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  1. John Pilger: Flying the flag, faking the news

    鈥渘ews events鈥. Here are examples of how it is done these days: 鈥 False reality 鈥 The last US combat ... running for US president, re-branded the invasion of Vietnam, in which up to three million people died, as ... consequence of the US-led invasion, a million Iraqis have died. This figure from Opinion Research Business is ...

  2. PHOTOS & STORY: When students protested for 鈥楤ooks not Bombs鈥

    mass mobilisations in Sydney in February and March 2003 against the invasion of Iraq. He was also ... just wanted to wag school wouldn't have shown up to the rallies. They came to a political rally ... and spent all day there. They were very conscious about why they were protesting. They saw that this ...

  3. Workcover changes a threat to workers

    "Proof" could require a significant invasion of people's private lives. Appeal rights would also be ... programs. A rally to defend Workcover has been called for Wednesday, February 15, at 12.30 p.m. at ... Parliament House. Many workers are planning to converge on Victoria Square before marching to the rally. The ...

  4. FSLN reaffirms revolutionary goals

    Front (FSLN) rallied in the Plaza of the Revolution here on February 19 to mark the 61st anniversary of ... Renewal (MRS) under the leadership of former vice president Sergio Ram隆rez. In this context, the rally was ... the history of Nicaragua and his country. Both have suffered US invasions which installed brutal ...

  5. News briefs

    rallied on February 5 in Garema Place to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day. They demanded a referendum in ... February 3, the Hobart International Women's Day rally-organising collective decided to make ... and the average time children are detained is 619 days. Ozdowski also spoke about the impact of ...

  6. SCOTLAND: Socialists set sights on seven new MPs

    anti-war rally in Glasgow on February 15 and received a mighty ovation. On the first day of the SSP ... amount of work over the course of the two-day conference. They adopted a stirring election manifesto and ... 1 if the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair supports an invasion of Iraq without UN ...

  7. IRAQ: US launches mass slaughter in Fallujah

    them to flee to Baghdad. Two days before the full-scale US assault began, US warplanes reduced the ... mass protests in Baghdad, including a three-day general strike. The mass protests forced Washington to ... only trauma-capable medical facility. The day after the US military's seizure of Fallujah General, ...

  8. Threats, pressure mount on Venezuela

    Tillerson 聽to Senator聽 Marco Rubio, have openly endorsed this. The calls for a聽 foreign invasion 聽have grown ... louder in recent days, with constant聽 military drills 聽and recent troop movements in Brazil and Colombia. ... Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Venezuela February 22, 2018 1170 A pro-government rally in Caracas, ...

  9. Peace requires justice 鈥 end the Gaza siege

    launched by Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad the previous day, a ceasefire between Israel and the ... a full-scale invasion of Gaza within 24 hours and has been conducting military exercises simulating invasions ... Hamas can hold all other Palestinian groups to the ceasefire. Addressing a campaign rally for the ...

  10. March in March launches mass resistance to Abbott's attacks

    organisers a day or two before the rallies in response to an Abbott attack. The overwhelming political ... Howard's spin doctors in the wake of the invasion of Iraq 鈥 that protests don't work. This protest ... feigned ignorance of the March in March 鈥 even though he had bagged it out the day before. His spin ...

  11. Action updates

    portrayed the history of East Timor since its invasion by Indonesia. The rally then marched to the nearby ... and asthma due to the 7000 extra cars per day that will use the freeway. Dubbed the ... Indonesia's invasion. CISLAC fiesta @9point = BRISBANE 鈥 Around 250 people packed into the Ukrainian Hall here ...

  12. Afghanistan war: Global oposition grows

    comments and have called rallies in Berlin in response to the recent bombings. The failure of troop ... called a national march to demand troops out of Afghanistan on October 24. In the US, a national day of ... for Peace and Justice for October 7 and mark the eight anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. ...

