Mainstream Weeklyby Ben Saul
11 September 2020
An Afghan soldier convicted of murdering three Australian soldiers is among six high-value prisoners who have been flown to Qatar ahead of peace talks between the Taliban and Afghan government this weekend.
Hekmatullah has spent seven years in jail after killing the three soldiers he worked with in 2012 — Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate. He is one of the last remaining Taliban prisoners.
Both the Taliban and (…)
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From the Left Opposition in USSR: The “Professional Dangers” of Power | Christian Rakovsky (August 1928)
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(First published in Bulletin of the Opposition (Bulleten Oppozitsii), No. 6, 1929, pp. 14–20.
Another translation entitled Power and the Russian Workers, appeared in The New International, Vol. I No. 4, November 1934, pp. 105–109.
Transcribed and marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.)
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Dear Comrade Valentinov,
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