By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — At 9.50am on Sunday, April 24, central Johannesburg was rocked by a massive car bomb aimed at the African National Congress's national and regional headquarters. The blast was clearly audible from Green Left
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Melbourne singer/songwriter Penelope Swayles, after blitzing the Adelaide Fringe Festival with the Melbourne Indi Women's Gang, is now on her first formal tour.
One of Australia's best new political musicians promises east coast dwellers
This week Green Left Weekly devotes eight pages to reports and analysis of the historic first democratic election in South Africa. The eight pages will give you background, history and interviews that you won't read anywhere else.
The victory of
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — With Northern Territory elections to be held later this year, the campaign against excessive military aircraft noise has become a hot issue for local politicians.
Recent meetings of the Aircraft Noise Abatement
Goss resists repealing abortion laws
By Susan Price
BRISBANE — In the recent review of the Criminal Code, initiated by attorney general Deane Wells to bring Queensland's laws "into the 21st century", sections which cover abortion were
Sweet Flowers of Perversity
Devised and directed by Rainsford
Universal Theatre, Fitzroy, until May 8
Reviewed by Sue Bolton
Sweet Flowers of Perversity is a Butoh-based production. Butoh originated in Japan following World War II as a
Green Left Weekly's NORM DIXON spoke to movement activists about their feelings as they cast their votes in the historic democratic elections.
Nombonisa Gasa, head of the ANC's Commission on the Emancipation of Women:
When I got my first
Half the machine?
A campaign to achieve parliamentary gender equity in the ALP was launched at a conference of Labor women in Perth last November. Since that time, women ALPers have been campaigning to pass resolutions requiring 40% of Labor
Intimidation and racism
By Brandon Astor Jones
At 10.10pm on March 31, William Henry Hance was pronounced dead, his scorched corpse still strapped to Georgia's electric chair. Hance was more than a little mentally impaired. Georgia law
Isn't prevention better than cure?
By Natascha Heuer
PERTH — During the first term of the school year, the Family Planning Association of Western Australia held a Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health (PASH) course, about sexuality and other
Youth wages create poverty, not jobs
By Nathan Brady
and Nikki Ulasowski
Currently, 20% of young full-time workers earn incomes below the poverty line, and most of the rest populate the lowest quarter of income recipients. The
The South African Communist Party is the best-known socialist party in the country, and much was made by the National Party of its alliance with the African National Congress and the presence of SACP members on the ANC's candidate lists. But the SACP
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