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Higher Learning Starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Jennifer Connelly and Ice Cube Written and directed by John Singleton Screening at Hoyts cinemas Reviewed by Sean Moysey The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City on April 18
By Tully Bates and Felicity Whitworth MELBOURNE — The Victorian government has invested over $1 million in an advertising campaign which promotes the economic and social benefits of a Grand Prix in Albert Park. This amounts to a campaign of
By John Lindsay-Poland The US military revealed for the first time on March 9 which US bases in Panama it plans to consider keeping beyond the year 2000, when the Carter-Torrijos Treaties mandate their withdrawal. In hearings convened by
By Eddy Jokovich The war in Bosnia-Hercegovina has now passed its third year. It has been three years of a public and inept display of international conflict resolution and mediation by the "great" powers and the organisations that purport to
By Josh Heuchan Education was made "free" in the 1970s because an increase in participation rates was critical to the continued expansion of capitalism. There was considerable structural change in the economy, with a transfer from more
Protest against human rights violations By Michael Tardif SYDNEY — More than 100 people gathered outside the Global Cultural Diversity Conference on April 28 to protest against continued human rights violations in East Timor, Bougainville
Left wins Italian regional vote By Robynne Murphy ROME — On April 24, the first day after the regional elections in 15 regions out of 20 in Italy, the headlines of the communist journal Liberazione read: "The French teach: the left wins
Trading off basic needs In June 1993 the Keating government reduced a "safety net" wage rise being negotiated with the ACTU by $4 a week. This wage rise had earlier been agreed in Accord Mark 7, before the 1993 election. The pay-off for the
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Workers at Mount Isa Mines struck for 24 hours on April 24 in a continuing bid to win pay and other demands, and prepared to cut power to the giant MIM mine. The Mt Isa combined union disputes committee has
SARAH STEPHEN, who was recently in Scotland, spoke to TOMMY SHERIDAN, Scottish Militant Labour councillor, about Militant Labour and the progressive movement in Scotland. Could you give our readers a bit of background on your organisation and