In the United States, it is customary to assess a president’s first 100 days in office, a tradition that goes back to the Great Depression. Fearing that the collapse of… Read more »
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Nellie Wong: Feminist revolutionary and poet to visit Australia
Australians are in for a treat this spring! Revolutionary feminist poet and organiser, Nellie Wong, will visit for five weeks. Nellie Wong, who currently resides in San Francisco, is a… Read more »
Big trouble for workers as crisis hits world’s largest economy
Forget the glitzy façade and look at the United States from an average person’s perspective. Setbacks, catastrophe, and ruin are hitting working people from every direction. The economy has been… Read more »
Military indoctrination: A factory for producing violence against women
A long-ignored aspect of Washington’s war machine is now getting sporadic attention in the U.S. mainstream media. This is the explosion of violence against women, both in war zones and… Read more »
Oppression and the State: How the courts, police and prisons keep big business safe
Thousands rallied at Melbourne’s Federation Square on 9 December 2006 to demand David Hicks be brought home. I recently heard ABC journalist, Leigh Sales, talking about her book, Detainee 002:… Read more »
Group 4 Securicor workers globalise resistance
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Kabul in Winter: the ravages of war and religious rule in Afghanistan
From 2007, review of an indictment of U.S. policies ending in the abandonment of Afghan women to the mullahs.
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… 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… Read more »
