World Music: The Rough Guide
Rough Guides/Penguin Books, 1994
720pp., $29.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This moderately priced brick of a book is a godsend for anybody interested in beginning the addictive journey of exploration through
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By Natasha Simons
Hundreds of activists from across Australia will meet in Melbourne from July 8 to 10 for the 24th national conference of Resistance. It will be the largest socialist youth gathering in Australia and a great opportunity for
By Gemma Byrne and Julia Perkins
PERTH — A Liberal state government proposal involves ending funding of all peak bodies in the welfare sector by June 30. They must then tender "expressions of interest" for new funds (up to a maximum of
Alliance against live animal exports
By Margaret Setter
An alliance between the Australasian Meat Employees Industrial Union (AMIEU) and Animal Liberation has been forged to fight for the abolition of the live cattle export trade to Asia
Burnt by the Sun
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Screening at the 42nd Sydney Film Festival
State Theatre, June 9-24
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
As a hero of the Red Army in the civil war, Colonel Sergue Petrovitch Kotov lived comfortably and
Time and motion
By Dave Riley
I'll tell you what enterprise bargaining is about — consensus. It's as simple as give and take. After a time, you don't even notice the little sacrifices you are asked to make.
At one factory I was
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Yes, there are to be parliamentary elections in Russia in December. After repeated indications that the authorities wanted the polls put off indefinitely, or run in conjunction with the presidential election due for
An all-women ALP branch?
The ALP's campaign to recruit women and present itself as the place to be for all feminists with ambition is continuing. In Victoria, an all-women branch has been mooted by Linelle Gibson, secretary of the Williamstown
Mexican reject Helms bill
The following statement was released by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's governing party, on May 14.
The National Executive Committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party express its
Slave wages for disabled workers
By Deirdre Graham
SYDNEY — Mentally disabled workers are working for as little as $3 a day, according to Wayne Ryan, a psychologist with the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA).
"Wages range