By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — The Marxist educational conference, "Campaigning for democratic socialism", to be held here over Easter, is shaping up as a major event on the city's left calendar.
To be held at the Lincoln Institute (625 Swanston
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Abortion information law goes to Irish court
By Kath Gelber
The Irish Supreme Court is to review a new "abortion information bill" allowing doctors and other professionals to give women the names and addresses of abortion clinics outside
Harold
Written and directed by Steve Thomas
A Flying Carpet Films production
ABC TV, Sunday, April 9, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This intriguing documentary reveals the story of Harold Blair, one of Australia's greatest opera singers
Serbs charged with war crimes
The Hague International War Crimes Tribunal issued its first mass indictments on February 13, charging 21 Serbs with 275 counts of war crimes, breaches of the Geneva Convention, crimes against humanity and
By Peter Montague
Can reliance on the marketplace by itself control pollution? Here we examine a case study — the dry cleaning industry.
There is nothing dry about dry cleaning. All materials processed by dry cleaners are soaked in toxic
GABRIEL TETIARAHI is the national coordinator of the French Polynesian organisation Hiti Tau, which brings together 40 non-government groups working on environmental, sovereignty and social issues. He recently visited Australia, where he provided a
News From Nowhere and Other Writings
By William Morris
Edited by Clive Williams
Penguin. 430 pp., $12.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Dave Riley
William Morris was an extraordinary man. Today, a year short of the centenary of his death, perhaps a
By Jennifer Thompson
Israeli military experts are helping the Turkish government combat Kurdish separatist guerillas, the French weekly "confidential" newsletter TTU said on March 17.
The newsletter, which uses unnamed sources, said Turkey
By Mike Bell
BRISBANE — Brisbane's Campaigning for Democratic Socialism conference, over the Easter weekend, is shaping up to be the largest such gathering ever held here. The conference is organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and the
Twenty-four arrested in M2 blockade
By Sam Statham
SYDNEY — At 6am on March 29, police dispersed the "civil disobedience" blockade of the M2 Tollway, near Macquarie University in Epping, which had been costing the Abigroup-Obayashi