Commission on ... considered. No human population, except for a few isolated indigenous tribes, depends entirely on its local ... overpopulated. Japan is an obvious example of an advanced economy relying heavily on world markets to meet its ...

  6. Unleaded petrol: have we been told the full story?

    whole thing on too many cars. The actual figures on car ownership at the time show that while ownership ... driving hours on the road (which was political suicide at the time) or put something into cars to change ... producing it. Producers, however, kept on turning out petrol from low grade oils with the resulting ...

  7. Greece eyewitness: SYRIZA pushes rapid changes

    Dick Nichols SYRIZA Athens There were scenes of joy on the streets of Athens on the night of January 25 ... 鈥淕reece advances with hope, with dignity and steady steps towards a changing Europe.鈥 SYRIZA ran on ... a platform of rejecting the catastrophic austerity measures imposed on Greece that caused a deep social ...

  8. Tea Party politics coming to Australia?

    jocks, and aims to mobilise people on a populist and racist agenda. Last August, a website called the TEA ... for conservatives鈥 the Sydney Morning Herald said on March 5 Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott and ... that carbon pollution is causing climate change. They have called for a rally in Canberra on March 23 ...

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

    democracy!聰 A small group of young women from Latvia sit in a corner on the floor. They chew gum and ... war. September 25 I drink my morning coffee on Wenceslas Square. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to ... Part two of a three-part eyewitness report on the protests against the International Monetary Fund ...

  10. The world condemns Honduras coup, demands elected President Manuel Zelaya returns

    of men and women who attended to exercise their right to vote, and on being informed of the ... struggle to restore elected President Manuel Zelaya, overthrown in a military coup on June 28. This is only ... with representatives of the Lenca People on the way to Tegucigalpa. We tell everyone that the Honduran ...

  11. Campbell鈥檚 cuts make for razor-sharp rap

    particular, on my father's side, he was a Chetnik during World War II. There's different thoughts on ... have disappeared." On gaining office last year, the Liberal Premier cut to the quick, scything ... through services within hours. Newman wasted no time in laying waste to the arts- on his first day, he ...

  12. Zhirinovsky: Is Russia going fascist?

    Germany, where he had recently met with leaders of an extreme right-wing party, refused him a visa on ... launching of "World War Three". A ban by the French government followed soon after. Since the ... Russian elections on December 12, Vladimir Zhirinovsky has rarely been out of the news. Journalists have ...

  13. 'False accusations and major leaps of logic'

    the links that the non-profit International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) maintains with the ... on the board of directors of the Arlington Institute, Zunes claims that "they never once engaged ... in a one-on-one conversation". This of course is hard for me to judge, but by highlighting this ...

  14. China's urban workers in the 1990s

    many within the Chinese regime who like to read up on foreign ideas and initiatives on managing ... whom work on farms. Among the nation's 270 million wage earners, there are 150 million urban ... on February 4: "In Shanghai, 120,000 workers have been forced to leave their posts in ...

  15. Australian politics and Labor's austerity

    this is the escalation of trade war measures. In 1994 the major initiatives on this front have been ... increased access to cheap Mexican labour and has increased pressure on the cost of labour-power in the US. ... Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the moving forward of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). ...

  16. Let鈥檚 unite behind 麻豆传媒 Weekly

    the monthly paper Direct Action (DA) following a bitter internal dispute in the DSP that centred on ... the paper. GLW, on the other hand, has established itself over the past two decades as a socialist ... disagree on many things, yet most of the content of a typical 24-page edition of GLW is stuff we probably ...

  17. From slavery to democracy

    so-called Coloureds, Indians 鈥 are working class. White settlement rested on the expropriation of the ... war pushed the leaders of the ANC to take more radical positions. A new democratic constitution was ... seats on the ANC National Executive, with Walter Sisulu being elected secretary-general. This program ...

  18. Malaysian govt fears Bersih movt will make Merdeka Sq its 'Tahrir'

    spreading to Malaysia. He said his government would not let it happen. 鈥淪o on April 28, the riot police was ... on the rally organisers and opposition parties. Rumours have been going around that provocateurs ... fire tear gas and water cannons. Arutchelvan says there is some evidence of 鈥渇unny business鈥 going on ...

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