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Thousands rally for a free East Timor
By Arun Pradhan Thousands of people rallied across Australia on November 12 to commemorate the ... Action). The rally concluded with a message from Xanana Gusmao, who said, "The struggle continues on ... In Darwin, Tom Kelly reports that activities commemorating the massacre began at 8am on Friday with ...
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The Pope And The Poor
allied with Reagan in the fight against Sandinista Nicaragua, it condemned Bush's Gulf War; defender ... of human rights against dictatorships, it is trying to impose a ban on abortion in Poland, against ... power within the church. This is shown by his particular virulence on matters of sexual morality and in ...
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Solidarity closes government's umbrella
investors are complemented by taxes on state enterprises that keep wage rises to 60% of the rate of ... individuals and as a group. "Now we have decided to look after the basic interests of people on the ... dates back to before the second world war. Unionists at PILMET explained that in their factory and ...
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Amnesty slams Australia's human rights abuses
part of governments to on the one hand embrace NGOs, to say "look at these fine men and women ... community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his ... and we knew that behind the dismantling of this most graphic symbol lay the end of the Cold War. With ...
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Sharing the work or sharing the poverty?
are already on part-time and most of these are hired on a casual basis. These are mostly women on ... John Dawkins in his budget speech on August 17. However, the budget did little to tackle the problem ... businesses to expand production on a world-competitive basis". The Keating government leaves the ...
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Unaccountable police and Aborigines
processing, jailing and at times murdering Aboriginal people. This is little short of a war on the Aboriginal ... ownership, conservative editors and reliance on police and prison officers for information leads many ... protest march over Aboriginal deaths in custody on September 25, the day after the 2000 Olympic decision ...
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British Labour: what's left?
party actually supported the government in spending billions of pounds on Cold War "defence". ... the evidence was produced on World in Action two weeks ago by York University. Although this figure is ... shown, the decline in life expectancy among British men and women represents a social impoverishment ...
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Race relating in Cuba
women from Chicago who has lived and worked in Cuba for eight years, told us of her frustration at being ... all colours. Still, she noted, "Young people are taking on fashions that show a certain pride. ... we saw We chose to go to Cuba as part of a study seminar on public health. At hospitals, polyclinics, ...
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Politics after the Labor decade
By Peter Boyle It wasn't very long ago that we listened with horror to reports on the ... John Hewson promises to implement similar policies on a national scale. But if a Hewson government ... comes in, will it be a qualitatively new development, or just a variation on the course of the last ...
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Human rights, the UN and the US blockade
tragedy and concentrate on elitist concerns. War, xenophobia, neo-fascism and racism are proliferating all ... around us; perfidious forms of women's and children's degradation are on the rise; unemployment ... of the United Nations General Assembly, on October 3, 1994. While we are here making speeches, the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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From slavery to democracy
so-called Coloureds, Indians — 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 ...