Workers employed by multinational giant Group 4 Securicor are strengthening their international links — and that is good news. This giant corporation was formed in 2004 through the merger of Group 4 Falck and Securicor. The conglomerate also incorporates the Florida-based Wakenhut Corporation, which counts the United States government as a major customer. Group 4… Read more »
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Escalation of the Abortion Wars: Why Capitalism Cannot let women control their own lives
Erin Mustain from Radical Women in the U.S. Spoke at a Melbourne rally for abortion rights in September 2004. Every month, a defence line is positioned outside East Melbourne’s Fertility Control Clinic to keep away the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, a vicious little group that marches up from a nearby Catholic church with their… Read more »
Kabul in Winter: the ravages of war and religious rule in Afghanistan
Kabul in Winter: Life without Peace in Afghanistan (Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006) hits hard in the gut while absorbing the mind. The book is a scathing indictment of U.S. policies that promoted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, used the plight of Afghan women to justify an unjust war, and finally… Read more »
War on dissent: anti-terrorism laws must be defeated
Fantasy becomes reality. The plot of the movie, Minority Report, was that crime was so out of control in a future world that people could be arrested as “pre-criminals.” Faheem Lohdi, a Pakistani-Australian and Muslim, is unjustly held in the psychological management unit at Goulburn jail. He had some maps, videos, DVDs and handwritten notes… Read more »
What immigrants need: amnesty, open borders, and a movement that won’t back down
The following article is a slightly revised version of a talk given by Eduardo Martínez Zapata at a Freedom Socialist Party May Day celebration and forum in Portland, Oregon on May 6, 2006. When I was nine years old, my family came to the United States because my parents had no other option as they… Read more »
Terminator Trio Defeated!
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity met in Brazil last March. On the agenda was terminator, or gene sterilisation, technology. Three governments — Australia, Canada and New Zealand — were dubbed the “Terminator Trio” when they teamed up to try and overturn a global moratorium on terminator technology, which prevents farmers saving and reusing seeds…. Read more »
Socialist Linda Averill moves women’s issues to the front of the bus in race for Seattle City Council
Seattle, the home of massive protests against the World Trade Organization and other neoliberal atrocities, this year offers a rare opportunity: voters can elect a genuine representative of working people to its City Council. Feminist and unionist Linda Averill, a city bus driver and former organizer of Seattle Radical Women, is running as a Freedom… Read more »
Reproductive rights advocate calls for a radical solution to the Bush blues
The following column is adapted from a speech given by Bernadette Logue for Radical Women at a post-election panel discussion held at Seattle Central Community College. Logue is one of the organizers of Seattle RW’s action in defense of reproductive rights on January 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision… Read more »
Ugly Americans: Abu Ghraib shakes U.S. complacency
When news broke in late April about American soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison, the U.S. public reacted with revulsion and dismay. The photographs and accounts of brutality, murder and gleeful sexual sadism were a jarring contradiction to the U.S. self-image as a people committed to fair play, decency, and democracy. In… Read more »
Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Disappeared in America
One of the most vicious aspects of the Bush Administration’s global war on working people is its unparalleled assault on immigrants. So far, the courts are giving their blessing to police-state measures against those who sought refuge in the “land of the free.” On June 17, for example, a District of Columbia Court of Appeals… Read more »
