KIRKUK — Workers here commemorated May Day for the first time in three decades with a rally held in the garden of the North Oil Company, the northern division of Iraq's state-owned oil industry. The evening rally was attended by 3000 Iraqi Arabs,
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BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY — At a public meeting on May 8, representatives of the Greens, the Democrats and the ALP confirmed that their parties would block further plans to deregulate higher education through education minister Brendan
BY MARY MERKENICH
As thousands of high school students walked out of class to oppose the war on Iraq, radio "shock jocks" condemned left-wing teachers and their unions for "imposing" their opposition to the war in Iraq on young students.
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"We're explaining the situation to residents in an easy-to-understand way." — A public relations official of the Tokyo Electric Power company, after the company took all its nuclear reactors off line for testing on April 15
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — On May 3, 30 people picketed the Manly office of federal MP Tony Abbott to protest against the Howard government's May 13 war budget.
Socialist Alliance speaker Anne Picot explained that the Howard government has set
BY ARUN PRADHAN
"[Computer] games are potentially the most subversive media forms of our time", Kipper, the initiator of Escape from Woomera, told Green Left Weekly. Drawing on first-hand testimonies, media reports and government documents, this
BY KATYA GOODALL
European left organisations are planning a mass demonstration against the European Union summit, scheduled for June 20-22 in Greece.
The venue, 100 kilometres from Thessalonika, was chosen by the Greek government in an attempt to
BY DOUG LORIMER
Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style
BY MATTHEW PRESTON& SARAH PEART
GLASGOW — "Now we're going to take the street struggle into the parliament", said Frances Curran, newly elected Scottish Socialist Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), neatly summing up the significance
BY DALE McKINLEY
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress (ANC) government has just introduced an "anti-terrorism bill" in South Africa's parliament. If it is passed, it will in effect define the growing struggles of workers and the poor
BY DALE MILLS
Britain's top cop has found that the country's security forces passed intelligence to loyalist terrorists in Northern Ireland, which allowed them to kill republicans. This had long been suspected by republican activists, but this is
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In many parts of Iraq, US-imposed "regime change" is bearing more than a passing resemblance to Iraq's former government. The May 7 Washington Post revealed that Baath Party members have been given senior roles in ministries
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