Culture

Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
Yevgeny Yevtushenko — Yevtushenko was born in 1933 in Siberia, the son of a geologist. His first book of poems appeared in 1952 and he has published a huge amount since. Yevtushenko has had a high political profile as a democratic socialist
No Entry: Protest in the ParkA Photo EssayBy Nina LandisIntroduction by John PilgerForeword by Iain StewartPublished by Save Albert Park 1995Pre-order price $40Reviewed by Jeremy Smith No Entry is a public record of the struggle to keep Albert Park a
The Hammer and Sickle and the Washing up: Memories of an Australian Woman CommunistBy Amirah InglisHyland House, 1995, 195 pp, $24.95 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The Communist Party of Australia is no more. It has however, left behind a rich
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — In 1907, miners in the nitrate mines of northern Chile went on strike against their deplorable conditions. Eighteen thousand workers and their families marched to the port of Santa Maria de Iquique to seek support. On
By Audrey Johnson SYDNEY — A week-long exhibition of Communist Party history was held mid-November at the Tom Nelson Hall to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the party in Australia. From a collection of CP memorabilia, the exhibition
Mr Riley gets his dream house Having a flutter with a little each way does no one any harm. And who knows, maybe you did pick the winner of the Melbourne Cup? If you did then you have tasted success. Prestige and financial reward are yours. Ever so
If This is a Man and The TruceBy Primo LeviAbacus, 1995. 398 pp., $16.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The poisonous Demidenko/Darville rewriting of the history of the anti-Semitic horror of European fascism needs an antidote. There are none better
DesperadoDirected by Robert RodriguezScreening at Hoyts cinemasReviewed by Roberto Jorquera and Michael Tardif Robert Rodriguez bases his new film Desperado on the 1992 film El Mariachi, also set in Mexico. It too uses the artist/musician as the hero
By Katie Hepworth On November 6 the first full-length edition of Student Underground was sent out to schools all over NSW. The newspaper was produced by the Secondary Student Anti-Nuclear Network (SSAN) and joins a large number of student papers that
The Alliance Alternative in Australia: Beyond Labor and LiberalEdited by Robert LeachCatalyst Press, 1995.Left Book Club Co-operative, $17 (p)Reviewed by Jim McIlroy The Australian two-party political system is in crisis. After 12 years of right-wing
East Timor: Genocide in ParadiseBy Matthew Jardine with introduction by Noam ChomskyOdonian Press, 1995Reviewed by Jon Lamb Matthew Jardine is a US-based journalist and researcher who visited East Timor in July 1992, six months after the Dili