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1. Tackling the cost-of-living crisis by increasing it?

   close eye on inflation, its aim being to keep it in the target range of 2–3% a year. When it sees it ... external price shocks such as wars, pandemics or oil prices, little can be done to address the causes. The ... several wars are happening. The data also shows that there is not sustained demand inflation. Despite ...

2. Obama and the 'war on terror'

   "war on terror" in Afghanistan, while signalling he wants to wind it back in Iraq. During the US ... by many US voters of former president George Bush's open-ended "war on terror", Obama ... all his rhetoric concerning "change", Obama's commitment to the "war on ...

3. The Poors of Chatsworth: South Africa's undeclared war on the poor

   from the frontlines of the [South African] establishment's 'undeclared war' on the ... not last long. The ANC moved quickly to lower tariffs on imported clothes with the result that the ... As early as July 1994, eviction notices were served on 950 tenants who were in arrears. Water and ...

4. Sri Lanka: Tamil women demand return of land

   Anti-racism Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Chris Slee Tamil Tamil Eelam ... Protesters have been camping outside a Sri Lankan Air Force base since January 31 at Keappaapulavu on the ... north-eastern coast of the island of Sri Lanka. Women are playing a leading role in the protest. They are ...

5. Mexico: US and corporations key factors behind most violent year yet

   Democracy Tamara Pearson North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) War on drugs US imperialism ... The comment lacked awareness of the already disastrous outcomes of the so-called “war on drugs” in ... Transnationals and the “war on drugs” With the onset of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993 ...

6. Washington's war on democracy (and its discontents)

   Katie Cherrington The War on Democracy Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin 96 minutes In ... renowned dissident journalist John Pilger's latest documentary, The War on Democracy — his first ... "war on terror" being waged today. Pilger refers to the justifications made for US interventions ...

7. Kurdish revolutionary: 'We are showing the strength of women'

   army. She is unmarried, as is demanded of all Kurdish fighters, men and women. Since Syria's war ... Imperialism & war Socialism Feminism Anti-racism International solidarity Democracy Economy ... Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Nesrin Abdullah ...

8. Gaza activist: 'Israel has declared war, act now'

   Harrison Israel has launched a fresh full-scale war on the besieged people of Gaza. The Palestine In My ... civilians on Gaza. Israel has declared war on Gaza. Israel says that it was a surgical attack aimed at ... against Israel's war across Australia. shamikh_badra_speech_on ...

9. Alexandra Kollantai — a Bolshevik fighter for women’s liberation

   key women in the revolution. Below is a short piece on Alexandra Kollantai drawn from the pamphlet. ... gains for women, including full formal equality, legalisation of abortion and attempts to liberate women ... Comrades in Arms: Women in the Bolshevik Revolution by Kathy Fairfax. It includes short biographies of some ...

10. John Pilger on the coming war with China

    Imperialism & war John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps ... a political embarrassment. I have spent two years making a documentary film,  The Coming War on China,  in ... strategist, Herman Kahn – “thinking the unthinkable”. Kahn’s book,  On Thermonuclear War,  elaborated a plan ...

11. India: Modi government declares war on students, democracy

    Modi's government is waging war on campuses and on the right to dissent. If one young life — that of ... of Delhi — mainly by students and youth — offered a remarkable resistance to Modi's war on ... women, intellectuals and citizens from all walks of life, marched on the streets of Delhi to show ...

12. UNITED STATES: Ashcroft's war on activism

    "sailor-mongers [who] get on board vessels and by the help of intoxicants, and the use of other means, often ... modern civil rights movement — may become yet another casualty of Ashcroft's attack on civil ... Tubman's "underground railroad", which helped slaves escape north, to the struggle of women to ...

13. Statement against war on Tamils initiated by World at the Crossroads participants:

    embarked on the reconquest of the island's north through brutal war with devastating consequences for ... �鶹��ý Weekly in Sydney, April 10-12. A selection of the much larger number of names that signed on ... ago the government started registering all Tamils in Colombo on the grounds that they could be ...

14. VENEZUELA: Why the right has declared war on Chavez

    during the corrupt bipartisan reign of the Social Christians and Democratic Action, have declared war on ... indigenous and women's rights and free health care and education up to university level. Chavez faces ... reinforcing a constitutional ban on the privatisation of the state oil company. Allied with Chavez's ...

15. Summer reading: recommended books of 2013

    World War, Britain played a double game: trying to crack down on offshore skulduggery while ... terrorism. Scahill uncovers some of the darkest aspects of the “war on terror’ by speaking to the civilians, ... with him on his latest film, Utopia. I’d claim working with Pilger was the realisation of a childhood ...

16. Women take to the streets for peace

    BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — “Women and children will the ones who will suffer the most if the war on ... Lemon, Win Childs is organising the February 21 Women for Peace rally. “A war will have a catastrophic ... oppose Bush and Howard's push for war. The Women for Peace rally will begin at 12.30pm in Hyde Park ...

17. Socialist candidate: 'System change urgently needed'

    incensed by the Iraq war in 1991 and I came across Direct Action and then �鶹��ý. When I was a young ... I went to Cuba later on, inspired by the prospect of revolution in Latin America and across the world. ... and against the militarization and threat of war, including the threat posed by AUKUS and nuclear ...

18. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    you in your cause. I was with my partner shopping on Saturday shopping when I spotted an anti-war ... Anti-war protest in Taree Two-hundred-and-fifty protesters marched from Johnny Martin Oval to the ... Queen Elizabeth Park in Taree on Saturday February 14, where they listened to speakers from across the ...

19. Vietnam War: 50 years on, rulers still spreading myths

    of the rhetorical sanitisation that routinely accompanies official US pronouncements on the war in ... Imperialism & war David T. Rowlands The reality of the Vietnam War as a brutal, imperialist ... anniversary of the war’s beginning in 1962. Starting this year, the government will implement “a 13-year ...

20. John Pilger: The secret country again wages war on its own people

    Imperialism & war History Democracy Indigenous John Pilger Australia has again declared war on ... its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid ... Vulnerable populations, already denied the basic services most Australians take for granted, are on notice of ...

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