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1. Wiradjuri warrior Ray Jackson has passed away

   — never stop fighting for your freedom." Iranian, Iraqi and Tamil refugees were so happy to hear ... socialist and had previously been a member of the Freedom Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance. He ... protests, Michael Anderson's Sovereignty Conference in Canberra, the recent Freedom Summit in Alice ...

2. Toussaint Louverture brought to life in play, book

   Spanish, thus passing on the torch of freedom. However, Haiti continued to be preyed upon by European and ... illustrating Black freedom-fighting traditions. He recruited to his cast singer Paul Robeson, the son of a US ... slave, who was at that time beginning his meteoric rise to stardom on the English stage. Robeson leapt at ...

3. History of the Comintern: Colonised peoples take the lead

   that in Asia, "hundreds of millions of people are awakening to life, light and freedom. What ... I ended, freedom struggles broke out across Asia, impelled by the victors' denial of colonial ... met in a separate congress in 1922. That same year, a massive rise of workers' struggles in China ...

4. Building a left wing in Sri Lanka

   class and among peasants. However, during its coalition with the Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP) in ... there is freedom of expression and freedom to demonstrate and to strike. When the PA government was ... can expect to see a rise in unemployment and also unrest and agitation by those affected. Already, ...

5. Martin McGuinness: An Irish republican who struggled for justice and peace

   1969. Amid rising violence against nationalist and Catholic civilians, the British Army was deployed in ... win freedom. A key part of that process was the deep political struggle unleashed by the campaign against the ...

6. Glenn Greenwald: Dictator-loving Trump's fake 'support' for Iranians is gross hypocrisy

   freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FORCHANGE!” Trump tweeted. ... rights of the Iranian people to rise up against their leaders is—it is—well, it shouldn’t be surprising ...

7. Gains and challenges for the left in Portugal

   oppression and the rise of extreme right on the journey to freedom, democracy and equality. Like the ... interest rates. The interest repayments on public debt have not stopped rising in Portugal, as in other ...

8. Spain: 80 years on, Madrid remembers the International Brigades

   their fight to regain their freedom, and to counter the rapid rise of fascist groups within his home ... than 3000 Soviet citizens came to fight for freedom in Spain, 198 of whom did not return. The Swedish ...

9. Turkey: ‘We will join with women in the streets’ declare left-wing HDP's women MPs

   their rights and freedoms. This time, women’s fury is really vast. An anti-capitalist feminist uprising ... positions. Against the threat of a civil war in the face of rising violence and cross-border operations, ...

10. European elections: Signs of hope in the gloom

    Flemish Alliance (NVA) won with 16.35% of the vote. The racist Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) came in ... third with 19.7%, as did Dutch islamophobe Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) (13.2%). These are ... parliament. At the same time, however, the broadly defined left increased its presence, rising from 37.6% to ...

11. Castro's South African speech: 'Great solutions emerge from great crises'

    other which was condemned to inexperience and ignorance; one that enjoys well-being and freedom, the ... other that has only been able to conquer freedom without well-being. This horrible inheritance cannot be ... rise up against colonial domination from as early as the 16th century. Major uprisings in Jamaica, ...

12. International solidarity campaign with Indonesian democracy activists begins

    of labor leaders and the lack of the freedom of association. In New York City, about 40 people ... picketed the Indonesian Mission to the United Nations. They demanded freedom for all Indonesian political ... entitled "After 30 years of fascist terror... Indonesian Workers Rise Again" highlighted the ...

13. Socialist Alliance candidate Petrina Harley: ‘We need Safe Schools’

    living and lives in freedom and safety. I am running to help give a voice to those who are ignored by the ... environmental ministers. What other issues are you personally concerned about? The rise of the right-wing ...

14. John Pilger: Silencing America as it prepares for war

    Janis Joplin sang, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose", she spoke ... soldiers in Vietnam, and they died defending your freedom. Now don't you forget it." So said ... exhibition called "The Price of Freedom" at the venerable Smithsonian Institution in Washington. ...

15. Rainbow community organises for refugees

    Racism and homophobia are on the rise. Millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI) ... South, homophobia is on the rise in Russia, Iraq, Syria, Africa and Indonesia. President of the Human ... refugee rights. Activists fought alongside and won freedom for courageous queer Pakistani Ali Humayan. We ...

16. We can stop Abbott's attacks on equal marriage

    that stole Christmas has nothing on this guy who wants to steal our freedom of expression and ban ... and getting married in New Zealand — we will win this the way we have always won it, by rising up and ... movement democratic. Australia October 15, 2013 984 'Rising up and demanding our rights is the only ...

17. Sri Lanka: Fresh conflict despite war's end

    held last year, the army supported candidates of Rajapaksa's United Peoples Freedom Alliance. ... military occupation, have had an effect on social behaviour. There is a rise in teenage pregnancies, ... a marked rise in alcohol usage among young men and of suicides amongst those who cannot make a living. ...

18. Afghans react to burning of their country

    their throat. We’ve made an enormous contribution to help the people there achieve freedom, and for us ... unarmed protests against the occupation ― and US plans to leave bases behind after 2014 ― were rising ... against women for which Taliban rule was notorious has worsened. It has been fuelled by rising conflict ...

19. Eureka rebellion brought to life

    '40s), Irish freedom fighters, exiles from the unsuccessful European revolutions of 1848 and for whom the ... their demand. However, rising anger at the treatment of diggers led to a more militant faction arguing ... newspaper Neue Oder-Zeitung and cited it as example of workers rising against their oppressors. By 1855, the ...

20. Peru: Corrupt leader assaults protester

    elections. Desperate to contain the rise of the new centre-left party Fuerza Social (FS), Garcia’s APRA ... tide. In a disturbing sign of rising repression and censorship, maverick journalist and writer Jaime ... oligarchy and a close associate of Garcia’s. So much for freedom of speech in “democratic” and ...

21. John Pilger: Our only choice is stand and fight

    Cameron London “Rise like lions after slumber/In unvanquishable number!/Shake your chains to earth, like ... there is no need for tanks in the streets. In its managerial indifference to the freedoms it is said to ... implying that the rise of bloods like himself would change that. The British Airways cabin crew strike, ...

22. Refugee policy risks more lives

    for a "coordinated global plan" to tackle the rising numbers of asylum seekers across the ... world neglected the most important point: the desperate people who risk their lives for freedom. In ... more than 800 refugees. The numbers of refugees moving across the world continues to rise. Both the PM ...

23. Invisible threads of history

    rise of modern capitalism and describes features we can easily recognise even after 150 years: ... profaned..." The Manifesto also describes the rise of a class — the proletariat — with the power and the ... create "docile servants of official thought... practicing freedom in quotation marks". In his ...

24. Suharto — the Australian elite's favourite mass murderer

    the way back to his rise to power via a bloody military coup in 1965. Suharto, then a top-ranking ... more concerning for Western governments was the rise of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) on the ... Under Suharto, democratic elections and freedom of speech were completely non-existent, while opponents ...

25. UNITED STATES: Greens candidate challenges two-party system

    taxes for the rich, creating a big budget deficit, which is being exacerbated by the huge, and rising ... anti-Camejo web site. Underneath all this is the rising pressure from �鶹��ý of the trade union bureaucracy, ... the Peace and Freedom Party; Joel Britton of the Socialist Workers Party; and John Burton for the ...

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