Alana Kerr MELBOURNE — The Women's Circus' new show, Leaping the Wire, is playing at The Old Brickworks in Brunswick until December 9. A version will be performed at the Sydney Festival in early January. The Women's Circus is a feminist theatre
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By Norm Dixon The decision of the Iowa Board of Parole to release US socialist Mark Curtis is being celebrated by his supporters. "This is a tremendous victory", said an ecstatic Curtis, who will be freed sometime after December 7. Curtis has spent
DON ROJAS is the former director of communications for the National Alliance for the Advancement of Coloured People and a former editor of the New York Amsterdam News. He was press secretary for Maurice Bishop during the 1979 revolution in the
The Coming Plague — Newly emerging diseases in a world out of balanceBy Laurie GarrettVirago, 1995. $29.95Reviewed by Dot Tumney "Ultimately, humanity will have to change its perspective on its place in Earth's ecology if the species hopes to stave
By Alice Dellar Despite recent controversy over the environmental damage caused by their mines at Ok Tedi and Bougainville, giant mining corporation RTZ (recently amalgamated with CRA), has started constructing a new gold mine in Papua New Guinea.
By Janet Parker SYDNEY — "Abortion: Potential crime or medical service?" was the theme of the second national conference of the Abortion Rights Network of Australia (ARNA) held on November 25. Reports on campaigns for improved access to abortion
Nigeria: US, Britain, EU refuse sanctions By Norm Dixon The governments of the United States, Britain and the European Union (EU) have defied calls for oil sanctions on the brutal Nigerian regime, choosing instead to put their economic interests
By Jennifer Thompson After seven weeks of strike action against CRA-owned mining company Comalco's refusal to negotiate a collective enterprise agreement, and its generous pay offers to workers who sign individual staff contracts at its bauxite mine
New MoonBy Abderrahmane AbdelliReal World RecordsReviewed by Jenny Long This album from Abdelli is an enjoyable introduction to the musical culture of the Berbers of the Kabyl mountains east of Algiers. The struggle to preserve Berber culture is an
Tasmanian Greens Bob Brown (GLW 22/11/95) objects to my statement that "the Greens ... tarnished their public image" in the Tasmanian Green-Labor Accord of 1989-92. It is true that it was Labor that put forward the resource security legislation that
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