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1. Sudan: Regime tightens grip amid protests

   development and political power have been concentrated in Khartoum. The British rulers facilitated the rise of ... opposition that any attempt at “sedition” would be met with further crackdowns on freedoms. The opposition ... government’s price rises. Newspapers continue to be at the mercy of government censors and security forces have ...

2. Left responses to the euro crisis

   in the face of rising popular resentment at governments forking out billions in taxpayer euros to ... Front (FN) and the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV). Within the European left, the debate over how to ... circle of low growth and rising debt, “continued membership of the eurozone would be put on the table, ...

3. Jewish diaspora opposition to Israel detailed

   the rise of a constituency of the Palestinian solidarity movement that also identifies as Jewish. ... Palestinian rights and the Palestinian voice in what is — after all — their struggle. Landy explores the rise ... with the rise of greater diversity within the Zionist identified groups (such as the liberal Zionist ...

4. The cars that ate Sydney

   rising sharly rising as we become more addicted to our cars and our city's planning and ... their way through the CBD. During peak hour, the private car, that symbol of freedom and speed, does ... trends, peak hour congestion on Sydney roads will rise by 600% by 2016. Aside from being frustrating for ...

5. ITALY: Rich countries stonewall on debt cancellation

   offer even graduates of the scheme freedom from the debt burden. Only 41 countries have been deemed able ... rise again straight after relief is granted. Senegal's debt service, for example, will jump by 61% ... 2005, debt service starts to rise for 11 out of the 13 HIPCs for which there is post-2005 data; for nine ...

6. Growing women's movement in India

   capitalism. Waged work has made these women independent and given them greater social freedoms by allowing ... adjustment policies have given rise to the economic and sexual exploitation of women in export processing ... movement gave rise to a number of revolutionary ideas and movements, in particular autonomous women's ...

7. Bangladeshi women organise for their rights

   role of women. How has the recent rise of fundamentalism impacted on women? It has traditionally been ... economically and to suppress them so that there is no resistance. The recent rise in fundamentalism is closely ... financially. Fundamentalism is also a way of suppressing women in an age when they are gaining greater freedom ...

8. Write on

   rising seas and altered rain patterns, we are being asked to reduce our CO2 emissions. Further, we are ... length of time. In short, we do not have sufficient data to predict the weather or global warming. Rising ... sea levels? Similarly, the data are inconclusive. Land rises and falls and measurements vary. ...

9. Corruption, poverty and India’s Commonwealth Games

   Village — a dense cluster of high-rise buildings — was protested on the grounds that the allocated land is ...

10. Bloodshed and uncertainty grow amid chemical fog of war

    forces ideologically aligned with both the Kurdish freedom movement in Turkish Kurdistan) and the broader ... Since Trump took office, Airwars.org has reported a dramatic rise in casualties from US air strikes in ...

11. The machine that killed Hendrix

    creative process, not the end product, was what mattered to him. Following Hendrix’s spectacular rise to ...

12. Sudan: Regime digs its own grave in face of popular uprising

    facing rising dissent after a new round of youth protests began on June 16 against austerity measures, ... suffering caused by the rising cost of living is particularly difficult for people to digest while the NCP ...

13. The politics of postmodernism

    was coming to an end. Capitalism went into a long-term structural crisis accompanied by a rise in ... freedom for all individuals, but refusing to acknowledge the structures in our society which limit human ... freedom, it also ends up romanticising the movements, never coming to grips with (in fact negating) the ...

14. Can the state solve the problem?

    symbol of freedom. These machines, just a short time before, were closely monitored: they were the means ... minute by anxious bureaucrats, an aura of freedom still surrounded published explicit photographs. Put ... get. Thus, sexual freedom for men can be had at the same time as "virtue" and monogamy for ...

15. 'Anti-Semitism' slander ridiculous

    struggle for non-white South Africans’ freedom from Apartheid was aimed at persecuting whites. For 60 ... of anti-Semitism. Unlike supporters of freedom for Palestine, anti-Semites do not support Jews and ... the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution. The convergence of slavery and racism happened ...

16. A people's history of colonial Malaya

    at the National University of Singapore, tells the story of these freedom fighters. Such stories are ... a local martyr who died defending his land. The story of the crushed anti-British rising in Perak ... mobilise the Malay masses for freedom, at great cost to themselves. Radicals provides a vital alternative ...

17. United States: Anger explodes in Milwaukee

    high rises.” At the same time, decades of “white flight” have created a situation in which African ... the people are demanding their freedom. The Coalition for Justice feels the pain.” The response of ... worsened over the last 12 or 15 years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have ...

18. Behind Turkey's US-backed invasion of Rojava

    ideologically aligned to the left-wing Kurdish freedom movement in Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), ... development and — significantly — ethnic equality and self-rule and religious freedom. Its military forces, ... US's priorities. The rise of ISIS was viewed as damaging to Western interests and also created the ...

19. Barack Obama's plans for Cuba

    the US will now pursue a policy of “freedom and openness”, based on “people-to-people engagement”. In ... and from Cuba,” Obama said in his December 17 announcement. Obama’s concept of freedom does not ... worse, in the early 1990s, without rising up against their government. Instead of seeking to undermine ...

20. Memory and the anti-politics of Anzac

    between the hysterical patriotism of the “Freedom Fries” days and the jingoism during which most ... unparalleled freedom granted to security agencies echoes Billy Hughes’ promotion of the open-ended War ... 1980s stemmed from the rise of the anti-nuclear movement. Contrary to conservative revisionism, peace ...

21. Sri Lanka: Socialists must support Tamil rights, self-determination

    through �鶹��ý Weekly. We have campaigned for freedom for Tamil refugees in Australia's detention ... gave rise to the armed struggle. Ongoing struggle Today, the Tamil areas in the north and east of the ... need to be raised include freedom for political prisoners, the dismantling of military bases in the ...

22. United States: A decade on from 9/11

    and also by the cultural pathology of the post-9/11 US. “They hate us because of our freedoms,” was ... for assaults at home on precisely the democratic freedoms and civil liberties that the war was ... prevailed when given a democratic chance. The rise and the rejection of Islamophobia is one among many ...

23. Zimbabwe: Call for mass action against dictatorship

    regime throws at us. The hour of freedom is near... We call on all progressive movements and activists in ... freedom! Our Country is not for sale... Another Zimbabwe is possible! Another world is possible! Say No to ... would be used to pacify the urban working people from rising up. The strong possibilities of this ...

24. Pakistan: The threat of religious fundamentalism

    ("freedom fighters") fighting for an Islamic world. Under immense pressure from US President Barack ... rise in workers' pay in the private and public sector to at least 12,000 rupees (about $150) ... Trade union rights must be fully restored in the public and private sector with full freedom of speech ...

25. INDIA: Not shining, but drowning

    neoliberalism. With the defeat of Congress and the rise of the Hindu nationalist BJP-led government in the 1990s, ... me. "The fact that we have democracy today is largely due to the non-violence of the main freedom ... movement." Democracy perhaps, but freedom waits. [John Pilger's Tell Me No Lies: Investigative ...

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