By Norm Dixon
Joe Slovo, national chairperson of the South African Communist Party and the country's most popular leader after President Nelson Mandela, was given a hero's send-off in Soweto on January 15. Slovo, born on May 25, 1926, succumbed
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Shearers union recognised
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Following formal recognition of the Shearers and Rural Workers Union (SRWU) by the Victorian Employee Relations Commission on December 23, the union is now set to seek registration in
By Max Lane
Several activists from the Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID) were released from jail in Jakarta on January 15. They had been held in prison since January 10, when 1000 workers and 100 students clashed with the
By Boris Kagarlitsky
If some reckless analyst had suggested a year ago that admirers of Yegor Gaidar would be joining on Pushkin Square with followers of extreme nationalist Viktor Anpilov to shout, "Put the Yeltsin gang on trial!", he or she
By Kirsten Lacy and Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — The Wilderness Society held a public meeting here on January 11 in response to the woodchip export licences granted by the federal government. Following lively discussion, the 200 people attending
Reprinted here are excerpts from the end of year message to East Timor solidarity supporters by imprisoned resistance leader Xanana Gusmao.
... Nineteen years have passed, and the most important difference to be noted is that the circumstances
Even now
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
At the tender age of 10, Eugene Bullard ran away from home. He was the seventh of 10 children born to a black father and Creek
Family and fantasy
Art and Lies
By Jeanette Winterson
Random House. $29.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Kathy O'Driscoll
Following from the success of her previous novels Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson's latest book
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — Anger at the third runway disaster continues to grow. Government promises of enforcing curfews and fining airlines which flout flight paths have proved a sham.
The government package, launched with great ceremony
At the Black Pig's Dyke
Vincent Woods
Seymour Centre
Roll-a-Pea
Piotr Tomaszuk
Belvoir Street Theatre
Bacchae Burning by Water
Euripedes, Robbe-Grillet, Joyce, Koltes
Performance Space
Playing as part of the Sydney Festival and
By Maurice Sibelle
WOODFORD — Nothing captured the magic of Maleny Folk Festival at Woodford more than the Fire Event on closing night, January 1. On a cool clear night, up to 30,000 participants gathered on the hills that surround the
Coledale Hospital picket imposed
By Polly McDonald
WOLLONGONG — The South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) has imposed a 24-hour a day picket on Coledale Hospital, in the northern suburbs, until the state elections on March 25, in order to
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