Melbourne singer/songwriter Penelope Swayles, after blitzing the Adelaide Fringe Festival with the Melbourne Indi Women's Gang, is now on her first formal tour.
One of Australia's best new political musicians promises east coast dwellers
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By Tom Kelly
Australia is among the industrialised countries that are increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, in violation of international agreement to reduce them.
The Climate Change Convention, negotiated at the United Nations Earth
This week Green Left Weekly devotes eight pages to reports and analysis of the historic first democratic election in South Africa. The eight pages will give you background, history and interviews that you won't read anywhere else.
The victory of
By Norm Dixon
Extreme racial oppression in South Africa was a product of its brutal colonisation beginning in the mid-1600s, and this became the basis of the growth of South African capitalism.
Apartheid is much more than a system of
Half the machine?
A campaign to achieve parliamentary gender equity in the ALP was launched at a conference of Labor women in Perth last November. Since that time, women ALPers have been campaigning to pass resolutions requiring 40% of Labor
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The Reverend Jesse Jackson, whose two presidential campaigns in the 1980s brought together a wide range of oppressed minorities, workers and the disadvantaged into a Rainbow Coalition, is in South Africa to observe
Intimidation and racism
By Brandon Astor Jones
At 10.10pm on March 31, William Henry Hance was pronounced dead, his scorched corpse still strapped to Georgia's electric chair. Hance was more than a little mentally impaired. Georgia law
Reshaping Australia: Urban problems and policies
By Frank Stilwell. Pluto Press. $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Paul Walker
Science fiction has long theorised the never-ending city. Clifford Simak's The City and the Stars and the Ridley Scott cult
Mass arrest of miners
More than 300 striking miners at Placer Pacific's Porgera mine site in the Papua New Guinea highlands were arrested after they began an indefinite strike on April 14. The workers were later released because the local police
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Within the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, confusion and arbitrariness are the norm. Kremlin decrees of major significance are liable to be drawn up without the knowledge, let alone consent, of the
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