Culture

  • 'Buzzword' book crashes

    The Age of AccessBy Jeremy RifkinPenguin Books, 2000$45 (hb), 312 pages REVIEW BY KARL MILLER According to the cover notes to The Age of Access, Jeremy Rifkin makes his living from lecturing to "CEOs and corporate management". That is clearly the

  • Real life on film

    The REAL: Life on Film documentary festival provides a dynamic forum for documentaries exploring issues of cultural identity, human rights and provides a voice for those otherwise muffled by bigotry, poverty and war. The not-for-profit festival,

  • The struggle (and the beat) must continue

    M1: Our world is not for saleCompilationAvailable from activist centres and independent music stores. REVIEWED BY DANNY FAIRFAX The fact that this CD's proceeds go to funding the May 1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange building in Sydney

  • Aceh's courageous struggle for independence

    REVIEW BY KATHY FAIRFAX Aceh: The People's StruggleProduced by Actively Radical Television, SydneySend $24 to ARTV, 73-75 Princess Highway, St Peters, NSW, 2044Phone (02) 9565 5522 The people of Aceh, in the far north-west of the Indonesian

  • John Pilger lashes IMF

    Spread the word now! John Pilger's vivid and evocative writing and film-making, and the voices from the Third World that he brings onto the screen, will make his new documentary New Rulers of the World a landmark event in explaining the

  • The camps within our borders

    SYDNEY — "Naw?", asks the woman at the big desk. "Nawi to ciea?", she waits, pen poised above a sheaf of papers. "Walamai prsirako bdarawa!", the man next to her barks, "Nawi kasakaw sabay ziarat ciea?". Someone in the queue behind comes to the

  • The futile war

    TrafficStars Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta JonesDirected by Steven SoderberghAt all major cinemas. REVIEWED BY STUART MUNCKTON Traffic, the latest film by director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich), uses a series of

  • People's Power in Cuba

    People's Power: Cuba's experience with representative governmentBy Peter RomanWestview Press, 1999$60 (hb), 284 pages REVIEW BY RACHEL EVANS &KARL MILLER Genuine Marxists advocate workers' democracy and fight hard for the self-organisation of

  • Can the 'beast' be caged?

    Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital MarketsEdited by Walden Bello, Nicola Bullard and Kamal MalhotraZed Books 244pp., A$48.95 Taming Global Financial Flows: A Citizen's GuideBy Kavaljit SinghZed Books237pp., A$43.95

  • Groundbreaking portrayal of Aboriginal youth

    REVIEW BY ALISON DELLIT Yolngu BoyWith Sean Mununggur, John Sebastian Pilakui and Nathan DanielsDirected by Stephen JohnsonAt major cinemas Yolngu Boy is better than most "teen" flicks. Set and filmed in the remote Aboriginal communities of

  • IBM: the 'final solution' company

    REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful CorporationBy Edwin Black Little, Brown and Company, 2001519pp., $30 (pb) IBM, as it delights in telling us, is the "Solutions

  • Why the music industry promotes sexist pricks

    "Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off/And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross ..." — so go the lyrics of popular rap artist Eminem's "My name is", a song that has been receiving high