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With the verdict handed down on January 31 by the judges presiding over the trial of the two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the conditions imposed by the United Nations Security Council for the
BY JIM GREEN Government delegates from 99 countries met in Shanghai, China, from January 17-20 to finalise and unanimously approve a report on climate change science, which presents new and deeper evidence of the human impact on the world's weather
BY ISAM AL-KHAFAJI When Turkey sent 10,000 soldiers into northern Iraq in late December, the event passed almost unnoticed by the international media. Turkish incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan have become routine. As on previous occasions, Turkish
BY ALISON DELLIT January 1 marked the formal end of the 10-year process of "reconciliation" between black and white Australians set up in 1991 by the Hawke Labor government. This process, Labor argued, would address the past injustices inflicted on
Fools of the world, unite! Each year, we here at Life of Riley Enterprises like to let our hair down and sponsor a Festival of Fools. Fools' fests go back for yonks. It was traditionally the one day of the year
Adelaide: Feb 17, noon-2pm. Women's Studies Resource Centre, 64 Pennington Tce, Nth Adelaide. Ph 8231 6982. Brisbane: International Women's Day Collective meeting. Mon Feb 12, 6.30pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. All women welcome. Ph 3831
Write on: letters to the editor Capitalist racketeers On January 18 in the Brisbane Federal Court, a fire protection company was fined five million dollars with $200,000 costs for price fixing with 7 other firms including James Hardie
PORTO ALEGRE — The World Social Forum was awash with debates. Lack of space prevents anything like a full account of these (some of which will be covered in future issues of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly), but among the most important were: The state of the
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF DARWIN — Twenty spirited demonstrators chanted "Deport Ruddock, not the refugees" in protest at an appearance by the minister for immigration at a meeting here on February 1. The meeting, attended by 100 people, was part of
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON PERTH — As the February 10 state election looms, the major parties are whipping up hysteria over Western Australia's non-existent "crime wave". The Liberals, the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats are competing to
Bosnia, Kosova and the West — The Yugoslav tragedy: a Marxist viewBy Mike KaradjisResistance Books, 2000251pp, $24.97 (pb) BY JUSTIN RANDELL Many articles and books have been written, from all points of the political spectrum, that attempt to
BY SEAN HEALY After a year-long, increasingly desperate search, the World Trade Organisation's general council has finally confirmed the venue for its next ministerial summit: the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. WTO bureaucrats and rich country