Culture

  • The Third Way's dead end

    The "Third Way" is an economic strategy supposedly standing between orthodox neoliberalism and socially orientated development. It's an attempt to sustain capitalist accumulation, and ameliorate the problems that capitalism creates.

  • Following the revolution to its end

    Having recently slated Ian Thatcher's woeful 2003 biography of Trotsky (GLW #696), I approached David Renton's contribution to the Haus Publishing "Life and Times" series with some trepidation: would this be another piece of incompetent anti-Trotsky hackwork?

  • On the box

    Bastard Boys — It was the fight that stopped the nation, the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront, becoming a war for the hearts and minds of Australians. ABC, Sunday and Monday, May 13-14, 8.30pm. Cutting Edge: Will Israel Bomb Iran? — What

  • Indigenous band rocks Cairns

    Nabarlek is one of the bands synonymous with Indigenous rock in this country today. Rounding up their Queensland tour at the Cairns Civic Theatre on March 10, they brought the house down. The audience was dancing in the aisles in the second set when this nine-piece group from Manmoyi in Western Arnhemland got the place rocking.

  • On the box

    The Chaser's War on Everything — Australian political satire. ABC, Wednesday, April 25, 9pm. Child Soldiers — The plight of children recruited to fight in armed conflicts around the world, and the daunting post-conflict challenges they face.

  • Would you buy a second hand war from this man?

    Want to buy a second hand war? Want to buy the war in Iraq? We went there for oil, made Iraqi blood boil now we're asking what for and wondering how we ever get back. The profits have gone and hope is forlorn it's preloved, it's used and we