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Letter from the US: Ruling class gets best electoral outcome
the first cracks in the 鈥war on drugs鈥 monolith, as Colorado and Washington state passed referenda ... capitalist class maintain an overwhelming monopoly on politics. There are only very small parties that to ... same direction, playing on racist stereotypes. Former New Hampshire govenor John Sununu said Obama was ...
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Opposition to Ramos reorganises
student, women and youth organisations. On July 15 the Manila Rizal Regional Committee (MRRC) of the CPP ... Manila on July 26. Between 35,000 and 50,000 workers, students and others marched on the Congress to ... on squatter demolitions, repeal of anti-labour laws and the restoration of the right to strike in ...
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Huge US anti-racist protests herald new movement
on Facebook put out by two women unaffiliated with any groups. As the call picked up momentum, they ... the day. "It's a definite war," Ann said. "A lot of people aren't calling it ... that, but it's a war. I'm seeking justice for my family and other people who need it." ...
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Enterprise bargaining: is there an alternative?
it, for women workers; eliminate the "youth wage"; contain no restrictions on industrial ... By Dick Nichols [This is the text of a talk presented at Politics in the Pub in Perth on January ... Liberal governments and the ACTU bring down on our heads. With increasingly few exceptions, there simply ...
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Assange delivers Christmas message: 'True democracy is the resistance of the people armed with the truth'
women. And I salute journalists and publications that have covered what has and continues to happen to ... has lied us into repeated wars that have killed millions. You can鈥檛 build a sky scraper out of ... publications 鈥 your work speaks for itself, and so do your war crimes. I salute those who recognize that ...
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Palestinians fight apartheid
the Nazis during the second world war to justify their own genocidal campaign against the indigenous ... South Africa was an attempt to build an anti-black, exclusively white-controlled state on African lands, ... Israel is an attempt to build an anti-Arab, exclusively Jewish-controlled state on Arab lands. ...
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Council defeats attempt to overturn Israel boycott
a majority of Marrickville councillors decided on March 15 in favour of hiring a venue to a newly-formed ... chambers was packed with supporters of the council鈥檚 stand on the global Boycott, Divestment Sanctions ... councillors or on the director of community services Gary Moore who was explicitly asked. Father Dave Smith of ...
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Nicaragua in crisis
side could mean war. After a relatively calm day on August 21, when the rebels in Managua agreed to ... a frightening chain of events which brought Nicaragua, once again, to the verge of civil war. Although ... Quilal铆 on August 19, in an effort to convince the 3-80 Northern Front, a group of recontras, to accept ...
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Local council to boycott Israel
Middle East Gadigal Country/Sydney On December 14 Marrickville Council adopted a resolution moved ... campaign and report back on any links the Council has with organisations or companies that support or ... links and imposing a boycott on any future such links or goods purchases. 2. Marrickville Council ...
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A guide to the Wall Street meltdown
financial crisis based on what they read in mainstream newspapers. These papers typically fence off business ... anchors rarely mentioned the economy except to give stock market reports or figures on economic growth. ... century, capitalist enterprises had become too big to rely simply on their own profits to finance ...
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Australian government continues Israeli love affair
on Israel/Palestine. Before our politicians even warmed their seats in the new parliamentary ... sittings, PM Kevin Rudd announced that he will lead a parliamentary motion to honour Israel on March 12 ... government on the multiple human rights abuses being perpetrated by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian ...
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Egypt rocked by class struggle, food crisis
activists relied heavily on the social network website Facebook and mobile text messages to publicise the ... arrests and accusing organisers of plotting riots and violence. On April 6, Egyptians woke up to find that ... resistance in the central Nile Delta, things unfolded in a very different way. On the morning of the 6th, all ...
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'A nation hostile to its foundations'
government's misinformation about "people-smugglers". He notes that during the second world war ... as long as there is a demand for their services: "It is the restrictions imposed on legal ... There are enormous backlogs in processing claims. It takes, on average, 18 months for an ...
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Timor: 'We need to mobilise people's power'
Women and a Socialist Study Centre. They are all at the early stages of development, although many ... "but we would have preferred that the movement reject the UN agreement on May 5 and then apply pressure ... are other differences too, such as on people's power as a central tactic. The PST has helped form ...
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Former CIA agent tells: How US infiltrates 'civil society' to overthrow governments
actions on behalf of a foreign power that has waged a 44-year war of varying degrees of intensity against ... denunciations that came through my mail, it was easy to see how enemies of the revolution had seized on those ... on the bandwagon of condemnation treating the two issues as one. With respect to the imprisonment of ...
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Protest against seven years of NT intervention
into Mutijulu and they declared war on our people. Thanks to John Pilger鈥檚 film Utopia which exposed ... date, a protest was held outside Alice Springs courthouse on June 21, demanding an end to the ... properly our way.鈥 Maurice Ryan, Chair of CLC, said: 鈥淚 was on the basics card for 5 years 鈥 I always wear ...
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Latin America: 'Don't mess with us'
have been uncovered, is of open civil war 鈥 where only on the graves of tens of thousands of determined ... Federico Fuentes Caracas Arriving at the Palacio Moneda in Santiago, Chile, on September 14, where ... integration Chavez's words were backed by the action on September 11 when his government expelled the US ...
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Their globalisation and ours
Doctrine" was called on to justify British extermination of India's textile industry. It's to the ... "winners" like Bill Gates and George Soros because there are "losers" 鈥 like young women in ... ever-declining terms of trade for the South and increasing dependence on inflows of volatile (mainly First World) ...
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S11 a 'watershed' for unions
rights rally, on September 12, would join protesters outside Crown Casino. But Hubbard was adamant that ... broad progressive forces working constructively together, when we focus on the points that unite us ... divided views on how to advance the question. Given all of that, the important part is to highlight that ...
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Nepali communists plan defeat for Congress
CPN-UML. Pradip Nepal said that his party had expected to win government in May on a wave of ... campaign. "Congress was able to play on fears of 'instability', because all governments since ... round of balloting, had a huge impact on the party's election campaign. The party stopped ...