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1. After Paris attacks: Less freedom, more war?

   invasion of Iraq in 2003, for instance, led to the deaths of more than 1 million people, according to one ... Front ― the Left Party and the French Communist Party ― called on supporters to attend the rally, but to ... liberties at home, while sneaking through more austerity measures. On the day, the politics of the march ...

2. 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. ...

3. Write on: Letters to the editor

   continuing rape and pillage of an ancient landscape and culture. The invasion is continuing at an annual rate ... invasion by stealth to disenfranchise a people that have lived here in relative harmony with the ... a rally outside Parliament House at 1pm. This rally was in favour of legislation developed by Peter ...

4. UNITED STATES: How the Bush gang seized the 'opportunity' of 9/11

   a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks. In the days that followed September 11, 2001, ... Iraq from "day one". He reported that at the first National Security Council meeting, 10 days ... told CBS 60 minutes on March 21 that the day after 9/11, Bush "dragged me into a room with ...

5. Letter from the US: Democrats 'no progressive alternative'

   rallies of the mis-named “conventions” of the twin parties of Wall Street are over. The Tea ... parties supported the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Both seek to crush Iran and return that country ... didn’t carry the day. This reassertion of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel underscores the ...

6. Pakistan: Workers and peasants resist fundamentalists and elite

   Afghanistan in 1996). However, the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan created a contradiction. The US was ... 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 ...

7. Palesine: Behind the Mecca Accord

   The deal, brokered by Saudi Arabia, was signed after a two-day emergency meeting in Mecca. Under the ... occupation". Meshal wrote, "We Palestinians have been victims of invasion, occupation and oppression for ... about the escalating Hamas-Fatah conflict. In the past month, dozens of rallies and marches have been ...

8. Pakistan: People challenge US-backed dictator

   rally in Rawalpindi. She was released the following day. [See eyewitness account of the democracy ... Pakistan as a base for its invasion of Afghanistan, but allowed the regime time to extricate itself from ...

9. Arundhati Roy's blaze of light

   world's people under modern-day imperialism. Reading them together is a smooth ride: we're guided by ... uncompromising, independent, intellectual feminism. It's a pleasure to read how she rallies her fellow women, ... Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. This sort of perspective undoubtedly places her on the radical wing of the ...

10. DSP recommits to building the Socialist Alliance

    an organised socialist presence since the days of the Communist Party — 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 �鶹��ý Weekly fighting fund ...

11. Oz and East Timor musicians get together

    Indonesian music and must recite Indonesian poems every day. However, the young in East Timor are determined ... 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 ...

12. IRAQ: Media's "civil war" talk conceals colonial war

    thousands of Sunnis and Shias joined a mass rally that day, carrying Iraqi flags and chanting "No to ... Army militia to protect Sunni mosques. Later that day, Sadr read a message from the Iranian holy city ... America!" The next day, Reuters reported that in Baghdad, "20,000 of Sadr's followers called for ...

13. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    parliament and war memorial. Our 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    Hussein does not mean a great deal. Just as prior to the invasion, the pro-Saddam rallies didn't mean ... role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. "It is important to criticise the Sharon government's ... rallies, and the �鶹��ý Weekly 's frequent juxtaposing of the war with articles on Israel ...

16. Israel: victim or aggressor?

    which had fought a guerrilla war against the occupying forces since the 1982 Israeli invasion, Tel ... armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War. The war proved to Washington Israel's military ... Farms respectively) seized in the Six-Day War. This state of permanent war and the neo-colonial politics ...

17. 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 ...

18. Cuba celebrates strength and looks ahead

    never stopped trying to roll back the Cuban Revolution, through assassination, invasion, terrorism, ... parties and small rallies across the country on the night of the 25th, and music blaring until well into ... mass rally, Cuban President Fidel Castro addressed a crowd of about 5000 assembled guests at a formal ...

19. ITALY: From the Multitudes of Europe

    powerful of Europe waged war on us, and so we called the Czech people to arms. We drove back all invasions ... neighbour". We arrived on the day of St. Margaret, a candle in one hand and a spear in the other. The knights ... who rallied for the crusade against the Turk, and decided to wage war on the nobles instead, in the ...

20. Imperialist hostility, ethnic chauvinism fuel Congo imbroglio

    DRC's east. Within days, the main cities in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu — Goma, ... 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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