The Black Meteor — The arrival of a black South African soccer player to a small Dutch town challenges racism and small-mindedness. SBS, Monday, April 11, 11pm.
Cutting Edge: Al-Qaeda in Europe — In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the locus
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REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER SuperpatriotismBy Michael ParentiCity Lights Books 2004160 pages Michael Parenti's latest book is an impassioned and eloquent essay on "superpatriotism", Parenti's term for the ideology of US free-market global capitalism.
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REVIEW BY EDMUND PARKER Revolutionary Volume 2Immortal TechniqueViper Records 2003Visit <http://www.viperrecords.com> Britney Aguilera? Robbie Timberlake? Paulini Sebastian? I occasionally have the misfortune to watch ABC's Rage on a
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REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY To Truly Stand by Each Other: The Eureka Rebellion and the Continuing Struggle for DemocracyBy Hamish McPhersonBookmarks, Sydney 2004$5 (pb) "We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other, and fight to defend
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I do not knowwhat will happen after I die.I do not want to know.But I would like the Potter to make a whistlefrom the clay of my throat.May this whistle fall into the handsof a cheeky and naughty childand the child to blow hard on the whistle
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REVIEW BY JIM MCILROY "Old men send young men to die", is one of the stated themes of the riveting exhibition of photographs by veteran British photojournalist Tim Page, now resident in Australia, held in the Brisbane Powerhouse during February
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Bomb me humanlyTerrorise me with democracyMcDonaldise me when I hunger. Destroy my country to save it! The old stench of fascismis being blown away by thenew stench of fascism. Uncontrolled B52 joy flightsThat sweet, heavy steel rain. This is
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The Murdoch ArchipelagoBy Bruce PageSimon and Schuster, 2003580 pages, $24.95 (pb) REVIEW BY RUSSELL PINK Bruce Page's The Murdoch Archipelago is, at nearly 600 pages, the most comprehensive and penetrating study of how two men, father and son,
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On February 23, Indonesian painter and activist Semsar Siahaan passed away as a result of a heart attack. Siahaan was the foremost artist of the progressive movement in Indonesia and had visited Australia more than once, including to attend the
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REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS Bob Brown: Gentle RevolutionaryBy James Norman Allen & Unwin, 2004232 pages, $29.95 I grew up with parents who loved bicycles, bush walked madly and stuck "No dams" stickers everywhere. This book made me realise where they
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REVIEW BY ROGER ANNIS Cuba: A Revolution in Motionby Isaac SaneyFernwood Press and Zed Press240 pages, $25 How was it possible for poor and beleaguered Cuba to win twice as many Olympic medals as Canada? Why was Cuba able to send more than
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Most artists who make it big in Australia don't look back. But John Butler isn't one of them. The social justice issues that fuelled much of his musical passion and creativity over the years — the environment, Indigenous issues,