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South Africa: what about the working class?

By Dirk Hartford JOHANNESBURG — It was reminiscent of the heady mass struggles of the '80s. For four hours on January 28, several hundred trade unionists listened to fiery speeches from workers and trade union leaders denouncing the government

Stone explores the heart of darkness

NixonDirected by Oliver StoneStarring Anthony HopkinsReviewed by Russell Pink Oliver Stone is not your average Hollywood "molestation and mayhem" director pursuing an easy Oscar. He an important, complex, if sometimes annoying creator of films about

NSW teachers continue pay struggle

By Afrodity Giannakis SYDNEY — The March 20 half-day strike by members of the NSW Teachers Federation was well received by large sections of the community. About 300 associations across the state lobbied politicians in support of the teachers'

PVC, drums and coffee grinders

The Rhonda Movement in DrumheadDirected by Sue GilesApril 3-20, Wed-Sat at 9.30pmBudinski's Theatre, Lygon St, CarltonReviewed by Kim Linden The Rhonda Movement, a sassy female trio, will be performing Drumhead as part of the 10th Melbourne

Attack on women's celebration

A March 8 meeting of thousands of men and women celebrating International Women's Day at a hall in the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, was attacked by armed Islamist groups. In addition to the harassing and assaulting of large numbers of women's

Bushwalkers' hero

Never Truly LostBy Paddy PallinUNSW Press, 1996. 224pp., $19.95Reviewed by Flora Graham "Paddymade" light-weight camping gear and equipment for walkers is known and used worldwide, and Paddy Pallin himself was well known and respected by bushwalkers

Obituary: George Brown

George Brown was an elder from the Wreck Bay community. He began his successful struggle for land rights for his people in the early '70s. Like all Aboriginal land rights struggles, it was long and tiring, but it culminated after more than 20 years

* Banana laws and potato heads

By Peter Montague The US food industry went ballistic in January when Food & Water, Inc, a grassroots advocacy group in Walden, Vermont, and Environmental Research Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, published an ad in Supermarket News comparing

Talks in ACT government dispute

By Sue Bull CANBERRA — In the last two weeks, unions involved in the ACT public sector pay claim dispute have begun to negotiate separate agreements with the Carnell minority Liberal government. The picket on the Legislative Assembly has been

Racism: real and getting worse

By Lisa Macdonald Only one other term has featured as boldly and often in the establishment media as the word "mandate" since the March 2 election. "Political correctness", used in its derogatory sense to trivialise and attack attempts by

A political feast at Easter

By Lisa Macdonald Socialists and other progressive activists from around Australia will be gathering in all capital cities (including Darwin and Canberra) on or around the Easter long weekend to participate in a political feast. The "Democratic

Viewpoint: Why we're angry

Katherine Whitty Why we're angry We are 65,000 child-care workers professionally caring for you and your 450,000 children for any of many reasons, all of them justified and none more than the others. I am fortunate enough to work in a