Culture

REVIEW BY RICHARD PITHOUSE The Poors of ChatsworthBy Ashwin DesaiMadiba PublishersSouth Africa, 2000 DURBAN — Ashwin Desai describes his book, The Poors of Chatsworth, as "journalism, an account from the frontlines of the [South African]

A SHORT STORY BY RACHEL LAREDNI Watch them travel in metallic wombs, speeding along veins of the city weaving their way through metal and concrete into the heart of the grand Mecca of capitalism. Tidy men of smooth shaven faces absorbed in the lies

Billy Elliot Directed by Stephen Daldry With Jamie Bell and Julie Walters  REVIEW BY ADAM GOLDSTEIN The depiction of British working-class life in films, beginning in the late-1950s, emerged full-bloom in the 1990s. It has taken

SYDNEY — You passionately committed to a political cause. You have been given $30,000 to help you bring about political change. What do you do with it? Fund a demonstration? Design a web site? Hire a lobbyist? Bribe a politician? Buy guns? Or do

DURBAN — From Boksburg to Berlin, discerning ears are being seduced by a record label that measures its success in the currency of meaning. If this culture reaches critical mass, "the global village" might just stop being a

Promise of a Dream: Remembering the SixtiesBy Sheila RowbothamAllen Lane/Penguin, 2000262 pp, $40.00 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "Dreams have gone out of fashion" and the dreams of the 1960s generation, veterans from a tumultuous decade when

The Art for a Change web site (<http://www.primenet.com/~mvallen&#062;) has just published an emergency Palestine solidarity issue that documents art activism in support of a just and lasting peace between the Palestinian and Israeli people.

REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS Dancing in our DreamsPressGangVoxpop records<http://www.voxpop.demon.co.uk&#062; Cheerful harmonies, dulcimer, double bass and danceable praise of the egalitarian Chartist faith of the English working class. This is

REVIEW BY EVA CHENG Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical ResponsesBy Robert WentTranslated by Peter DruckerPluto Press170 pp, $42.80 With Ernest Mandel, the respected Marxist economist, as one of its founders, the Amsterdam-based

South Africa in the mid-'70s was a deeply oppressive society. Apartheid repression was at its height and rigid racial segregation was the law. So when Sipho Mchunu, an illiterate black gardener from rural Zululand, and Johnny Clegg, a white

SYDNEY — The Anin Murak choir, from East Timor's devastated Dili region, is touring NSW. Money raised will go to an education fund to support the young singers, who have no school facilities in their district. The tour is being organised with the

REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS Angel of New OrleansDavid RoeRoyal Rags Records, New Orleans<[email protected]> If you are wandering New Orleans' French Quarter streets, you will likely come upon what seems to be a statue of an angel, all