Culture

  • A scathing attack on policies of the US government

    Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So HatedBy Gore VidalThunder's MouthPress/Nation Books, 2002160 pp., $29.20 (bp) REVIEWED BY ROLAND SHEPPARD "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip the citizenry into a

  • Woomera song: 'I guess I get a little emotional sometimes

    The days are getting colderThey stretch before me all in a lineEach night gets a little bit longerAnd these stars that once were strange now I call mineOh, it's been so long since I saw her faceAnd I just can't find my way out of this placeI took the

  • An uproarious 'defence of the rich'

    REVIEW BY IGGY KIM Abducting DianaWritten by Dario FoDirected and adapted by Shane MorganWith Hayley Buckley, Martin Viski, Moira Hunt, Mark Duffy, Mandy Thomas, Joanne Trentini and Shaun ParkerPlaying at the New Theatre, Sydney, until August 31

  • Why the right hates Steve Earle

    Steve Earle has always been intrigued by fighters, and by the reasons why they fight. He has championed union organisers, the impoverished, death-row inmates and indigenous rights activists. As one of America's most prominent

  • Green Left Weekly on TV!

    SYDNEY — Every Sunday at 9pm, Green Left Weekly readers in Sydney can escape the usual Hollywood tripe for two hours and enjoy radical news and current affairs analysis. Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) broadcasts a mix of documentaries,

  • How to fight the bosses' goons

    Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaBy Stephen H. NorwoodUniversity of North Carolina Press/Chapel Hill, 2002328 pp, $50 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON On 26 May, 1937, United Automobile Workers

  • Challenging ideas of gender

    REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM All About My FatherDirected by Even BenestadScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival in June Even Benestad made documentary film about his father, but both had very different ideas about what the film would achieve.

  • A revolutionary manifesto for the 21st century?

    EmpireBy Michael Hardt andAntonio NegriHarvard University Press, 2000480 pages, $47 (pb) REVIEW BY ZANNY BEGG Since being published almost two years ago, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri's Empire has continued to create waves. The popularity of the

  • An evening with John Pilger

    SYDNEY — On August 13, Dendy Opera Quays Cinemas' will screen two of John Pilger's acclaimed The Timor Conspiracy and his latest documentary, The New Rulers of The World. Pilger is a renowned Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker whose

  • Mootwingee

    Among the ancient rocks I pace,Scattered through the friendlyStringybarks, and gaping waterhole,Which feeds the parched red clay. And gazing on antipodean stone,I shield my eyes from glaringWinter, solstice sun. Then in a flash I am

  • Loach exposes privatisation's pitfalls

    The NavigatorsDirected by Ken LoachWritten by Rob DawberScreening in most major cities from August 8 REVIEW BY JANET BURSTALL Ken Loach's latest film, The Navigators, depicts the impact of privatisation on a group of former British Rail workers.