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1. War is a racket

   war on Afghanistan have emerged. It appears that many officers took part in the cruelty. The Age,  The ... war dragged on, and the Western alliance added Iraq to the list of “terrorist-supporting” countries, ... questions started to be raised about the war’s “end goal.” Democracy and women’s rights were nowhere to be ...

2. Barbara Ehrenreich never stopped trying to change the world

   women’s lives, war, collective joy, poverty and the failures of individualism. She analysed the world of ... Nickel and Dimed, died on Thursday [September 1], aged 81. Ehrenreich grew up in a working-class, ... professional middle class had a strong impact on her. Storytelling linked to political change The political ...

3. Fighting for women's liberation in Trump's America-- interview with International Women's Strike USA organiser

   garment workers. In 1917, demonstrations by women workers on IWD in Russia sparked the revolution that ... depoliticised. However, this year a range of attacks on women around the world has led to the call for ... administration’s attacks on women’s rights was met on January 21 with huge Women’s Marches across the US — the ...

4. Call for justice for murdered Kurdish freedom fighters slain in Paris

   Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war Rachel Evans Democratic Kurdish Community Centre (NSW, ... DKCC) Kurdish National Congress Gadigal Country/Sydney A solidarity action on January 9 called for ... on January 9, 2013. It was organised by the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre. Actions was ...

5. Women take to the streets on Reclaim the Night

   action cheered the marchers on, and the night ended with a concert of women artists, at which messages of ... focused on the need for an active movement which does not tolerate abuses of women's rights. From ... abortion on demand; self-determination for indigenous women; reform of the legal system which currently ...

6. Anti-war GIs: Two books unveil the anti-Vietnam War movement among US soldiers

   style to show the terrible personal cost inflicted on at least one anti-war Vet. One story that marks ... would use them on their own officers. During the Vietnam War about 420,000 US personnel deserted, ... Books & music History Barry Healy Vietnam War Scott Camil Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers ...

7. Why did Chileans vote to reject the new constitution?

   a plebiscite held on September 4. Why? The draft would have replaced Chile’s current constitution — introduced ... neoliberalism and denies constitutional rights to Indigenous people and women. The 1980 constitution established ... Fundación Sol. Right-wing campaign Chilean journalists documented a “ digital war ” — using disinformation ...

8. Invasion of Iraq remembered

   journalist and human rights activist told a small gathering of anti-war activists at Sydney Town Hall on ... the million of more Iraqis who were killed, who suffer the ongoing consequences of the war on Iraq.  ... remembering_the_iraq_war_18_years_on Australia March 22, 2021 1302 Iraq War remembered. Photo and video: Peter Boyle Abeer Hasan Al Ani ...

9. A socialist feminism for these times

   Jevilyn Cullamat, who was killed by the military on November 28, and her body paraded as a war trophy. ... affected and there is evidence that more women are relying on sex work to make ends meet. Women working in ... states that are fundamentally based on women’s oppression — have signed up to. There is a lot of rhetoric ...

10. United States: George Floyd — One battle won, the war for justice continues

    racism and national oppression. Chauvin was convicted on April 8 and marched to a jail cell. He is under ... the Floyd lynching by knee. The original Minneapolis police media release on Floyd’s death described ... his murder — which millions of people would later see on social media — as: “Man dies [after] medical ...

11. 10 new albums to give you strength in troubled times

    climate change, not preparing for war on China. No doubt in agreement is Mongolian metal band The HU, who ... POPULISM, APATHY & EXPLOITATION  On September 1, nurses in New South Wales struck again over patient ... struck for a 7% pay rise as workers worldwide took pay cuts amid high inflation. On September 8, ...

12. Irish women on remand in Britain

    justice"- punishment before conviction. Martina Shanahan, for instance, spent 13 months on remand before she ... Risley prison on August 7, 1988: "I think any prisoner will tell you that the most traumatic time is ... Nobody told me I was going to be on my own all the time. "The first day I thought I was just on my ...

13. Sydney rallies for Rojava

    Middle East Andrew Chuter Turkey's war on Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) People's ... Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Kurdish community More than 200 people attended ... a protest at Sydney Town Hall on October 12, organised by Rojava Solidarity Sydney and the Democratic ...

14. The new evidence on women's oppression

    The new evidence on women's oppression The dispossession of women — A Marxist examination of ... new evidence on the origins of women's oppression By Pat Bewer Resistance Books, 2000 44 pp., ... social roles are built on, but go beyond, the natural differences between men and women. Thus, gender ...

15. Women face worsening violence on Nauru

    biblical movies that we grew up on look tame,” Pamela Curr told a forum on women in Nauru in Sydney on ... in Iran; and state-sanctioned rape of Tamil women by the Sri Lankan army. When they embark on the ... women have survived horrific stories and made their way across the sea only to wind up on Nauru.” Thea, ...

16. Webinar calls for Abdullah Öcalan to be freed

    Anti-racism Imperialism & war Peter Boyle political prisoner Turkey's war on Kurdistan ... Kurds had become “an attack against all progressive forces” in Turkey and become a “war on all who ... leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned for 22 years in Turkey, held a webinar on April 16. Guest ...

17. Conference discusses poverty, violence inflicted on women

    BY LINDA KAUCHER SYDNEY — The World March of Women 2000 conference on September 2 brought together ... speakers on many factors contributing to women's poverty and many aspects of violence against women ... on these issues. Beginning the conference, Thea Ormerod, from Jubilee 2000, explained that women make ...

18. Turkey, hands off Rojava!

    Middle East Dave Holmes Turkey's war on Rojava Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) People's ... Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Turkish forces have invaded Rojava — the ... a resurgence. With the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the military arm of the AA, focused on resisting the ...

19. A woman's place is in the struggle: All out against war on March 8!

    shaping up to be the next globally coordinated actions against war on Iraq. The strike and IWD events are ... the Coalition government to spend the $116 billion earmarked for the Iraq war on maternity leave, ... about the “fat on the bones” of the federal budget that he says means we can “absorb” the cost of war on ...

20. Peter Dutton’s defamation defeat

    and the need to read it alongside Dutton’s previous remarks on the women held on Nauru as recorded in ... Democracy Binoy Kampmark free speech culture wars Bill of Rights censorship The occasions when an ... Court has only left an anaemic implied right “to protect freedom of communication on political ...

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