Culture

  • Poem: And Pigs Might Fly

    And pigs might fly It was crisis day in the parliament The house was hushed and still. A member rose with a question “Are we doomed to go downhill?” “I am confident of an upturn”, The PM made reply. “If workers pay is held at bay,

  • Springsteen upsets cops with Diallo song

    Springsteen upsets cops with Diallo song"Standing on the stage at Madison Square Garden momentarily shrouded in darkness, Bruce Springsteen sang the words '41 shots' nine times last night. The words begin his new song deploring the

  • The emptiness of the word 'sorry'

    DARWIN — On June 2, artist Dadang Christanto's exhibition titled “Reconciliation” was opened with a powerful performance and installation. Christanto, who was born in Indonesia in the late 1950s, uses simple

  • Kumarangk 'Karaoke and Kake'

    Kumarangk 'Karaoke and Kake' ADELAIDE — Once upon a time, a large number of people who spoke out against a proposed bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) were sued by the developers of a marina on the island. Defamation Magic turned them

  • Links magazine: Internationalism in the new century

    Internationalism in the new century Links number 15New Course Publications, May 2000127pp. $6.50The latest issue of Links, the "international journal of socialist renewal", features Marxism 2000, the second Asia Pacific Solidarity

  • Waterfront conflict staged

    Waterfront conflict staged FrontA Melbourne Workers' Theatre productionWritten and directed by Peter HoughtonTheatre Works, Acland Street, St KildaJune 14 to July 1Tickets $20/$13Bookings (03) 9534 3388 By Anne O'Casey When writer/director Peter

  • Tales of workplace violence

    Tales of workplace violence A Kind of Violence - Australian workers and workplacesThe Vulgar Press, 1999 Review by Ben Courtice Yossi Berger has written a detailed account of health and safety conditions

  • The wolf's teeth

    The wolf's teeth Unions in a Contrary World: the Future of the Australian Trade Union MovementBy David PeetzCambridge University Press, 1998243pp., $34.95 (pb) Review by Jonathan Singer Unions in a Contrary World is an academic yet readable book

  • Hymns for revolutionary combat

    Motives! Chantes de Lutte (Songs of Struggle)TactikollectifLCR-TactikollectifAvailable from Resistance Bookshops (addresses page 2) Review by Stan Demidjuk Motives!, in French, means to be or become motivated and on this CD it means "Mobilise!".

  • Robert McNamara: Sorry apology of a killer bean counter

    Sorry apology of a killer bean counter The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarBy Paul HendricksonVintage, 2000427pp, $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon In his 1995 memoirs, Robert McNamara, US secretary of defence

  • Cradle Will Rock

    A rush of liberation wind Cradle Will RockWritten and directed by Tim RobbinsWith Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Baker Hall, Susan Sarandon and Ruben Blades Review by Max Lane Cradle Will Rock, written and directed by Tim Robbins, is not just a breath