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1. Sudan: ‘Mothers and Fathers March’ supports youth resisting the coup

   part in the Mothers and Fathers March in Sudan, on February 26, to voice their support for the youth ... junta daily on the streets. The security forces attacked this demonstration, injuring at least 34 ... by army chief Abdel Fattah al Burhan on October 25, 2021. More than 450 injured protesters remain ...

2. Philippine elections: ‘For a new politics, a new economy’

   1972 and closed down the congress. Duterte’s infamous “war on drugs” — basically a war on the poor, on ... their dynasty's hold on power. The former dictator’s son, Bongbong Marcos jnr is running for ... marginalised, supported by several left and green coalitions, decided to take on the challenge and run an ...

3. Feminists discuss sexism, racism and war

   war on women. Guest speakers at the conference included two women campaigners from East Timor, three ... women Balgoa elders from central Australia and Aleyshia Manning, who spoke on the issue of intersex and ... on the devastating impact the apartheid wall and Israeli militarism is having on women in Palestine. ...

4. A woman's place is in the struggle: Women resisting occupation

   Amnesty International has just published a disturbing report on the plight of women in Iraq. The ... report reveals how sanctions, war and occupation have wiped out years of advances made by Iraqi women ... . Two years of war and occupation have driven women into the home, seen their jobs disappear and their ...

5. Kabul Diaries Part 19: Afghan cricketers subtly defy Taliban

   Asia & the Pacific Imperialism & war International solidarity Sports Yasmeen Afghan ... team (women cricketers have all escaped). Cricket is universally popular in Afghanistan, not unlike ... version) and scored their first victory in the opening match on October 25. The moment was indeed emotional ...

6. Iran: Socialist feminists show solidarity with women’s struggle

   most Iranian socialists and socialist organizations opposed the protests and called on women to stop their ... separate our opposition to US imperialism and any imperialist war drive on Iran, from our support for the ... represent the most radical dimension of women’s struggles.  Given the global nature of the assault on ...

7. Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy

   reveals the West's “War on ISIS” as a lie. US State Department spokesperson John Kirby told a July 27 ... the PKK, and therefore terrorist. In welcoming Turkey into its “war on ISIS”, the US ignored recent ... Imperialism & war Socialism Feminism International solidarity Democracy Tony Iltis ...

8. Bosnian women call for peace and justice

   Bosnian women call for peace and justice By Jennifer Thompson Sydney — Speaking at a meeting on ... women and children particularly have been targeted in the war. Coupled with a call for the establishment ... of a war crimes tribunal was her call to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia-Hercegovina so that the ...

9. Defending Afrin means defending democracy and women’s liberation

   �ճܰ�����’s war on Afrin is an attack not only on Kurdish self-determination, but on democracy and women ... genocidal politics dominating the region. On International Women’s Day (March 8), Kurdish women launched ... in northern Syria, for the first time, a system is being constructed which is based on women’s equal ...

10. Socialists announce WA candidates

    union rights, women’s suffrage and the anti-Vietnam War movement, Salmon said only collective struggles ... continues to use public funds to subsidise massive new coal and gas projects.” Harley locked-on to ... many campaigns including the refugee rights and anti-war movements. A legal archivist who lives in ...

11. Women's right to choose under attack

    Women's right to choose under attack By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya There is a stealthy war being ... waged against women in Australia, a war that threatens to erode most of the reproductive rights and ... assisting the prime minister on the status of women, responded to a question in parliament about future ...

12. Women march to reclaim the night

    down on Victoria Bridge for a minute's silence to honour those women who had been violated in war ... in Iraq and the Middle East, and of the horrific US war on Afghanistan. Hamid argued that "women ... for women and men to campaign against the war on Afghanistan. Other speakers described the local ...

13. The women who made 'herstory' at Pine Gap

    Australia, in the 1970s), was spearheaded by anti-nuclear and anti-war women activists, some of whom attended ... Pip Hinman Remembering Pine Gap: Women's Peace Camp, November 1983 An exhibition from the ... archives of Jesse Street National Women's Library NSW Parliament House, Sydney Until September 24 The ...

14. John Pilger: Why wars are not reported honestly

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger Wikileaks War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) In the US ... Following Vietnam, “embedding” journalists became central to war policy on both sides of the Atlantic. With ... Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan ...

15. Bosnian women refugees in Australia

    will feature a panel of women refugees speaking on their experiences both before and during the war ... will be hosting a meeting organised to allow Bosnian women survivors of the war to speak about their ... Bosnian women refugees in Australia The International Women's Development Agency in Sydney ...

16. 'Comfort women' survivors to hold rally

    abuses suffered by hundreds of thousands of women during World War II. An estimated 200,000 women in were ... war. Anna Song, campaign coordinator of the Friends of Comfort Women in Australia group, told Green ... from sexual slavery during war. It will also demand that the issue of "comfort women" is ...

17. Yemen: US steps up covert war

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis war military military alliance War on terror The US has stepped ... farce' Wikileaks proves: Afghan war unjust and unwinnable War on Afghanistan (2001–2021) World ... organisations in Chicago that were discovered on cargo planes in Dubai and Britain on October 29, after tip-offs ...

18. Oxfam: Pandemic exposes systemic inequality

    by the French government after World War II when it applied a 100% tax rate on excessive wartime ... tax to those on “excessive incomes” during the war, with an average tax of 81% applied to top earners ... death of at least one person every four seconds. • 252 men have more wealth than all 1 billion women and ...

19. Pakistan: The rise of a politics of resistance in Hunza

    the War on Terror has resulted in the use of anti-terrorism legislation and discourse against ... of women’s entrepreneurial success, of the benefits of donor funding and development led by ... women, in their thousands, occupying the Karakoram Highway (the main thoroughfare linking Pakistan to ...

20. The radical history of International Women’s Day

    on their “success”. These events can make us forget that IWD has a radical socialist history of women ... International Women’s Day was born. On March 18, 1911, on the 40th anniversary of the Paris Commune, the first ... suffrage. A million leaflets calling for votes for women were distributed throughout Germany on the day. In ...

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