Culture

  • Cuban women show how it's done

    Cuban women show how it's done Sí Señor! — Las Perlas del Son — Corasón through Larrikin/Festival Records Review By Melanie Sjoberg One of the most exciting aspects of any music festival is the discovery of a fresh new

  • NSW Labor Council launches 'Workers Online'

    Workers Online, an internet "newspaper" for workers in Australia, is being posted every Friday from February 19 at <labor.net.au/workers/magazine> by the NSW Labor Council. Industrial news articles, features, interviews and columns are

  • Betrayed by a kiss

    Betrayed by a kiss Judas KissBy David HareDirected by Neil ArmfieldBelvoir Street Theatre, SydneyUntil February 14 Review by Wendy Robertsonand Cassandra Pomroy Judas Kiss is a potent mix of Oscar Wilde's life and love. Hedonistic, luxurious

  • The year 208

    Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary CountdownBy Stephen Jay GouldVintage, 1998190 pp., $17.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon This may be the only occasion in the history of Green Left Weekly when the following

  • Practice and practicalities of protest

    I Protest!By Phil Thornton, Liam Phelan and Bill McKeownPluto Press Australia, 1997224 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Jonathan Strauss I Protest!, written by three journalists, Phil Thornton, Liam Phelan and Bill McKeown, is subtitled "Fighting for

  • Globalisation: fiction or reality?

    The Global Trap: Globalization and the assault on prosperity and democracyBy Hans-Peter Martin and Harald SchumannZed Press, 1997 (reprinted 1998)269 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Eva Cheng One of the biggest issues confronting working people today is

  • 12 months of Australian political cartoons

    12 months of Australian political cartoonsCANBERRA — The last 12 months have generated some of the most heated debates in recent Australian political history. Events such as Patrick's sacking of its entire work force, the

  • Bands defy 'cop killer' hysteria

    Bands defy 'cop killer' hysteriaThe popular band Rage Against the Machine was forced to live up to its name when it confronted hysteria following its decision to play a benefit concert for US death row political prisoner Mumia

  • Land and Freedom

    Land and Freedom Socialist director Ken Loach's marvellous film about the Spanish Civil War is at last coming to television. Land and Freedom tells the story of David, young and unemployed, who leaves Liverpool to join an international brigade of

  • Noises from the new Durban

    dURBAN NOISE and scrapsWORKSInitiated and produced by Jürgen BräuningerLyrics by Ari SitasSend cheque for $30 (order GSE Claremont CD AM31) to the NSW Phonograph Society, M-J Hanna, Lot 58, Forest Gum Place, Greystanes, NSW 2145; or order

  • Love on the barricades

    The Love GermBy Jill NevilleVerso, 1998 (first published 1969)149 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "A fantastic, earth-shattering, dynamic, brilliant, beautiful, touching, unbelievably sensitive, outasight book written by my sister." So

  • Correction

    Correction The review of the book Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age printed in the last issue of GLW was incorrectly attributed to Robert Hodder. The review was in fact written by Maree Roberts.