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  1. The Gurindji strike and land claim

    In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave ... attitudes on the rights and conditions of Aborigines, attitudes which until then had been often indifferent ... MARTIN on the role of the CPA is excerpted from a longer article on the history of the struggle. The last ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Israel apologists defend the indefensible

    of civilians on the aid flotilla, have made many people aware of the truly oppressive situation ... on March 25: 鈥淕reen foolish to raise apartheid comparison.鈥 The article attacked Fiona Byrne, the ... because it is a state built on the suppression of an entire people. The Israeli system is deliberately ...

  4. Zimbabwe: Why Tsvangirai's MDC 'lost' the election

    Tsvangirai and his ministers were busy telling the world that they were lucky to be Mugabe鈥檚 apprentices, war ... money does not grow on trees, Biti showered MPs with $15,000 bonuses, luxury cars and endless foreign ... housing stands and projects for youth and women. They vigorously courted the independent African churches ...

  5. Indigenous activist's long struggle for justice

    and the Vietnam War. Can you remember the first political events you went to? On the weekends I used ... Sam Watson, candidate on the Socialist Alliance's all-Indigenous Senate ticket in Queensland, ... Indigenous struggles. Watson grew up in Mt Gravatt and is currently working on a number of books and a film. ...

  6. Indigenous walk-off spokesperson: 'We need to take the power back'

    Northern Territory. Last year, he travelled the country on a speaking tour to publicise the situation for ... organisations on any issue. We have been shut out completely from any involvement in what the government does to ... Australian government was going to war with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. There were tanks and ...

  7. Cuba defies Bush

    participants didn't think the Democrats in Congress had gone far enough in opposing the war on Iraq. ... On October 24, US President George Bush 鈥 a firm defender of freedom and human rights, as any ... doing frequently in the last three years." On October 30, the UN General Assembly will vote for the ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Behind the food crisis: \'capitalism\'s historical failure'

    years ago and $323 a tonne a year ago. On April 24, the price hit $1000. Increases are even greater in ... March. These increases are catastrophic for the 2.6 billion people around the world who live on less than ... US$2 a day and spend 60-80% of their incomes on food. Hundreds of millions cannot afford to eat. In ...

  10. Jailed Burmese refugees: 鈥榃e came here for freedom鈥

    Burmese Rohingyan refugees inside the Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC), received a notice on ... detention centres. A notice sent to refugees held on Christmas Island was longer, with pointed comments ... about 鈥渄ecision makers鈥 being held up by 鈥渦nrest鈥 on the island. I spoke to the Rohingyans at NIDC a few ...

  11. UNITED STATES: 'Fair trade' or international solidarity?

    Organisation (WTO) have rightly inspired activists in the labour movement. Many have commented on the coming ... countries. The answer appears to be obvious for labour activists on the left: we are internationalists, ... imperialist countries are imposing ever worse conditions on the super-exploited countries. Due to imperialist ...

  12. 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, ...

  13. 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 ...

  14. Can Russian Communists topple Yeltsin?

    dramatically depending on which audience 鈥 western business leaders or Russian war veterans 鈥 he happened to be ... publicity on the state-dominated television will probably close much of this gap before the first-round poll ... on June 16. But Zyuganov's candidacy remains a formidable threat, and the Communist ...

  15. Bolivia: Amazon protest 鈥 development before environment?

    a battleground of the US 鈥war on drugs鈥. The cocalero (coca-growers) movement, head by Morales, was the backbone ... Territory and National Isiboro Secure Park (TIPNIS), to initiate a 500-kilometre protest march on ... focused on the supposed hypocrisy of the government headed by Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous ...

  16. Venezuela: Chavistas debate pace of change

    a president who is a joke.鈥 New offensive Maduro鈥檚 popularity recovered in November when he declared war on ... opposition鈥檚 at times violent tactics in February. Thus,on successive days in late February, Maduro spoke at ... mass rallies of women, oil workers, motorcyclists, telephone workers, and finally peasants and ...

  17. Latin America's struggle for integration and independence

    Federico Fuentes Caracas Commenting on how much the two had in common 鈥 same age, three children, ... similar music tastes 鈥 Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on ... priest joins the ranks of current Latin American presidents that includes two women (Cristina Fernandez ...

  18. 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 ...

  19. History of Indigenous resistance

    some Aboriginal people have grown worse. On January 26, 2008, with the newly elected Labor ... continuing culture in human history." Those comments, made on a date that marks the arrival in 1788 of ... issues in the language of "history wars" in which any acknowledgement of past wrongs was ...

  20. Venezuela: Reform battle continues as Chavez ally splits

    Federico Fuentes Caracas Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on ... Assembly that will be put to a referendum on December 2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has explained ... already achieved significant gains in redistributing wealth and power to the poor majority. On November 6, ...

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