Henry V
The Australian Theatre for Young People will open their major production for the year, Henry V by William Shakespeare, from July 18 at the Eveleigh Street Railway Yards in Redfern. The production involves a cast of 40 young performers
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A moving portrayal of refugees
By Tamara Desiatov and Gillian Hector
PERTH — Refugee Week, sponsored by Austcare and the Refugee Council of Australia, ended with the multi-media production In Search of Peace at the Artists Club on June
United Left makes gains in Spain
By Jaime Pastor
MADRID — The United Left (UL), based on the former Communist Party but which includes a wide spectrum of the left, scored a major success in the June 12 European elections with 13.4% of the
The World Bank is attempting to take control of important international germ plasm collections, according to a statement released by more than 40 environmental and development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) attending a meeting on biological
Wrong priorities
Nearly one in two private employers in Australia regard "good legs" and "big breasts" as more important employment criteria than skills and efficiency. This was the finding of a recent report released by the Public Sector
Printers beat Murdoch
By Jenny Long
SYDNEY — Printing workers at Rupert Murdoch's News Limited voted to return to work on July 17 after defeating company attempts to impose significant and retrograde changes in working conditions in a new
By Phil Clarke
LONDON — Britain's railways came to a near halt on June 16 and June 23 as signal workers struck in support of an 11% pay claim. The signal workers are demanding a large pay increase to compensate for greater workloads and the
John Steinbeck: A Biography
By Jay Parini
Heinemann, 1994. 614 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When John Steinbeck observed one of the most cruelly victimised groups of the 1930s Depression — the Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugees — he
Brown attacks annual leave
Dean Brown's Liberal government sided with a local South Australian employer in a failed bid to halve annual leave under an enterprise flexibility agreement.
Secretary of the Automotive, Food, Metals and
By Doug Lorimer
Ron Guignard ("Marxism and science", GLW #150) repeats his argument in GLW #145 that Marxism is not a scientific theory of society because it does not accord with his personal definition of what constitutes science.
In his
Socialist youth set goals
By Tim Stewart
SYDNEY — More than 250 people attended the 23rd Resistance National Conference here from July 8-10. Activists from around Australia, including Darwin, Perth and Launceston discussed the crisis of
Cuba blockade costs jobs
According to a United States marketing consultant who visited Havana in May, the US economic blockade of Cuba prevents the creation of between 60,000 and 120,000 permanent jobs in the US. This is considered a
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