By Doug Lorimer
Just three years after Mexico's financial disaster, the second great financial crisis of the 1990s exploded in south-east Asia and South Korea. The same imperialist institutions that only a year ago held up the Asian "dragons" and
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Tax staff support bad agreement
By Ben Courtice
MELBOURNE — The Australian Tax Office management's draft enterprise
agreement was accepted by 79.6% of staff who voted in a ballot taken between
July 13 and 15. Fifty-six per cent of
A Delicate BalanceBy Edward AlbeeSydney Theatre CompanyOpera House Drama Theatre By Mark Stoyich
Edward Albee became one of the US's most famous postwar playwrights almost entirely on the basis of one play; but what a play! Who's Afraid of Virginia
By César Ayala
GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico Thousands of demonstrators on 150 picket lines across Puerto Rico have popularised the slogan "Puerto Rico no se vende" — "Puerto Rico is not for sale", or "Puerto Rico does not sell out". The slogan
By James Balowski
Encouraged by the student demonstrations in May which led to the resignation of President Suharto and the political concessions this forced on the new Habibie government, hundreds of pro-independence protesters have been
Warehouse workers fight casualisation
By Gail Lord
SYDNEY — Members of the National Union of Workers (NUW) have been on strike for over a week to stop attempts by Davids Ltd to increase casualisation and working hours for its warehouse staff.
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — More than 600 students and activists gathered at the Students and Sustainability Conference (S&S), held at the University of Tasmania and the Lea Scout Camp, July 6-10. The conference is an annual forum of student
Young socialists plan campaigns
By Jacquie Moon, Bronwyn Jennings and Marcel Cameron
MELBOURNE — More than 220 activists gathered in Melbourne on July 11-13 for the 27th national conference of the socialist youth organisation Resistance. Under
Residents rally to save green belt
By Alistair Dickinson
SYDNEY — The Australian Defence Industries (ADI) Residents Action Group is hoping for a big turnout for a march and rally starting at 11am at the ADI gates in St Marys on July 26. The
Chile, Obstinate MemoryDirected by Patricio Guzmán Review by James Vassilopoulos
September 11, 1973, is a date chiselled into the consciousness of the Chilean people. It was the day of the coup d'etat by General Augusto Pinochet against the
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