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1. Kellie Tranter: 'Assange and Manning remind us we have a right to know'

   below at a July 16 rally in Sydney organised by the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition. * * * I’d ... I sincerely thank you for coming. How fortuitous that this very day the NSW ALP are debating and developing ... pool resources, to continue to rally, to speak out publicly and online, to educate others, to build ...

2. Pakistan: Musharraf struggles to hold on

   murder. Bhutto was shot as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi, by a gunman who immediately ... afterwards blew himself up. Her killing provoked a general strike that shut the country down for five days ... terror". While Pakistan was used as a platform for the invasion of Afghanistan, the US allowed Musharraf ...

3. Venezuela's revolution accelerates

   billboards carried the slogan that summarised what had occurred on those fateful days: "Every 11 has its ... days, detailing the events surrounding the coup and subsequent uprising. On the streets, everyone was ... remembering what it was that they did during those days. It was impossible to miss the upbeat feeling among ...

4. John Pilger: A world war has begun-- break the silence

   day for twelve years. Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange ... headline: "You, too, can have a bikini body." A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had ... campaign against China. Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of ...

5. Write on: Letters to the editor

   pillage of an ancient landscape and culture. The invasion is continuing at an annual rate of 100,000 ... migrants, so surely Lisa Macdonald is not advocating a continuation of this brazen invasion by stealth to ... a long time member of the Non Smoker's Movement of Australia, I attended a rally outside Parliament ...

6. After Paris attacks: Less freedom, more war?

   only does this ignore the far greater violence of the West ―the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, for ... ― the Left Party and the French Communist Party ― called on supporters to attend the rally, but to “keep ... sneaking through more austerity measures. On the day, the politics of the march were mixed. On the one hand ...

7. The rise and fall of the Pankhursts

   Union (WSPU) in 1903. The Pankhursts spoke tirelessly at rallies, in village greens, on street corners ... workers alike. Adela hit a police officer's hand and got seven days' jail. The use of mounted ... became Liberal prime minister. A Hyde Park suffrage rally of 250,000 men and women in 1908 was ignored. ...

8. UNITED STATES: How the Bush gang seized the 'opportunity' of 9/11

   the attacks. In the days that followed September 11, 2001, the US rulers immediately recognised that ... overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq from "day one". He reported that at the first ... National Security Council meeting, 10 days after Bush's inauguration in January 2001, the ousting of ...

9. Letter from the US: Democrats 'no progressive alternative'

   Imperialism & war Economy Barry Sheppard The election rallies of the mis-named “conventions” ... foreign policy, there is no difference except some rhetoric. Both parties supported the invasions of ... which sounded to me, watching on TV, like it didn’t carry the day. This reassertion of Jerusalem as the ...

10. Pakistan: Workers and peasants resist fundamentalists and elite

    However, the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan created a contradiction. The US was Pakistan's major ... reinstatement of the sacked unionists. The LPP's May Day statement said: "The answer of Pakistani ... speaking at a 20,000 strong rally at the Okara Military Farms on April 17, LPP spokesperson Farooq Tariq ...

11. Palesine: Behind the Mecca Accord

    Arabia, was signed after a two-day emergency meeting in Mecca. Under the agreement, Hamas leader and ... wrote, "We Palestinians have been victims of invasion, occupation and oppression for almost ... past month, dozens of rallies and marches have been held in the Occupied Territories calling for an end ...

12. Pakistan: People challenge US-backed dictator

    Pakistani military and the Taliban and al Qaeda. The US used Pakistan as a base for its invasion of ... heavily armed soldiers to prevent her from staging a planned rally in Rawalpindi. She was released the ... following day. [See eyewitness account of the democracy movement by Farooq Tariq on page 20.] Pakistan ...

13. Arundhati Roy's blaze of light

    Barsamian, explore several themes about life for the mass of the world's people under modern-day ... independent, intellectual feminism. It's a pleasure to read how she rallies her fellow women, especially ... Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. This sort of perspective undoubtedly places her on the radical wing of the ...

