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By Bill Mason BRISBANE - Meetings of members of the Public Sector Union in the Department of Social Security here have voted to impose additional half-day office closures as an expression of "deep concern" over funding cuts to salary budgets and
Chaos A.D. Sepultra Roadrunner Records Reviewed by Kest It sounds like the herald proclaiming the end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra have made a record of utter desolation and anger. They
Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary By Bernard Smith Oxford University Press Australia, 1993. 568 pp., $59.95 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon "Knock them off their feet with truth and reality", wrote an artist friend of Noel Counihan
By Mary Merkenich BOCHUM - A 17-year-old pupil in Aurich, in the state of Niedersachsen, has had to go into hiding and receive police protection after neo-Nazis terrorised him and his family. This pupil is among 250 German citizens who, because
Happy New Year! 1994, the United Nations International Year of the Family. Isn't it meant to make us feel all warm and gooey inside? Isn't that why special issues of a 50 cent coin and a $5 note are going to be produced? The family is being
The Long Journey: South Africa's quest for a negotiated settlement Edited by Steven Friedman Ravan Press, 1993. 206 pp., R66 Heroes or Villains? Youth politics in the 1980s By Jeremy Seekings Ravan Press, 1993. 108 pp., R44 Marabi
Viktor Ivancic, the chief editor of the well-known Croatian opposition satirical magazine Feral Tribune, was forcibly mobilised into the military on January 5. According to a statement by the editors of Feral Tribune, Ivancic received a call-up
By Jose Gutierrez Some years ago social psychologist Ignacio Martin Baro wrote that in El Salvador government officials had imposed an "institutionalised lie" upon society, which he defined in general terms as "the systematic screening of

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