Culture

  • Two years of Workers Radio

    In August 2005 Workers Radio Sydney emerged on to the Sydney breakfast radio scene. In the two years since the first broadcast, the show’s producer and presenter, Craig Bulley, has established a dedicated and growing audience who tune in between 6am and 9am weekday mornings for a hearty breakfast of music and politics. The show has become a listener’s hub for unionists, activists and community campaigners, as well as the many concerned Australian workers and their families who rely on the show for information about the attacks on their rights and conditions under the Howard government and its Work Choices regime.

  • On the Box

    Che Guevara: The Body And The Legend — Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the world's most famous revolutionary, was executed in October 1967. SBS, Friday, October 12, 8.30pm. The Motorcycle Diaries — In 1952, 23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his

  • Capital's crimelords

    Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organised Crime
    By Michael Woodiwiss
    Constable, 2005
    260 pages, $44.95 (pb)

  • Poem: To the women of Bolivia

    Her name is Lucha, short for Luisa. It means “struggle”.
    She wears a purple polera, down to her knees,
    And carries her shop in the rainbow aguayo on her back
    Her husband died 2 years ago,
    She has 3 children
    She is 26.
    Lucha’s mass the rusted roads, the birthing soils.

  • On the Box

    Communism and Football — Throughout the 20th century, the football grounds of Eastern Europe became political battlegrounds. SBS, Friday, September 28, 8.30pm. Message Stick: Cape Expectations — The small Cape York Indigenous community of

  • Terror Nullius

    The Molotov’s new track “Terror Nullius” comments on how “white Australia” treats its first people and rejects the lie that Australia was ever an empty land (terra nullius). With a pumping rock/dance beat, didgeridoo bass lines (from Dave-J), heavy guitars and spitfire lyrics, “Terror Nullius” calls on all Australians to fight for “a fair go” for Murri, Koori and all Indigenous Australians. Vote for this song and hear it played on Triple J by visiting http://www.triplejunearthed.com/themolotov. The song can also be downloaded at http://www.myspace.com/themolotov1.