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The wars & local soldiers, 1970

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 June 1970 · page 18

SERVICES: Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9-12 noon…

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Thant: State of War in Middle East

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 June 1970 · page 1

UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary General U Thant said in a report to the Security Council that a…

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Pro-war demo and fascism

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1970 · page 11

MALCOLM SALMON was correct in drawing attention to the disturbing Implications of the New York building…

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Resist... and Disrupt the War in Indo-china

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1970 · page 6

"ALTERNATIVE Service", yet another callous ruse by the Liberals to hide the true nature of conscription from the…

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Cops and soldiers

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1970 · page 11

AUSTRALIAN democracy is in danger! Last week to my surprise I saw military police directing traffic in the heart…

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Tom Barker: last of the self-taught socialists "LET those who own Australia do the fighting. Put the wealthiest in the front ranks the middle class next; follow these with politicians, lawyers sky pilots and judges. Answer the declaration of war with the call for a General Strike." -- Tom Barker in Direct Action, 1914

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1970 · page 6

TOM BARKER died on April 6 last in London. His death closes a chapter of Australian working class history because…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 June 1970 · page 18

SERVICES: Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9-12 noon…

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Us Facing "First War-time Slump"

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1970 · page 9

The US today is in the throes of "the first wartime recession in history", writes Victor Perlo, well-known US marxist economist, in a recent issue of the Communist Party of the USA paper, Daily World. Noting that unemployment had risen by 50 per cent (from [?]per cent when Nixon took office in January 1969 to 4.9…

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Israeli Film on War Widow

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 June 1970 · page 6

A new Israeli film, focusing on the problems besetting a young Israeli war widow whose husband fell in the…

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Bankstown and District War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 June 1970 · page 18

SERVICES: Fri., 6.30 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m. Classes: Sun., 9-12 noon…

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Nixon's complaint: pulling out of one war and into another

Tribune · Wednesday 8 July 1970 · page 9

PRESIDENT NIXON'S much-trumpeted withdrawal of US forces from Cambodia on June 30 does not mean that he ended a war. It means that he has…

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A Different Sort of 'Change Raid Demonstrators showed up company links with U.S. combines which feed on Indo-China war

Tribune · Wednesday 8 July 1970 · page 3

SYDNEY: Last Thursday's invasion of the main trading chamber of the Sydney Stock Exchange had a clear political aim: to focus attention on the existence in Australia of companies connected with American…

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New War Jet Nearly Ready

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 July 1970 · page 1

LONDON: Israel is making rapid progress with the construction of her own military jet, which will be a…

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MONASH-V.C.'S war effort

Tharunka · Wednesday 15 July 1970 · page 7

Nine of the students who occupied the Careers and Appointments office at Monash Monash University have been ordered to appear before a Disciplinary Committee on…

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The Road to War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 July 1970 · page 2

Now that the ‘electronic summer’ forecasted by General Moshe Dayan, is so much in evidence Washington is becoming more and more aware of the facts Israel has been warning about ever since the Six Day War (if not earlier),…

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Anti -War Demo in Saigon

Tharunka · Wednesday 22 July 1970 · page 2

A group of Australian and New Zealand students took part in an anti-war demonstration Saigon recently. The students were draft resisted, and spent seven days in South…

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Anti-war action in Saigon -- see p. 3

Tribune · Wednesday 22 July 1970 · page 1

PICTURES brought back to Australia from Saigon last week by Melbourne draft defiers Tony Dalton and Michael Hamel-Green show (left) Saigon students .displaying tear gas canisters (grenades) and projectiles captured from police during a demonstration for an end to the war, and (right) a Saigon police jeep captured and set alight by students. As a result of this first significant contact between Australian and Saigon anti-war fighters, the two young men have brought back a vivid account of the courageous struggle of anti-war fighters in the face of ferocious repression by the US-backed puppet regime of Thieu and Ky. They also tell…

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Anti- War Fighters From Far and Near Negro ex-GI tells of US movements

Tribune · Wednesday 22 July 1970 · page 4

US NEGRO anti-war activist and former GI Andrew Pulley, who is ah active member and former…

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How Terrorists Fight Their War

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 July 1970 · page 10

The recent attack on children near the Lebanese border was like the overwhelming majority of terror acts, directed at a clearly identifiable civilian target, with no question of…

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War Memorial President Attacks Beth Din & Kashruth Commission

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 July 1970 · page 3

A hard-hitting attack on the Kashrufh Commission and Sydney Beth Din was made by the president of the NSW Jewish War Memorial, Mr. Harry S. Goldstein. In bis annual report circulated this week, Mr. Goldstein…

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