By Michael Rafferty
Recessions have always had a direct and obvious impact on the working class, and the current downturn is no exception. Mass unemployment, wage cuts and an intensification of work are all features of this recession.
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Poetry for the jobless
By Stephen Bavaro
SYDNEY — The Unemployed People's Embassy, based in the inner southern suburbs of Marrickville and St. Peters, has established the Poetry Party.
A spokesperson for the UPE said that the idea
ALP and preferences
Re Steve Robson's article, "WA election results and preferences (GLW, March 17).
As was published at the time, I resigned from the (WA) ALP in protest of the Serious and Repeat Offenders Sentencing Act 1992 and the WA
Asia's booming economies
By Norm Dixon
Hong Kong-born SBS reporter Jane Hutcheon has spent six and a half weeks investigating Asia's fast-growing economies and the impact this development is having on ordinary people. She visited six
Qld police slammed on Operation Trident
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Amid anguished plaints from liberal ideologues and the indifference of the mass of the population, the Eighth Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation voted on March 12 to strip President Boris
The government in Panama has banned the showing of a critically acclaimed documentary on the 1989 US invasion of the country, which put the present government in office.
The film, The Panama Deception, has been nominated for an Oscar as well
Hollywood backlash
Scent of a Woman
Directed by Martin Brest
Written by Bo Goldman
With Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell
Greater Union
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
I was prejudiced about this film before I even saw it because of
Pat O'Shane's good reasons
NSW magistrate Pat O'Shane apparently hesitated before she decided to make her views on violence against women, and on sexist advertising, known in the Balmain Local Court on January 19. She had already decided to
Stay home, Soldier
The Crying Game
Directed by Neil Jordan
Reviewed by Reihana Mohideen
In the first few minutes, the contradictions dealt with in the film come at you thick and fast. A black English soldier (Forest Whitaker) on duty