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1. Afghanistan: US spy chief admits war going badly

   House National Secretary Council the day after al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, ... then-war secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney pushed for an invasion of Iraq as the ... "it would be far easier initially to rally the world behind the specific target of al Qaeda". In ...

2. UNITED STATES: America's right turn?

   percentage of people who say they pray every day didn't change either. The media's focus on the ... turned on the Iraq war — voting to authorise Bush's invasion, criticising it during the primaries, ... still would have voted to authorise an invasion, even knowing that there were no weapons of mass ...

3. Write on: letters to the editor

   International Socialist Organisation moved that the slogan for the next rally be "The Senate wont save ... us". They were supported in this by Socialist Alternative and Workers Power. The next day a Melbourne ... have no threat of invasion or imminent revolutionary overthrow of collapse of capitalism, I shall ...

4. Write On: Letters to �鶹��ý Weekly

   observers and designated rally marshals. Anyone interested in taking on this role for the day, which is ... Wednesday's rally, and as a pro-active move to support the students who are brave enough to continue to speak ... servicemen who put their lives on the line that day to save a small number of the massacre survivors, and who ...

5. PHILIPPINES: Peace Camp opposes Bush's 'second front'

   aims? Peace Camp has undertaken several mass actions, big rallies. In fact, we had one as early as ... The next major project was a three-day peace concert, to which we invited 60 rock bands, the hottest ... zone, in fact, a peace camp, and for three days it was like Woodstock. What was very political about ...

6. UNITED STATES: Elian's rescue a blow to 'Miami Mafia'

   raid in a speech to a previously scheduled rally in Cuba on the evening of the same day. The rally, to ... commemorate the 39th anniversary of the victory over the US-organized Bay of Pigs invasion, was held at the ... expected at the event, but with the day's news the crowd swelled to an estimated size of between ...

7. World-wide protests demand: 'Don't attack Iraq!'

   war". Three hundred rallied in Houston, Texas. A similar number rallied in Orange County, California. In ... Italy, part of a 2000-strong rally was tear-gassed by police; 2000 people protested in Florence. In ... with flowers rallied in Tokyo." Hundreds marched in India and 500 demonstrated in Lahore, ...

8. BRITAIN: Blair takes on the firefighters

   the public sector. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) finished an eight-day strike on November 29, which ... followed a two-day strike two weeks earlier. A further eight-day strike, scheduled to begin on December 4, ... summer with dozens of rallies and marches, around the slogan cribbed from an advertising campaign: ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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. ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. 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 ...

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