CLAUDETTE BEGIN and ALEX CHIS are both members of the Committees of Correspondence, a 2000-strong socialist regroupment project in the US. In Australia for the Democratic Socialist Party's annual conference, they spoke to FRANK NOAKES and CATHERINE
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Playland
Written and directed by Athol Fugard
With John Kani and Sean Taylor
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Reviewed by Jorge Sotirios
Athol Fugard has written many a play which resonates with a commitment to the plight of the oppressed in
Protesters detained in Port Moresby
By Frank Enright
Members of Melanesian Solidarity Papua New Guinea (Melsol) were detained while handing a petition to the Indonesian Embassy in Port Moresby on January 6. The petition complained of
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — Not so long ago, all that most Russians knew of serious infectious diseases was what they read in the classics of their national literature. After surviving a bout of typhus, Tolstoy's heroine Anna Karenina had