Culture

  • The trials of growing up a working-class Catholic

    REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN LiamDirected by Stephen FrearsScreenplay by Jimmy McGovernStarring Anthony Borrows, Megan Burns, Ian Hart and Claire HackettShowing at Dendy and Palace cinemas nationally Liam, the latest film scripted by Jimmy

  • Art for freedom

    Just ArtShowing August 8-1531 Woods Street, Darwin REVIEW BY JO ELLIS Opened by Dadang Christano on August 8, this eclectic collection of artworks by local and international artists, explored the themes of democracy, peace and freedom. Taring

  • Big Brother: playing by their rules

    The first Australian version of the television show Big Brother is finally over, but there is another in the pipeline. Channel 10 marketers did their job so thoroughly that even its news readers were plugging the show. Big Brother

  • Unmasking our new rulers

    The New Rulers of the WorldWritten and directed by John PilgerScreening on SBS, Tuesday, August 21, 8.30pm REVIEW BY SEAN HEALY "Do you know the difference between Tanzania and Goldman Sachs? The gross national product of Tanzania is $2.2

  • 2SER Radiothon

    Sydney community radio station 2SER's annual radiothon is on again — and the station is after your support. The radiothon, which began on August 10 and runs until August 17, is one of the main ways by which the station, long a centre of

  • Children and the Bolshevik Revolution

    REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Small Comrades: Revolutionising Childhood in Soviet Russia 1917-1933By Lisa KirschenbaumRoutledgeFalmer, 2001232 pages, $45.10 (pb) "Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood", proclaimed the poster that hung in

  • WTO to 'sell' itself to youth

    GENEVA, Switzerland — Ever since the disastrous "Battle of Seattle" in 1999, the World Trade Organisation has been trying to remake its image, trading in the persona of global tyrant for that of a "hip", "with it" agent of change.

  • A raincoat full of holes

    Marxism versus AnarchismBy Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Leon Trotsky, John G. Wright and V.I. LeninResistance Books, 2001237 pages, $19.95 REVIEW BY KEARA COURTNEY The series of actions against corporate globalisation, from Seattle in 1999 and

  • A steadfast defender of liberty

    REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William HazlittBy A. C. GraylingWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000399 pages, $69.95 (hb) "Feculent garbage of blasphemy and scurrility", "loathsome trash", "disfiguring the records of

  • Daring to be democratic

    Democracy and RevolutionV.I. LeninResistance Books, 2001222 pages, $18.95 REVIEW BY JONATHAN STRAUSS Resistance Books' Democracy and Revolution represents a new effort by this publisher. Previous additions to its Resistance Marxist Library

  • Bougainville shows its courage and community

    An Evergreen IslandFrontyard FilmsMade by Mandy King and Fabio CavadiniScreening on SBS, 7.30pm Saturday, July 28 REVIEW BY MARK ABBERTON In 1989, the people of Bougainville closed down one of the world's largest copper mines, which was reaping

  • Franti makes revolution 'irresistible'

    MELBOURNE — Having arrived at his St Kilda press conference more than an hour late, Michael Franti was quick to break with the convention and respectability of the expensive surrounds of the Astor Hotel. Sitting on the back of