GLW issue 75, published 1992-10-14.

Russian Party of Labour makes an impact

The Party of Labour, Russia's best-known "new left" formation, is holding its official founding conference on October 9 and 10. IRINA GLUSHCHENKO reports from Moscow on the impact the party has already made. An organising committee for the

Putting art back into performance

By Karen Fredericks SYDNEY — "So much of theatre today is about entertainment, rather than art and ideas", says Don Mamouney, artistic director of the Sidetrack Theatre Company. To help overcome such stagnation, the company's Performance Week

Conference debates populationism

Conference debates populationism By Ross Davidson The questions of population and immigration are contentious ones in the broad green movement. So it was not surprising that they should feature on the agenda at the Ecopolitics VI conference

Like the pound

Like the pound "Whatever he puts forward now in the way of economic policy won't be worth the paper it's written on." — A British economist discussing Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont's future prospects in the capitalist new world

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Australian News

Abortion campaign launched

By Leslie Warne WOLLONGONG — The Wollongong Abortion Rights Campaign was officially launched here on October 1, Abortion Rights Day. Fifty people attended a candlelight vigil, which heard from WARC's Jill Hickson and the Uniting Church's

WA teachers in the mood for change

WA teachers in the mood for change By Ian Bolas PERTH — Delegates at the annual conference of the WA Teachers' Union on September 29-October 1 overwhelmingly endorsed an agenda of change. This was the outcome of a campaign by rank and file

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International News

US nuclear moratorium

US nuclear moratorium US President George Bush on October 2 signed into law legislation that requires an immediate nine-month halt to nuclear weapons testing. The act mandates that the president submit a schedule for nuclear test ban talks with

Mining disaster

Mining disaster By Frank Noakes LONDON — The British government will officially announce a plan, already leaked, to close 30 of the remaining deep mined coal pits here, from October 12. Twenty will close immediately, costing 20,000

Further International News

Editorial

'Remembering' Vietnam

'Remembering' Vietnam Seventeen years after the April 30, 1975, liberation of Saigon, the world's first "television war" is again dominating the screens. This time the effect is to produce a new history of the first colonial war that the US and

Cultural Dissent

The murder that stays with us

The murder that stays with us Swoon Directed by Tom Kalin Starring Craig Chester and Dam Schlachet Valhalla Cinema, Glebe; Classic, Brisbane Reviewed by Tom Flanagan Based on the 1924 murder of a young boy by two Chicago youths, Swoon

Celtic feast

Sirocco, Alan Stivell and Dedannan Sydney Town Hall, October 6 Reviewed by Bernie Brian I had the opportunity to hear Alan Stivell and Dedannan play at an Irish pub in Paddington a week before their October 6 concert. The smell of the coal

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