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Anti-choice terrorism in the US
founder of Operation Rescue, at an anti-abortion rally held in Melbourne, Florida, on the weekend before ... harassed outside the clinics at which they work. Just days before the murder, Gunn's son, David Gunn ... photograph and home phone number were distributed at an Operation Rescue rally in Montgomery, Alabama, last ...
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US-led war can only worsen Middle East violence
This article is an abridged September 10 editorial from US Socialist Worker. That day, US ... a direct consequence of imperialism — in particular, the US invasion and occupation of Iraq and ... This makes it the perfect enemy to help US imperialism rally support, domestically and internationally. ...
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Behind the rise of Obama
power. The invasion of Iraq was part of a plan to bring about a modern day version of colonial rule in ... invasion and occupation of Iraq as provoking more nationalist resistance and thus undermines that strategic ... thousands attend his rallies. Left forces who oppose his neoliberal policies should identify with the ...
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Unity and the anti-war movement
launched. Some 30 million people took part in the February 14-16 international day of action against the war ... than 1 million took to the streets that weekend. After the invasion, the war seemed to gain more ... three months after the invasion, this unravelling of the justification for the war — combined with the ...
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We are all Muslim — Defend civil liberties
marches, such as the March in August, refugee rights rallies and trade union mass meetings, show that the ... well when committing Australian troops to the invasion of Iraq a decade ago is set for a re-run. The ... attacks on identifiable Muslim women, whose right to go about in public without fear is reduced. The day ...
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US backs Saudi crimes, at home and abroad
first invasion, Saudi forces continue to dominate Bahrain. The Saudi devotion to Wahhabism, a radical ... miserably. A recent development in this ongoing saga was the Houthi’s compliance with a five-day ceasefire, ... has killed thousands of civilians, just two days before meeting with US officials to discuss safety ...
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Socialists plan fightback against Howard
contingent for the Sydney May Day rally this year. It also endorsed a call for a unified Socialist Alliance ... opposition to the invasion of Iraq and the like?" Bassi took issue with the NSW Labor government, which ... contingent at May Day and other union actions. It also supported calls for industrial action on June 30 in ...
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Write on
began with an attack on a rally at Adelaide University that was organised on October 27 by Resistance ... against upfront fees. The rally was a great success and aimed to protest the direction of the Federal ALP ... day. Lord criticises Resistance for collecting names for a cross campus education group, the aim of ...
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ZIMBABWE: MDC, farm workers Mugabe's real target
(ZCTU), a three-day uprising in Harare against food prices, and extended strikes by public servants, ... and protesters were baton-charged and shot by Mugabe's riot police. Protest rallies were banned. ... a Harare rally attended by 20,000 working people. Its founding congress on January 29 was attended by ...
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The struggle of women workers in Indonesia
Australia on the invitation of the Perth International Women's Day Collective and spoke at the IWD ... rally on March 11, where she highlighted the plight of women in the third world economically, socially ... Day. Can you talk a little about the kinds of issues women in the third world, particularly Indonesia, ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
Order is living up to its ideals. The Turkish invasion of Iraq has their allies — the three monkeys of ... that the government of the day serve the interests of the people, not the interests of the state or the ... Last week, I rang the Wilderness Society about a rally in Brisbane I saw advertised in this paper ...
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PALESTINE: 'They beat them, they shoot them, but they keep marching'
on a daily basis. "We would have days where my parents could not go out because of the curfew. ... There were days when my parents would tell me that there are no shops open. When I asked why they ... explained to me that because a person was killed by the military there was a three-day strike." ...
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Pakistan: The latest victims of the 'the war on terror'
argued the invasion of Iraq was a "mistake" that diverted resources from the fight against ... 60 drone attacks since August 2008. During Obama's first 100 days in office, 14 drone strikes ... on a Lahore protest two days before in which "participants spoke out against the Taliban, but ...
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Cochabamba challenges governor
called pro-democracy, pro-autonomy rally in December, Cochabamba governor Manfred Reyes Villa aligned ... Villa's previous history, combined with his December 14 call at a public rally of his supporters for ... began to march each day, demanding the resignation of Manfred Reyes Villa. On January 11, violence ...
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Trump's ‘war on terror’ as barbaric as he promised
more than 70 people with air strikes against Syrian military targets. Written days before the Idlib ... was preceded a few days earlier by the killing of dozens of Syrian civilians  in Raqqa province when ... reached its rhetorical peak of derangement in November 2015, when he roared at a campaign rally that he ...
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Labor divisions over war deepen
tolerate this. “At the end of the day, Labor will make a decision, and it will be a decision that will be ... protests the day after any war on Iraq begins. To have unions taking industrial action to stop a war the ... wasted no time on the following morning telling the press that he “welcomed the rallies”, which would ...
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Chiapas: the end of 'the end of history'
newspaper. Fifteen months beforehand, on New Year's Day 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army ... from Chiapas earlier this year. Massive anti-government rallies occur on a weekly basis, attracting up ... has dominated the continent for 500 years. I witnessed the results of this invasion in late March as ...
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Conference builds left alliances and international solidarity
the "Troops out!" rallies next March — the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq — are ... environment" to "Stop the race to the bottom", and a two-day labour movement exposure tour on October ... Worker Links told GLW: "This year, the international solidarity forum replaced the AAWL Open Day ...
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'They are afraid of you'
The following remarks were made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally ... in Sydney. The other day, the Aboriginal filmmaker Richard Frankland said this: "When ... the press that were no more servile and false than the reporting you read every day in the Murdoch ...
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Mandatory sentencing: is it time to celebrate?
adult first offender for property offences received 14 days' imprisonment, three months for ... a second offence and 12 months for the third offence. Juveniles received 28 days for a first offence, ... Act. A number of large rallies were held at parliament house to protest against the new act, as well as ...