Political journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is facing execution in the state of Pennsylvania in what could become the most explicitly political legal slaying since the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.
Committees for the
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Gareth is coming
Watch out world — Gareth is coming. Stand up, Australia, because our favoured son is OS and making it big.
Does the pope live in the Vatican? You bet! Does a wombat shit in the bush? Uh-huh. Is Gareth Evans the ant's
BRISBANE — For two and a half months, 17 Central American workers, mostly from El Salvador, have been on strike protesting against racial discrimination on the job. Green Left Weekly's ZANNY BEGG spoke to Jorge Rodriguez, Salvador Ramos and Juan
Skyrail activists arrested for pot
By Zanny Begg
BRISBANE — A picket was held outside the parliamentary executive buildings on January 17 to protest against the arrest of Manfred Stephens, an anti-Kuranda Skyrail activist who had
Northlands appeal in Supreme Court
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — The vindictiveness of the Kennett government will be on display again on January 30, when the Supreme Court hears an appeal against the reopening of Northlands Secondary
Interview with the Vampire
With Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt
Reviewed by Max Lane
Vampire brilliantly transports the audience into the degenerate, darkly colourful underside of 18th century New Orleans and Paris. The three main characters, the
There are only two major newsprint companies in Australia. They are owned by the major newspaper producers.
The practice of buying up all the industries that supply your own is called "vertical integration" in business circles. That's a nice way
I don't want to talk about it
(No Eso No Se Habla)
Directed by Maria Luisa Bemburg
Written by Maria Luisa Bemburg and Jorge Goldenburg
Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Luisina Brando
Opens at the Dendy, George St, Sydney and Kino Cinema in
The Killing of History: How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists
By Keith Windschuttle
Macleay, 1994. 266 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Foucault, Barthes, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan
By John Queripel
MANILA — Few people would have thought that just eight years after the 1986 People's Power revolution, the spectre of martial law would again hang over the Philippines. Yet several indications are that this could be the case.