International workers conference
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — Twenty-five international guests and 110 Australian-resident workers attended a conference entitled "Workers Change the World" between September 29 and October 3.
The
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Solidarity theme of North-South dialogue
By Sean Healy
NEW DELHI — A round-table discussion on "North-South dialogue: youth perspectives" was held here September 22-23. Organised by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), the
After the Fall
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Elin O'Connell
New Theatre, Newtown (Sydney)
Friday-Sunday until November 13
Reviewed by Allen Myers
It's hard to find words sufficiently superlative to describe the New Theatre's After the
By Glenn Phillips
and Kevin Verkerk
The Wilderness Society has concluded a peaceful blockade of forestry operations in compartment 1402 of the Nalbaugh State Forest. The blockade followed a denial by State Forests Inc (formerly the Forestry
The view from Tralfamadore
Fates Worse Than Death — An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s
By Kurt Vonnegut
Vintage, 1992. 240 pp. $12.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Once upon a time artists were people; that is, they were for the
Youth Cultural Dissent
By Taryne Laffar
PERTH — For a young person, trying to escape the mainstream culture thrust upon us, is difficult. Now Cultural Dissent has given us a chance to express our own music, literature, poetry, film and
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — "Anglo American are telling the outside world that there is no apartheid in their company, and that they are opposed to the apartheid system. That is not true. There is a lot of apartheid in this company."
By Tony Iltis and Kristian Whittaker
CANBERRA — More than 600 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders arrived at Boomanulla Oval in south Canberra on September 26 for a three-day conference aimed at formulating a national response to the High
Drumming
For my Australian readers' benefit "drumming" is the word I will use in place of the word campaigning. I am trying to drum up support for men of colour all over the world, and in particular for the much maligned African-American man.
By Sean Malloy
The United States is deploying further troops and armour to Somalia after 12 US troops were killed, and at least one captured, in its October 3-4 attack on Hawiye clan leader, Mohammed Aideed. The attack killed an estimated 500