At least one-third of all women have been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in their lifetime.
More than 60 million women are "missing" from the world today due to sex-selective abortions and female infanticide.
Every year, millions of women
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Elizabeth Schulte, Chicago
Call him the "me too" candidate. Republican President George Bush is for a stronger military. Democratic Party challenger John Kerry says "me too". Bush shredded civil liberties with the USAPATRIOT Act. Kerry says "me
REVIEW BY EVA CHENG
China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class StruggleBy Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul BurkettMonthly Review July-August 2004130 pages
Is China today still socialist, or has it turned capitalist? This is a nagging question
Jonathan Strauss, Sydney
Discussion at the Marrickville Socialist Alliance's July 25 Politics in the Pub probed the significance of the demand for same-sex marriage rights.
Rodney Croome, a spokesperson for the Equal Rights Network, and Bernard
Graham Milner, Perth
The crisis in mental health care in Western Australia has reached severe proportions. There are now rumours that the state government is preparing a new funding package for the sector without community consultation.
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Federico Fuentes
Toronto student Daniel Freeman-Maloy is finally able to return to his studies after York University dropped its bid to ban him for three years for taking part in political protests.
Freeman-Maloy is an active member of Solidarity
The feminist struggle against the oppression of women has expressed itself in a commitment to gender equality — to winning equal rights for women, to gaining more access for women to jobs, to equal pay and to ending violence by men against women.
Sue Bolton
The expulsion from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union on July 21 of former Victorian state secretary Craig Johnston is totally unjustified and violates all union principle.
By this act, AMWU national secretary Doug Cameron and
Roberto Jorquera
A new opinion poll, conducted on July 15-22 by the US opinion research firm Evans McDonough Company (EMC), indicates that Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's radical left-wing president, could win the August 15 recall referendum with a
I originally come from what is now a developing nation. Malaysia introduced me to racism in school, where three races were pitched against each other and race was used to politically organise people into voting blocks.
Travelling to Britain to do a
PERTH — PM John Howard came to Perth's working-class eastern suburbs on July 29 to campaign in the marginal Labor seat of Hasluck. He was met by a crowd of 100 protesters as he entered Midland Town Hall.
"The crowd represented a fair cross
Rachel Evans, Sydney
On July 25, at least 250 people rallied at Sydney Town Hall to protest bipartisan support for amendments to the federal Marriage Act 1961 that would outlaw same-sex marriage.
Organised by Community Action Against Homophobia
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