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war" by the US against Cuba, Cuban consul-general Marcelino Fajardo told a Cuba Solidarity Night at the ... Resistance Centre on October 14. Fajardo also addressed a special Jose Marti centenary celebration at the ... Friendship Society. At a public meeting on October 10, Luis Galvez, a director of the Cuban sugar research ...
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On the box
where Agnes, once a member of the Communist Party and Rolls Royce factory worker, normally puts on her ... Almodovar. SBS, Saturday, October 5, 11.30pm. Lord of the East — When the tsars founded their new city on the ... edge of the Pacific, they named it Vladivostok — "Lord of the East". During the Cold War, it ...
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Jewish films build on humanist tradition
nationality, must rank high. Uncle Moses, made in 1932, is set in New York just prior to World War I. It ... focusses on the Jewish immigrants who have fled poverty and persecution, seeking a better life, and have ... that he presides over his fellow country men and women like a benevolent uncle. The family ideology is ...
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only came out of depression when the second world war started, when women did take a major step ... The lost generation In looking at the struggle for women's rights, we shouldn't forget ... the fight for women's rights, although some of us were aware of endemic injustices in our daily ...
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'We are building the peace'
discrimination against women. Women's solidarity is a fact in our lives. Ever since the wars started in our ... strength in ourselves. Women in Black are still present on the streets of Belgrade. Of course, we ... The following statement for International Women's Day was issued by Women in Black in ...
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Indonesian democratic movement on the rise
recent Socialist Scholars Conference, described INFIGHT as "a united front of women ... in Sumatra, also centred on the issues of "low compensation and the military forcing the people ... worse, for women workers, who are mainly concentrated in mass production such as textile factories. There ...
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dominate women, they over-service them, perform unnecessary surgery on their bodies and prescribe ... every imaginable need catered for, they would rather see the destruction of the earth by nuclear war or ... life-forms we know little about, when I heard a bloke on radio say "the platypus lays his eggs and ...
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creative and intelligent woman. Perhaps women should redirect their focus on themselves and the future of ... are two things which I find almost too much to take. They are; the attack on the modest but hard-won ... gains on Aboriginal Land Rights, and Howard's pronouncements on greenhouse gas emissions. In this ...
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questions. How to best expend my energy and resources, on which issues. I ask — how many women die of ... on, August 19). I do wish, though, to take up two points. Firstly, I consider that his selective ... Michael Schembri's article on gay and lesbian politics (GLW #62), Robert Stainsby (GLW #67) attacks ...
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Cancer down on the farm
By Peter Montague The United States is losing its war on cancer, according to a long article in ... since 1971, when Richard Nixon declared a national "war on cancer". The cancer establishment ... cancer research dollars — try to put a good face on it. They point to reductions in deaths from childhood ...
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risen by 68% since 1984, according to a report in the Courier Mail on October 14. "Financial ... time", he told the Courier Mail. These statistics once again reinforce the need for women to be able to ... but a socioeconomic and political reality for many women. Susan Price Brisbane Art and politics Tony ...
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line on gun law reform. What a disappointment. 1. What is "bourgeois individualist" about ... responsibility — if you are responsible enough to own a deadly weapon (and who decides that is a debate on its ... women are going to live in fear, only empowering them to defend themselves is going to give them any ...
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Lanka, we call on the international community to assist the warring parties to abandon the military path ... being asked to pontificate on the Cuban or Sandinista revolutions, or give the final word on 1917. ... parties opposed to other working-class parties and it is a blight on Australian left politics that such ...
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can be little recognition of men's and women's true needs when helpers act with ideological ... blinkers on, that shut out the reality they dislike. Such a reality may be that some fathers care for and ... protect their children, that men can be abused sexually and physically by both men and women and that ...
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Marxist essays on the English Revolution
was also another struggle going on. Landlords, big farmers and the newly victorious mercantile and ... limited by his dependence on royal patronage and court favour. Bunyan and Milton, writing during the ... ballads had a resurgence in the 1650s. Hill cites his historian-comrade, E.J. Hobsbawm, on social bandits ...
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green party. Although I don't know the details of how the meeting on May 18/19 was called and who ... for full discussion and comment. From that point on, the process must be driven from the bottom up to ... Scott Farquhar Crows Nest NSW Nurturing children Debra Wirth in her column on paid housework (April 24) ...
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Playing on white Australia's great phobia
broadcast for the ABC.) The extraordinary scenario is based on what must be white Australia's greatest ... to a prison camp where, in the company of several PNG women, she is maltreated and finally raped by ... made entirely clear, Angela, but not her companions, is released and placed on a ship bound for, of all ...
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German Greens set sights on parliament
is not based on war to solve conflicts. "I think our governments are using the horror of ... The founding conference of the Alliance 90 Greens Party was held in Leipzig on May 14-16. It ... are open to considering a governmental alliance. Wolfe disagrees strongly on both counts. "I ...
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Doctor blows whistle on health authorities
the obstetrics training that he began late last year. Nitschke's bad year began on March 24, ... 1993. On that day, hospital administrators organised a briefing session for medical and nursing staff on ... on a two-week training course on the procedures for a patient admitted with exposure to radiation. ...
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politically pure anyone could be in his situation. Diana Palmer Malvern Vic Greens Garry Mclennan (Write On ... about time we encouraged everyone on the left to catch up with reality. Similarly, the founding charter ... let's not junk solely on one so as to excuse the other. Dave Riley Northgate Qld [Abridged.] Racist ...