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Hawree Latif was killed on July 14 when forces from the ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) attacked the offices of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI) in Suleimaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan. On October 27, Hawree's brother, Aram Latif, was
BY JEREMY SMITH BALLARAT — The largest union meetings in the history of the University of Ballarat have supported a proposal for a campaign of industrial action. Meetings at the School of Mines and the Mt Helen campus on November 2 brought
The current intifada in Palestine against Israeli occupation is clarifying United States policy towards the Middle East for those who thought President Bill Clinton was acting as a non-partisan mediator. Washington is 100% behind the Israeli state
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS SYDNEY — The 70 people who attended a seminar entitled "The Communist Party of Australia: Lessons for the 21st Century" on October 22 agreed that an anti-capitalist movement can be built: the September 11-13 (S11) protests in
The measure of success What is the measure of a successful internet company? Some would say vision — the ability to bravely present the future in a world struggling with the present. Others would suggest flair — having a style that
Companies operating in the oil and natural gas rich Timor Gap include some of the largest multinational and Australian-based energy corporations. Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, US-based Phillips Petroleum and Australian players such as Woodside Energy and
MELBOURNE — Premier Steve Bracks and the commanders of the Victoria Police are under heavy fire for their backing of violent assaults on peaceful S11 protesters during the September 11-13 blockade of the World Economic Forum's summit in the Crown
BY MATTHEW DAVIS As risk factors — like unemployment, poverty and homelessness — rise, so too does the prevalence of heroin use. In Western Australia, official 1997 figures estimate that there are between 43,200 and 57,600 active heroin
While BHP's proclaims that "prevention is better than cure", the company is pressing ahead with investigations into dumping in the ocean wastes from the proposed Gag Island nickel project, 150 kilometres west of West Papua in Indonesia. In 1996,
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS The ouster of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's regime was the result of two overlapping events. The first was a rearrangement of power within the ruling elite, replacing a tainted Milosevic with Vojislav Kostunica,
The following appeal was made by Rahman Hoseinzadeh, secretary of the Kurdistan Worker-Communist Party of Iran, on November 1. Mahmood Salehi, president of the Bakers' Syndicate in the city of Saqez, Kurdistan in Iran, was arrested for the second
S11 activist, Marcus Brumer who cream-pied the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks last week is facing five charges after being arrested at his Upwey home on October 31. He was taken by two members of the Protective Security Intelligence Group to the