By Jill Hickson International Women's Day was started by women in the socialist movement. From the 1890s, the women's suffrage movement was influenced and built by women who were members of parties belonging to the Socialist (Second) International.
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SYDNEY — The Nambundah Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture has begun. For a short season only, until March 17, Belvoir Street Theatre will host The 7 Stages of Grieving — a contemporary indigenous performance by
John Howard, the Liberals and the big business media are of course claiming that the Coalition's big election victory is a "mandate" for the policies they plan to implement. That's a lie. There is no mandate. There's no mandate for Howard's policies
R.I.P. "In Rupert Murdoch and Ken Cowley we have two men beside us we trust with our lives." — Fax to media organisations from Canberra Raider players aligned with Murdoch's would-be Super League. Of others? "The number one champion of nuclear
The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) has reported that Milton Dabibi, general secretary of the ICEM-affiliated Nigerian oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, has been arrested in Lagos and is being
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Coal miners in Ukraine returned to work on February 16 after one of the hardest-fought strikes in the former Soviet republic in recent years. The resumption of work followed an agreement by the government to negotiate
ANC minister calls for limits on human rights A senior member of the ANC-led government of national unity, justice minister Dullah Omar, has called for key sections of South Africa's current interim constitution that protect individual rights to be
Because ... BECAUSE our work is never done and underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get the sack and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get bashed we must
By Marcus Greville A public rally is being organised by the Aboriginal History Committee (AHC) on March 9 to protest against the planned demolition of the historically significant Cyprus-Hellene Club building, the site of the 1938 Day of Mourning
Women Travellers Accommodation DirectoryKaye Johnston & Andrea LofthouseA Moonraker Productions publication, 1995P.O. Box 186, Berry, NSW 253588 pp., $9.95 postage paid in AustraliaReviewed by Kath Gelber This project began when Johnston and
By Christopher Kennedy The project is, from an environmental point of view, frightening. In a cluttered back room the reader, an environmentalist, tries to wade through the huge pile of engineering data in the environmental impact statement. The
Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of FeminismEdited by Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth ProbynRoutledge, 1995. 303 pp., $36.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Sexy Bodies is a collection of 15 essays. Each crosses a wide variety of disciplinary streams,
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