Summer forest campaign
By Natasha Simons
HOBART — The slogan "Yes to EIS" (environmental impact statement) was chalked on every corner pavement in Hobart on January 18, as the Wilderness Society launched its "long hot summer" campaign
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By Neville Spencer
The defeat of the Sandinista government by the US-backed UNO coalition in the 1990 elections has left Nicaragua in a very unusual situation. The former government continues to play a large role in political life, and
Can Cuba Survive?
By Beatriz Pages
Ocean Press. 105pp. $14.95
Reviewed by Sean Malloy
Can Cuba Survive is an inspiring and magnetic interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro by Beatriz Pages, editor of the Mexican weekly magazine
By Peter Gellert
HAVANA — Cuban women bear the lion's share of the burden of the island's economic crisis, because they are responsible for keeping the household going and making do amid widespread scarcities.
"We are facing a triple
Storyteller with a message
Body of Glass
By Marge Piercy
Penguin Books, 1992. 583 pp. $12.95
Reviewed by Steve Painter
Marge Piercy's latest is set in a ruined world made largely uninhabitable by the effects of atomic war and the
CYNOG DAFIS was elected to the British parliament in April 1992. A member of the radical nationalist Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), the former school teacher ran in alliance with the Green Party. Dafis spoke recently with Green Left Weekly's FRANK
The Sharp End
ABC TV, 8.30 p.m. Tuesdays
Reviewed by Tony Smith
During the great depression of the '30s, according to my grandfather, it was common to see families evicted from their homes by the "bailiffs". During the supposedly lesser
Cambodia: the unthinkable
The seemingly unthinkable is becoming plausible. Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge is rebuilding a strength that might enable it to once again impose its terror on the Cambodian people — courtesy of the United
By Frank Noakes
"A major new effort to develop jobs which protect the environment", was how the January 18 joint statement by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Conservation Foundation described their joint Green Jobs
New world music mag
The first issue of Culture (formerly Isis) has hit the streets. Culture describes itself as a "roots music magazine" and concentrates on African music and reggae.
Judging from the depth of information, range of