14. DSP recommits to building the Socialist Alliance

    an organised socialist presence since the days of the Communist Party — Armidale, the Gold Coast, the ... third anniversary of the invasion in March. Building big anti-war protests when British Prime Minister ... congress rally, DSP members pledged a record $103,165 towards a $250,000 �鶹��ý Weekly fighting fund ...

15. Oz and East Timor musicians get together

    Indonesian poems every day. However, the young in East Timor are determined continue to assert their right to ... has now been destroyed. During the troubled period prior to Indonesia's invasion, Abrantes ... poets, Francisco Borja da Costa, and it was used as a rallying call during the early years of political ...

16. IRAQ: Media's "civil war" talk conceals colonial war

    and Shias joined a mass rally that day, carrying Iraqi flags and chanting "No to America!" ... to protect Sunni mosques. Later that day, Sadr read a message from the Iranian holy city of Qum on ... The next day, Reuters reported that in Baghdad, "20,000 of Sadr's followers called for ...

17. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    places, which we are permitted to enter on any day, except the day George Bush came to Australia. Are we ... the 53rd state of the USA? We found ourselves in Canberra on this day, involved in a peaceful protest ... on the front lawns of parliament. After rallying at parliament house the protest organisers ...

18. BRAZIL: Thousands attend World Social Forum

    of Lula, the historical leader of the country's Workers Party (PT), was more election rally than ... took part in an MST-organised invasion of an experimental agricultural farm near Porto Alegre, where ... book-burning. When Bove's entry permit was cancelled on the last day of the forum, there was much ...

19. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    prior to the invasion, the pro-Saddam rallies didn't mean a great deal either. The Iraqi people are ... invasion of Iraq. "It is important to criticise the Sharon government's actions, but blaming ... ordinary Israelis with defence of Israel itself: "Anti-Israel posters at rallies, and the �鶹��ý ...

20. Israel: victim or aggressor?

    occupying forces since the 1982 Israeli invasion, Tel Aviv's key goal today is to destroy this ... relationship was 1967, when Israel swiftly defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War. ... in the Six-Day War. This state of permanent war and the neo-colonial politics underlying the Zionist ...

21. Ukraine: Outside powers exploiting ethnic nationalisms

    sovereignty. The referendum was called at just 10 days notice. Pro-Russia rallies were organised by the new ... authorities while pro-Kiev rallies were attacked. Western rhetoric This took place to a chorus of hypocritical ... Russian invasion in 1783 and 1939, Russian and Ukrainian settlement, periodic ethnic cleansing under ...

22. Cuba celebrates strength and looks ahead

    the Cuban Revolution, through assassination, invasion, terrorism, chemical and biological warfare, and ... 11 million inhabitants of Cuba again celebrated their freedom, with parties and small rallies across ... damaged and some crops were lost. On July 26, foregoing the traditional mass rally, Cuban President Fidel ...

23. ITALY: From the Multitudes of Europe

    so we called the Czech people to arms. We drove back all invasions, counterattacked and entered ... be a brother to each other, possessing no more than his neighbour". We arrived on the day of St. ... And yet Poor Konrad still revolts. We are the peasants of Hungary who rallied for the crusade against ...

24. Imperialist hostility, ethnic chauvinism fuel Congo imbroglio

    Within days, the main cities in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu — Goma, Bukavu and ... Ugandan invasion", as is asserted by Kabila and his cronies, the western press and the DRC's ... have rallied to the cause. Its military commanders include the sacked Congolese army chief, James ...

25. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

    Australian Labor Party leadership went to water as soon as the invasion of Iraq began. Labor federal ... US-British-Australian invasion army occupies Baghdad, a new quandary for the ALP is opening up. Crean is positioning ... rally were recently beaten up by 30 protesters. Left-wing Jews are not surprised, given the increasing ...

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