By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY - A range of exciting projects to develop links between socialists and progressive movements in Australia and around the world was discussed at the Democratic Socialist Party's 15th national conference, held January 3-8.
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Chaos A.D.
Sepultra
Roadrunner Records
Reviewed by Kest
It sounds like the herald proclaiming the end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra have made a record of utter desolation and anger.
They
By Maree Nutt
Since 1976 a radical bank in Bangladesh has transformed the lives of several million of its poorest people. A local group called RESULTS is now lobbying the Australian government to have it support a scheme to have the bank
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW - In the last week of December, one of the leading figures in the newly elected Russian parliament was expelled from Bulgaria after urging the replacement of Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev, whom he described as
Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary
By Bernard Smith
Oxford University Press Australia, 1993.
568 pp., $59.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"Knock them off their feet with truth and reality", wrote an artist friend of Noel Counihan
Happy New Year! 1994, the United Nations International Year of the Family. Isn't it meant to make us feel all warm and gooey inside? Isn't that why special issues of a 50 cent coin and a $5 note are going to be produced?
The family is being
By Joe Vialls
The 450 metre tall Omega mast at Darriman, Victoria, is perhaps the largest US top secret military project hidden in the open, carefully disguised as a vaguely inaccurate navigation transmitter dedicated to the worthy cause of
By Craig Cormick
Forget reading the tea leaves, don't dissect your pets, ignore the latest Ukrainian mystic and other soothsayers who get reported in the media at this time of year. GLW gives you the definitive 1994 predictions.
January:
The Long Journey: South Africa's quest for a negotiated settlement
Edited by Steven Friedman
Ravan Press, 1993. 206 pp., R66
Heroes or Villains? Youth politics in the 1980s
By Jeremy Seekings
Ravan Press, 1993. 108 pp., R44
Marabi
By Jose Gutierrez
Some years ago social psychologist Ignacio Martin Baro wrote that in El Salvador government officials had imposed an "institutionalised lie" upon society, which he defined in general terms as "the systematic screening of
According to the January 12 Financial Review, the insurance industry, a major beneficiary of the services of firefighters, is considering proposals to relieve itself of a levy that provides about three quarters of total NSW fire brigade funding.
By Brandon Astor Jones
The citizens of the city and county of San Francisco can be very proud of their sheriff, Michael Hennessey, for his uncommon courage and leadership. Sheriff Hennessey has broken away from the bureaucratic,
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