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1. Bobby Sands MP: ‘They can’t break our spirit’

   desire for freedom … And it's then that we'll see the rising of the moon." When news of ... imprison me. They have suppressed my body and attacked my dignity, but I have the spirit of freedom that ... for freedom, they won't break you. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and ...

2. Syria: New talks amid shifting alliances

   affinity with the Kurdish freedom movement in Turkey and broader Turkish progressive opposition. Turkish ... home. ISIS One result was the rapid rise of ISIS. The unspoken secret behind ISIS's rapid rise to ... Rojava revolution. The rise of ISIS changed Western goals in Syria. ISIS’s 2014 invasion of northern ...

3. Olympics show sport is political

   Feminism Anti-racism Economy Sports Tim Dobson The Olympics are a sporting and social phenomenon without parallel. The Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics was watched by close to 1 billion people. Viewers for individual events can be remarkable. The web ...

4. Turkey: Erdoğan’s war on women

   ultra-conservative policies of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) under Erdoğan have led to the rise of violence ... ranks. Even without the system of co-presidency  — a policy of the Kurdish freedom movement that ensures ... are still Turkey’s only option for freedom and democracy. And that's why they are so afraid of ...

5. World War II — Was it right to fight?

   the Italian resistance until US forces arrived. The threat of socialism, of real freedom and ... freedom" meant, for the US capitalist class, ensuring the freedom for US capital to exploit overseas. What ... thoroughgoing attack on all the freedoms, real and partial, that the working class possessed in the capitalist ...

6. How globalised super-exploitation makes modern capitalism tick

   Bank and International Monetary Fund diktats on tariff cuts and freedom for capital flows. The ... there was a rise in relative surplus value from labour-saving technology. That reduced the value of ... education, which rising productivity could subsidise. But nowadays, Smith argues, Southern workers are ...

7. Police try to ban Occupy Sydney and Socialist Alliance from Newtown Festival

   global Occupy movement. "This an outrageous attack on freedom of political expression in Newtown ...

8. Write on: letters to the editor

   that from the ashes of a self-annihilating system rises the hope of peace, freedom and democracy. Luke ... life rising from death, of the resurrection of hope. As we enter the 21st century, this theme is more ... improved lifestyle and freedom they now have?", Smith asked. This "improved lifestyle" is ...

9. New panic over the euro

   an additional 16.5% over the next two years. Unemployment is predicted to rise to 19%. The European ... economy, which recently recorded its lowest unemployment rate since reunification in 1990, saw a small rise ... taxes on workers, they will choke off economic growth as unemployment rises and consumer spending ...

10. Manning's expose: War crimes, lies and corporate plunder

    through the Freedom of Information Act. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows ... minimum wage rise. These factory owners, who produce apparel for large brands like Nike and Nautica, had ... protesters supporting the $5 a day minimum wage bill. The bill’s supporters had argued that the rise was ...

11. United States: Black Lives Matter movement grows stronger

    in the Revolutionary War against British rule, for freedom. Others fought with the British ... country. Resisting this second class status has been a central feature of the Black freedom struggle. It is ... limit freedoms for African Americans. In the early 1900s, the ruling class had no problem with Booker ...

12. Mardi Gras Board rebuffs Malcolm Turnbull

    Our Way to Freedom” (1982), “Fighting for Our Lives” (1985), relating to the HIV-AIDS crisis, and “20 ... for 2017 is “Creating Equality”.  With Donald Trump’s victory in the US, the rise of Pauline Hanson’s ...

13. For safe, affordable abortion on demand

    disproportionately affects the working class. This ensures that the rising costs of housing and other living expenses ... children, ensuring the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. Restrictions on our reproductive freedoms and ... free until our bodies and reproductive freedoms are not policed by this bigoted Abbott government, or ...

14. Syria: Why Rojava is different

    sectarianism. The rise of anti-Western Islamist groups such as Nusra and the IS is a side effect of this. The ... committed to freedom of religious belief and separation of religion from politics, it is committed to full ... Daesh out of fear… “We try to create consciousness of freedom and liberation. We try communicate the ...

15. Aboriginal rights movement mourns stolen futures

    with up to 1.35 litres of pure alcohol face six months jail; for more than 1.35 litres, this rises to ... Stand for Freedom campaign took a petition to parliament. Forty-three thousand Australians called on ... our freedom.” Speaking to �鶹��ý Weekly about the issue of supposed voluntary leasing, George ...

16. Egypt: Morsi unleashes thugs amid fresh protests against 'Pharoah-like' decrees

    Democracy Reham Maklad Egyptians again rise against tyranny and dictatorship. Politically, they ... Egyptian history as the blackest day since the revolution. On this day, Morsi's Freedom and Justice ... of dictatorship. The will and drive of the masses for freedom dignity and social justice will deliver ...

17. The book Tony Blair doesn’t want you to read

    minister says one of his biggest regrets is introducing the Freedom of Information Act, because journalists ... be built up as “the great gookety gook of the Muslim world” to counter the rising popular Arab ... Islamists had been championed as "freedom fighters" by Margaret Thatcher in their battle for ...

18. Big stakes in Bahrain, Saudi protests

    government buildings, “protesting their deteriorating living conditions, rising unemployment (in one of the ... strict Islamic law, which includes gender segregation, suppression of religious minorities and no freedom ... Movement, and Bahrain Islamic Freedom Movement. The Coalition for a Republic differs from a more moderate ...

19. Libya: The left should not oppose call for military intervention

    tensions rise despite repression Video: Electronic Intifada journalist Matthew Cassell on 'activist ... specific that they didn’t want extensive external intervention in their freedom struggle. I think they are ... there want genuine freedom, independence and liberation. Libya May 2, 2011 878 World ...

20. Letters to the editor

    part of the forces of production. It is the development of these forces that gives rise to the need to ... giving the impression that Dershowtiz is a supporter of “freedom of speech”. It should be noted that he ... is no supporter of “freedom of speech” when it comes to Israel. In fact, he is the complete opposite ...

21. Islam, racism and women's rights

    highest court, on the basis of religious freedom, the court ruled against her, arguing that by wearing ... anti-Muslim, sentiments and government polices have been on the rise throughout Europe, including in France. In ... record", Hasan noted. "The basic right of freedom of religion has been stripped away from Faiza and ...

22. The political art of framing a photographer

    Rudd — "those who believed Rudd's rise to power signalled some sort of shift in favour of ... Malcolm Turnbull, to put in a guarded word on behalf of freedom and artistic merit, reflects shamefully on ... real frame-up during this sorry episode of vigilante censorship was that of the artist's freedom ...

23. Mainstream parties punished in Euro poll

    Party, fell by a total of 16% compared to 2004. Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom won 17% ... Austria were the Eurosceptics, which won three seats, and the far-right Freedom Party, which won two. In ... a strong rise in support, receiving 12.4% and 9.8% respectively. The recently-founded Pirate Party was the ...

24. Write on: Letters to the editor

    defend academic freedom, the University of Western Sydney is not so lucky. Some universities, accepting ... quiet. But give that extra, academic-freedom, available to academics, why don't more of them speak ... for significant tax cuts. However, taxation should rise. If tax didn't affect economic growth, ...

25. Write on: Letters to the editor

    rising illicit drug use. Many countries in Europe are starting to see the folly of their ways as they ... Israel in May 1948. Bentley is clearly concerned with notions of freedom and oppression, but real freedom ...

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