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The Pianist: An inspiring story of survival and resistance

REVIEW BY BRIAN JONES The PianistDirected by Roman PolanskiWritten by Ronald Harwood and Wladyslaw SzpilmanWith Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann In 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played the last live music heard on Polish radio before the Nazi

Hair's anti-war message as relevant as ever

HairDirected by David AtkinsLyrics by Gerome Ragni and James RadoMusic by Galt MacDermotWith Matt Hetherington, Kane Alexander, Mitchell Butal and Kelly AbbeyCapitol Theatre, Sydney, until May 8Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, from May 20. REVIEW

PALESTINE: Israel targets solidarity activists

BY NORM DIXON The parents of a British solidarity activist shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces on April 11 have accused the Israeli government of “deliberate recklessness”. The attack, the third on foreign supporters of the

UNITED STATES: Architects of empire

William Safire, Robert Bartley, Wall Street Journal, Jerry Falwell, Jay Garner, Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Lord Palmerston, Lord Shaftesbury, British imperialism, Uri Avnery "> UNITED STATES: Architects of empire By URI AVNERY

AFRICA: Rich countries loot poor's medical resourses

BY ANSO THOM Conservative estimates by Wilma Meeus and David Sanders at the University of the Western Cape's School of Public Health show that rich Western countries have saved billions by enticing African medical professionals to leave their

Why the 2003 budget must be blocked

BY DICK NICHOLS Since it was initiated several weeks ago by the Socialist Alliance, the petition campaign to call on the opposition parties in the Senate to block the 2003 federal budget by voting against all its military provisions has

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone (02) 9564 7822. Access

A Tasmanian tragedy

BY PAUL PRITCHARD HOBART — Deep in the forest, from the vantage point of a rickety bridge, spanning a lazy river black with tannin, some of the vegetation is as it would have appeared 60 million years ago. Myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine,

Apartheid in Northbridge

BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — The WA Government is again bending to the wishes of the law-and-order lobby and the business community, this time at the expense of young people, especially Aboriginal young people. On April 15, Premier Geoff

Fighting Cole's royal commission

BY SUE BULL GEELONG — As part of a series of regional report-backs about the outcomes of the royal commission into the building industry, union officials arrived in Geelong on April 15. Martin Kingham, state secretary of the Construction,

A woman's place is in the struggle: Muslim women and racism

Since 9/11, thanks to the implicit and explicit government and media propaganda that Islam is the “new enemy” of the West, those Australians who are most visibly Muslim — women who wear a headscarf (hijab) or full body covering (chador) —

SYRIA: What's behind US threats?

BY DOUG LORIMER After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US