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1. Basic income is a human right

   overwhelmingly by those with no alternative — will rise significantly. How much would you actually have to pay ... living can drop dramatically as the number of inhabitants in a shared house rises. When they have access ... eliminates the greatest coercive tool of employers and opens the way for genuine freedom of choice for ...

2. The best available government

   Labor’s vote fell from 43.5% to 38%, with the Greens rising almost 4% to nearly 12% and the other 1.5% ... rise of the Greens who increased their share of the vote by 50% — mostly at the expense of ... freedom to introduce legislation. The Greens are also demanding consideration of a higher super-tax on ...

3. Israel's real 'peace' plan

   the rise of Hamas. The authors are quite harsh in their treatment of Fatah, describing it as becoming ... the Israeli occupiers. The decline of Fatah is accompanied by the rise of Hamas, partly as a result of ... under the freedom provided by the "war on terror" and the new quests for "peace" on ...

4. INDONESIA: Discrimination against ethnic Chinese

   based on ethnicity and religion. This has given rise to human rights violations in the social, economic, ... traders from conducting business in the countryside. However, citizens were still allowed the freedom to ... the rise of the fight against racial discrimination. We remain grateful to the student movements that ...

5. Chinese workers and farmers fight exploitation

   protests, its Ministry of Labour has revealed a dramatic 73% rise in labour disputes to 33,000 cases in 1995 ... and unsafe working conditions — but a rising number of protests concern unpaid wages at state firms. ... the norm. Also serious are the infringement of personal freedoms and dignity. A 1994 CNA report ...

6. Hand of Third Force seen in killings

   Force" which has armed and trained Inkatha Freedom Party members and planned, in cooperation with senior ... two high rise buildings, according to witnesses. In the panic that ensued, the heavily armed IFP ... snipers" police in high rise buildings who had been dispatched "to observe the marchers". It was ...

7. Greenhouse effect: business adds to the hot air

   of temperature rise is much lower than that predicted by most greenhouse effect computer models, and ... and by 2005-2010 if they increase at their present rate of increase) will cause a 2-4 degree rise in ... requires the untrammelled freedom to buy cheap, sell dear and damn the externalities (like the environment ...

8. Sheila Jeffreys and the sexual revolution

   but she fails to relate this to the social conditions which have given rise to them. Perhaps the most ... occurred in the context of the rise of broad social movements challenging major aspects of capitalist ... rich. For me, freedom means more than solving the question of sexuality. Jeffreys' analysis offers ...

9. Deutschland

   sentiment is on the rise, especially in East Germany. Here massive unemployment in the wake of unification ... formalise the existing split between wealthy and poor nations. How different is this rising German ... pressures, travel freedom and insidious culture from the West are certain to speed up the erosion of the ...

10. Lithuania votes for independence

    the three republics combined with unrest due to food price rises to create a climate of crisis which ... first step in a campaign to dismantle all the freedoms won by Soviet citizens in the last six years. ... demonstrations against proposed food price rises, voted against them. A democratic approach and a willingness to ...

11. German parties plan to ban refugees

    neo-Nazis, as they claimed victory for driving the asylum seekers out. The rise in racism and support for the ... de-industrialisation and huge rises in rents. The Baltic port of Rostock, as a part of the former German Democratic ... are nominally unemployed but not in the Western sense... Insecurity is the price of freedom. We cannot ...

12. Hungary's 'transition' to squalor

    denies that political freedom, civil rights, national sovereignty and integrity, and the rule of law are ... project create a fertile soil for crime and hostilities, and eventually give rise to fascistic tendencies ... unemployment, rising fascism and war is enough to contrast what we did not have in the region during the postwar ...

13. Sri Lanka: Tamils demand genocide investigation

    killings, torture and violations of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly”. ... It expresses alarm at “the rapid rise in violence and discrimination on the basis of religion or ...

14. An Orwellian attempt to silence free expression and dissent

    Melbourne also rise above to be part art form, part presentation, part freedom of expression and equal ...

15. and ain't i a woman?: The First Ladies' Club of Hypocrisy

    escape and was killed'." Early signs indicate that women have been sceptical that the rise of ... the Northern Alliance will be accompanied by real freedoms. Many women still wear their burqa out of ...

16. Britain: Corbyn presents a radical alternative

    the public sector; Giving a pay-rise for NHS staff; Ending privatisation in the NHS; Halting all ... Tory-style Brexit; insistence on a meaningful vote in the parliament in the process; and freedom of movement ...

17. John Pilger's 2009 Sydney Peace Award speech: Breaking the Australian silence

    forward to working with the great American democracy, the arsenal of freedom." Since the Second World ... War, the arsenal of freedom has overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 ... interest. In the arsenal of freedom, we have two categories of victims. The innocent people killed in the ...

18. Greek people take to streets to defy austerity, repression

    health and welfare services, decent education, art and culture, democracy, freedom, dignity. The troika ...

19. Burma: Rohingya refugees flee new wave of violence and ethnic cleansing

    harassment led by government officials. “It is profoundly concerning for women’s rights, media freedom and ... Rohingya people were forced by the military into what are essentially concentration camps. Denied freedom ... still retains much institutional power. It has also been motivated by the rise of Buddhist extremist ...

20. The burqa: reject the fake 'feminism' of the right

    a contribution to the current debate about the burqa and the disturbing rise of anti-Muslim extremism, not only ... religious freedom, it is also racist because it holds only one sector of society responsible for sexism: ...

21. New poll: Majority want troops out of Afghanistan

    number is certain to rise unless the troops are withdrawn. The former Howard Liberal-National government ...

22. The Dubliners' 'The Old Man' — remembering war through the eyes of a working man

    wars-- remembering it as a tragedy and waste of life, whose promises of "freedom" and progress ... Great Depression and the rise of fascism. Not ever the defeat of fascism in World War II brings ...

23. Spain: Left councils heading resistance to 'war on terror'

    invincible world army existed that could wipe out Islamic State, a new terrorism would rise from its ashes. ... rights and freedoms. On the contrary, it is essential to work out an effective but not symmetrical, ...

24. West Papua: Footage exposes new mass arrests, human rights abuses

    least uncertain of what to do, in the face of rising international support for a free West Papua, ... hear them yelling “merdeka” (freedom). This is the fifth truck with activists that went past in ...

25. Colombia: Left fights for space under right's terror

    freedom of movement in a dangerous city and giving the people he represented greater access to public ... city’s government project] is that the people itself rise up”. Petro’s party Alianza Verde is responding ...

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