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The rise and fall of the Pankhursts
Union (WSPU) in 1903. The Pankhursts spoke tirelessly at rallies, in village greens, on street corners ... workers alike. Adela hit a police officer's hand and got seven days' jail. The use of mounted ... became Liberal prime minister. A Hyde Park suffrage rally of 250,000 men and women in 1908 was ignored. ...
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UNITED STATES: How the Bush gang seized the 'opportunity' of 9/11
the attacks. In the days that followed September 11, 2001, the US rulers immediately recognised that ... overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq from "day one". He reported that at the first ... National Security Council meeting, 10 days after Bush's inauguration in January 2001, the ousting of ...
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Letter from the US: Democrats 'no progressive alternative'
Imperialism & war Economy Barry Sheppard The election rallies of the mis-named 鈥渃onventions鈥 ... foreign policy, there is no difference except some rhetoric. Both parties supported the invasions of ... which sounded to me, watching on TV, like it didn鈥檛 carry the day. This reassertion of Jerusalem as the ...
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Pakistan: Workers and peasants resist fundamentalists and elite
However, the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan created a contradiction. The US was Pakistan's major ... reinstatement of the sacked unionists. The LPP's May Day statement said: "The answer of Pakistani ... speaking at a 20,000 strong rally at the Okara Military Farms on April 17, LPP spokesperson Farooq Tariq ...
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Palesine: Behind the Mecca Accord
Arabia, was signed after a two-day emergency meeting in Mecca. Under the agreement, Hamas leader and ... wrote, "We Palestinians have been victims of invasion, occupation and oppression for almost ... past month, dozens of rallies and marches have been held in the Occupied Territories calling for an end ...
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Pakistan: People challenge US-backed dictator
Pakistani military and the Taliban and al Qaeda. The US used Pakistan as a base for its invasion of ... heavily armed soldiers to prevent her from staging a planned rally in Rawalpindi. She was released the ... following day. [See eyewitness account of the democracy movement by Farooq Tariq on page 20.] Pakistan ...
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Arundhati Roy's blaze of light
Barsamian, explore several themes about life for the mass of the world's people under modern-day ... independent, intellectual feminism. It's a pleasure to read how she rallies her fellow women, especially ... Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. This sort of perspective undoubtedly places her on the radical wing of the ...
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DSP recommits to building the Socialist Alliance
an organised socialist presence since the days of the Communist Party 鈥 Armidale, the Gold Coast, the ... third anniversary of the invasion in March. Building big anti-war protests when British Prime Minister ... congress rally, DSP members pledged a record $103,165 towards a $250,000 麻豆传媒 Weekly fighting fund ...
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Oz and East Timor musicians get together
Indonesian poems every day. However, the young in East Timor are determined continue to assert their right to ... has now been destroyed. During the troubled period prior to Indonesia's invasion, Abrantes ... poets, Francisco Borja da Costa, and it was used as a rallying call during the early years of political ...
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IRAQ: Media's "civil war" talk conceals colonial war
and Shias joined a mass rally that day, carrying Iraqi flags and chanting "No to America!" ... to protect Sunni mosques. Later that day, Sadr read a message from the Iranian holy city of Qum on ... The next day, Reuters reported that in Baghdad, "20,000 of Sadr's followers called for ...
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Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly
places, which we are permitted to enter on any day, except the day George Bush came to Australia. Are we ... the 53rd state of the USA? We found ourselves in Canberra on this day, involved in a peaceful protest ... on the front lawns of parliament. After rallying at parliament house the protest organisers ...
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BRAZIL: Thousands attend World Social Forum
of Lula, the historical leader of the country's Workers Party (PT), was more election rally than ... took part in an MST-organised invasion of an experimental agricultural farm near Porto Alegre, where ... book-burning. When Bove's entry permit was cancelled on the last day of the forum, there was much ...
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Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly
prior to the invasion, the pro-Saddam rallies didn't mean a great deal either. The Iraqi people are ... invasion of Iraq. "It is important to criticise the Sharon government's actions, but blaming ... ordinary Israelis with defence of Israel itself: "Anti-Israel posters at rallies, and the 麻豆传媒 ...
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Israel: victim or aggressor?
occupying forces since the 1982 Israeli invasion, Tel Aviv's key goal today is to destroy this ... relationship was 1967, when Israel swiftly defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War. ... in the Six-Day War. This state of permanent war and the neo-colonial politics underlying the Zionist ...
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Ukraine: Outside powers exploiting ethnic nationalisms
sovereignty. The referendum was called at just 10 days notice. Pro-Russia rallies were organised by the new ... authorities while pro-Kiev rallies were attacked. Western rhetoric This took place to a chorus of hypocritical ... Russian invasion in 1783 and 1939, Russian and Ukrainian settlement, periodic ethnic cleansing under ...
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Cuba celebrates strength and looks ahead
the Cuban Revolution, through assassination, invasion, terrorism, chemical and biological warfare, and ... 11 million inhabitants of Cuba again celebrated their freedom, with parties and small rallies across ... damaged and some crops were lost. On July 26, foregoing the traditional mass rally, Cuban President Fidel ...
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ITALY: From the Multitudes of Europe
so we called the Czech people to arms. We drove back all invasions, counterattacked and entered ... be a brother to each other, possessing no more than his neighbour". We arrived on the day of St. ... And yet Poor Konrad still revolts. We are the peasants of Hungary who rallied for the crusade against ...
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Imperialist hostility, ethnic chauvinism fuel Congo imbroglio
Within days, the main cities in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu 鈥 Goma, Bukavu and ... Ugandan invasion", as is asserted by Kabila and his cronies, the western press and the DRC's ... have rallied to the cause. Its military commanders include the sacked Congolese army chief, James ...
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Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly
Australian Labor Party leadership went to water as soon as the invasion of Iraq began. Labor federal ... US-British-Australian invasion army occupies Baghdad, a new quandary for the ALP is opening up. Crean is positioning ... rally were recently beaten up by 30 protesters. Left-wing Jews are not surprised, given the increasing ...
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Venezuela: Chavez 鈥 workers must be in the vanguard of constructing socialism
Venezuela's workers' movement met the next day, with around 1500 representatives from workplaces ... younger he too had been a worker before entering the military. He had returned from France the day before ... to a mass rally of students in support of the "Yes" vote. Part of the reforms includes ...