"I have arranged ... to increase the animosity between the Orangemen and the United Irish. Upon that animosity depends the safety of the centre counties of the North." — British General Charles
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Only hours before the Irish Republican Army announced an "unconditional and open-ended cease-fire" on August 31, to take effect the following day, pro-British loyalist death squads declared that such an initiative would lead
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'Time to go'Time for Peace — Time to Go is an international broad-based campaign formed to mark the 25th anniversary of British troops in the north of Ireland. The campaign says that British withdrawal is central to
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"I think the [government-owned] Australian National Line [ANL] is a heartland issue for the Labor Party; there are no more serious people in the labour movement than the Maritime Union of Australia, and there is no-one I think
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Labour movement historySocial History of Australia Enterprises (SHAPE), based in Queensland, and Leftpress are selling bonds to finance the reprinting of Dawn To Dusk — Reminiscences of a Rebel by Ernie Lane.
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On January 16, despite a last minute back-down by the French government and a wet, cold winter's day, an estimated 1 million people poured into the streets of Paris to support public education. Thousands more missed out on the
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Usually municipal elections don't capture much international attention. However, after the three-year Italian corruption scandal in which more than 2000 politicians and industrialists are under investigation, there was some
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"The same woodchip shadow from Daishowa in the NSW south-east forests is creeping further and further north. It is now threatening the integrity of parts of the Deua wilderness near Cooma. There seems to be an insatiable
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gays in the US overwhelmingly supported Bill Clinton in last November's presidential election, largely because of his promise to end the official ban on homosexuals in the military. As
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"It is ironic in this year of 'Europe Without Frontiers' that Britain's imposed border still remains. The Partition Act — the Government of Ireland Act — is obviously not a solution. Since its creation 70 years ago, the
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The past year has been a bad one for the Catholic Church hierarchy. In the Catholic heartlands, in so far as there are any these days, popular support for the "moral fads" which Pope John Paul II attacks in his new encyclical
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TOKYO — In the 12 months preceding the July 18 election, public confidence in Japan's ruling political elite was shaken by revelations of high-level political corruption. "Money politics", as the corruption scandals have