  13. Aboriginal workers demand jobs with justice

    compelled to do under 鈥淲ork for the dole鈥 schemes. Eighty rallied on June 2 outside state parliament house ... the NT intervention has taken people back to the ration days. Gurindji elder Kathy Mills said the ... intervention, supposedly introduced to stop child abuse and neglect, was 鈥渁n invasion of laws, a tool of ...

  14. People power can beat racism

    protests. I was proud to be able to chair the rally of 500 people in Melbourne this year on Invasion Day ... that has forced the Queensland Labor government to back down. This year on Invasion Day, January 26, ...

  15. UNITED STATES: Students organise against war

    day of action聰 in New York City, with the theme 聯Not in our name聰. The rally took over NYC's ... crowd. Others came up from universities in Lexington, Kentucky. 聯The day of the march, a group of ... part of the 聯national day of student action for peace聰, in which around 150 university campuses took ...

  16. Huge police raid evicts Brisbane Aboriginal Embassy

    invasion took place four days later, as embassy supporters gathered to defend the site. Embassy negotiator ... and arrested about 30. More than 100 protesters outside the wire fence surrounding the park rallied in ... organisers about co-existence of the festival and the embassy for those two days, but to no avail. The police ...

  17. Venezuela, Cuba reject US 'terror' label

    addressing a May Day rally the day after the report's release, Chavez said: "A new report by the ... included "the campaign of terror that preceded and followed the [US-organised 1961] mercenary invasion ...

  18. No war on Iraq!

    Turkey to support a US invasion of Iraq. Scott Ritter, a former senior United Nations weapons inspectors ... average of 200 per day). The world's greatest stockpile of 聯weapons of mass destruction聰 in fact lies ... possible peaceful protest rallies in cities around Australia on November 3, on the eve of US congressional ...

  19. Growing opposition to Sky-Rail plan

    included a "Clean Up The Range Day", marches and rallies of up to 300 people in Cairns and ... public land, destruction of World Heritage listed rainforest and white invasion of Aboriginal land. The ... Sky-Rail's stations. Environment groups across Australia are taking up the campaign, and a national day of ...

  20. Afghans rebel against decade of pointless slaughter

    the 10th anniversary the next day of the US-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. For three ... Imperialism & war Tony Iltis Crowds burned a US flag in Kabul on October 6 at a rally to mark ... occupation鈥檚 anniversary, she said: 鈥淚 hope Afghanistan one day will see a glorious uprising like in the Middle ...

  21. Why the US imperialists hate socialist Cuba

    Castro Ruz to a rally of 1 million people in Havana's Jose Marti Revolution Square on May 1, 2003.] ... a day like today, this glorious international workers' day, which commemorates the death of the ... Cuban nation. In less than 72 hours, fighting ceaselessly, day and night, Cuba crushed the [1961] Bay of ...

  22. Max Brenner 19 defiant on support for Palestine as court case starts

    Apartheid state of Israel. We note that today and in the days to follow, strikes and mass rallies are being ... application and their limits, may be tested over the coming days. In particular, in this court, what will be ... tested is the legality of actions taken on July 1 2011. On that evening, at one of a series of rallies ...

  23. Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the editor Women's day Happy Women's Day, health minister Abbott. Just ... invasion of Afghanistan after the attacks on New York and Washington was supposedly to close al Qaeda bases ... obstruct such anti-al-Qaeda operations. However, soon after the invasion, we started to hear of the ...

  24. Stop work to stop the war!

    the ACTU were to organise a general strike in conjunction with a national day of anti-war rallies ... GTLC-called lunchtime rallies on the day after the war begins. With the current level of opposition to the ... anti-war demonstration called by CGIL on that day in Milan. At its March 6-7 meeting in Athens, the ...

  25. A new tide in the Aboriginal rights movement

    麻豆传媒 Sam Watson The second national day of action against the WA government鈥檚 policy of ... right to march during the dark days of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government, and more recently campaigned ... numbers for protests and rallies. What do you say about Abbott's offensive comments about so-called ...

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