What's Up Dockers?SBS TV, Sunday, August 318.30pm (8 in SA)Edited by Channel 4 Strike, the Flickering Flame — A Story of Contemporary MoralityDirected by Ken LoachSBS TV, Sunday September 7 8.30pm (8 in SA)
Review by James Vassilopoulos
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Defend the right to protest
ADELAIDE — Some 250 people crowded into the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on August 17 to support the right to protest. The benefit was to assist activists facing huge legal costs.
Davie Thomason is facing charges
Keeping us in the dark
Thirty-five years ago, Betty Friedan wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique. In it she exposed "the problem that has no name" — the discontent, depression and low self-esteem that women experienced as they
Unionists and students present protest petition
By Earl Henderson
MELBOURNE
Women for Wik
By Angela Walker
ADELAIDE — Several hundred women gathered at Maughan Church on August 16 to endorse the High Court Wik decision and native title rights for indigenous Australians. The gathering heard four Aboriginal women
Why socialists oppose terrorist actions
By Doug Lorimer
On July 30, two bomb blasts in a crowded marketplace in west Jerusalem caused the deaths of 14 civilians. The Israeli government's use of this terrorist act as a pretext to
Teamsters point the way forward
By Barry Sheppard
At a news conference announcing victory in the 15-day strike against the United Parcel Service, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' president, Ron Carey, hailed the settlement as "a
Housing crisis week in Melbourne
By Lev Lafayette
MELBOURNE — Victorian community organisations and individuals have formed People for Public Housing to oppose federal and state government changes to the public housing system. The
In August 1996 the Mercury News of San Jose, California, ran a series detailing how a group of right-wing Nicaraguans supplied cocaine to one of Los Angeles' leading crack distributors in the 1980s and sent at least some of the profits to support the
By Dave Riley
It is now certain that Sinn Féin will be included in the peace talks process when it resumes in September. Despite persistent unionist intransigence, the initiative, for the moment, rests with Sinn Féin as it pushes
By Nick Everett
SYDNEY — Around 150 people attended a public meeting on August 22 to launch the Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) activists' conference. The national conference, held at the University of Technology,
A Woman AloneWritten by Dario Fo and Franca RamePerformed by Maxine GarnseyDirected by Anne O'CallaghanHayman Theatre, Curtin University, WAUntil August 31 Reviewed by Mary Little
A Woman Alone is consistent with the strong tradition of
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