World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Australia's Guantanamo

01-08-2006 22:54 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Have the 13 Muslim men arrested under Australia's new anti-terror laws been subjected to Guantanamo Bay-style conditions? It's an allegation being made by Civil Rights Defence

Talk Tank 29 July - Scan Dot Org 30 July mp3

31-07-2006 20:46 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Talk Tank - length: 59 mins. mono 14 B Scan Dot Org - length: 30 mins. stereo 27.6 MB
Talk Tank - Weekly News Commentary - 29 July 06

AUSTRALIA: NSW Talk Tank - length: 59 mins. mono 14 B Scan Dot Org - length: 30 mins. stereo 27.6 MB Talk Tank - Weekly News Commentary - 29 July 06

Irish Political Status Coalition Launched

31-07-2006 16:35 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Support Irish Republican Prisoners fighting for their right to be treated as Political Prisoners for their Political Actions and the right of 6 Republican Prisoners to be Repatriated from English Jiails as is their right. "Support All Republican Prisoners"

Melbourne 30 July - Rally for Peace - Stop Israeli aggression

For the third week, Melbourne's Lebanese and Palestinian organisations, along with supporters from across the community, rallied to demand an end to Israeli aggression and demand an immediate ceasefire.

Internationals in Beirut-Antiwar demonstration

press release of the International Civil Mission

FILIPINAS EVERYWHERE

29-07-2006 06:18 | Globalisation | Migration | Social Struggles | World

In the context of the profound economic and political crisis in the Philippines today, what could be the significance of celebrating the one-hundred-year anniversary of the coming of Filipino contract labor to Hawaii? Are Filipinos the new compradors for the militarist U.S. Empire? Or are they harbingers of a new generation of combatants from the oppressed communities, from the internal colonies of the metropoles? At the turn of the last century, the revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg elegized the plight of the subjugated natives in "las islas filipinas." Today, U.S. Special Forces are back to reconquer the neocolony, with the natives no longer smiling, now up in arms, united with people of color in Mexico, Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Hawaii, Nepal, and other battlefronts of our beleaguered planet. Whither the emerging Filipino diaspora?

SHIN BET VETOED SECRET ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE AGREEMENT

28-07-2006 13:29 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Israeli and Palestinian Sources Concur: Israel Made War Inevitable

NSW Corrective Services Legislation Amendment Bill

28-07-2006 02:16 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

General Purposes Standing Committee #3

pied pipers of the Netherlands

27-07-2006 12:34 | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | World

First the childrens rights were taken. Then they began to round up the children of the Netherlands. Now the animals rights will be taken. These pied pipers have it backwards. This is not science fiction. This is the horrid true history of Holland unfolding right before your eyes and no one does anything to stop this regime. read the truth here.

'Born to Kill': Ivan Milat, the two biggest lies exposed

27-07-2006 12:25 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Many people would have seen the programme "Born to Kill" on Prime TV this week. Isn't it amazing that they think because Ivan Milat was convicted by a court, he must be guilty, but they don't accept that the inverse is true, ie, that he was found NOT guilty of attacking and raping two girls he picked up hitch hiking while on the way to Goulburn so therefore he WASN'T guilty. The story about the hitch hikers is often used as an example to 'prove' that Ivan Milat was inclined to do these kinds of things.

Five years of Mexico's internal 'war on terror'

Alejandro Cerezo is a Mexican human rights activist who was imprisoned on false charges of terrorism along with two brothers in 2001. He recently toured Europe to explain their case and the general human rights situation in Mexico in the run-up to the presidential elections. He talks about his case, the human rights situation and the prospects of change following the elections in Mexico.

Guantanamo trials illegal

27-07-2006 07:07 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The US Supreme Court has ruled the special Guantanamo trials illegal. An acceptable solution from the Americans is likely years away and our Government has run out of excuses not to act. Nearly 40,000 Australians have put their name to the Open Letter calling for David Hicks to be repatriated. I hope you'll join us now by clicking on the link: www.getup.org.au/campaign/DefendAustralianRights

Against the generalised chaos in the Middle East

solidarity to middle east

Anti-Asbestos campaigners to 'go bananas' against Countryside Properties PLC

26-07-2006 01:19 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Wednesday 26th July:

Anti-Asbestos campaigners are to ‘go bananas’ this evening outside Rochdale Town Hall from 5.45pm – 6.15pm.

Strict council rules ban placards and banners inside the Town Hall so the campaigners hope to get their point across with Fairtrade soft fruit.

They say the planning system is ‘bananas’ where local council taxpayers have to pay up to £80,000 for a report that heavily criticises the past actions of property speculators who wish to build a £100 million development with a planning fee of just £5500.

Fascism in Sydney courts

26-07-2006 00:13 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

D for DEMOCRACY DAY shattered all illusions of JUSTICE IN AUSTRALIA

Judges weigh 'Joseph Thomas's' appeal! Get your facts right!

25-07-2006 23:40 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

For buying a plane ticket and changing the date on his passport to get back home? What would she have imposed for stealing a passport?

An attack on democratic rights: New Zealand man jailed for sedition

25-07-2006 22:03 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In New Zealand as elsewhere, the threat of “terrorism” is being used to enact and enforce laws that establish the basis for sweeping attacks on civil liberties. The application of the charge of sedition to a protest stunt of this nature is a warning of the preparations that are being made to deal with the emergence of widespread resistance among ordinary working people to the accelerating onslaught on living standards, working conditions and basic rights.

Tearing down the US Embassy fence last Saturday

On Saturday the fence around the US Embassy was brought crashing down. Demonstrators from the Lebanon & Palestine solidarity demonstration, angry at the US support for Israel's attacks, shook the metal barriers until they came down.

RESISTANCE (July/Aug 2006) - anarchist bulletin from AF (Britain)

THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION'S agitational bulletin Resistance no.86 is out.
IN THIS ISSUE: Trade union strikes, John Reid new Home Secretary, Armchair cops, Left-wing in South America, Russia G8, ASDA depot action, Jerry Springer Opera, General Strike 1926, plus the usual activist's events diary, industrial frontline news. Read too PDF:

http://www.libcom.org/hosted/af/res/

UK Identity Card scheme - really finished? Let's make sure.

25-07-2006 11:31 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Labour's ID scheme is supposedly on the rocks, but let’s not be overly comforted by this news. There are good reasons to continue to build up the pressure. In particular, passport developments in the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the European Union could result in alternative identity databases, and since the Act is on the statute books, compulsory ID could start at any future date.

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