Better Dead than Red
By Michael Barson
Plexus, 1992. $15 (pb)
Reviewed by Arun Pradhan
"A Commie. She was a jerky Red. She owned all the trimmings and she was still a Red. What the hell was she hoping for, a government order to share it
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Transport union targets privatisation
By Michael Unger
ADELAIDE — The Public Transport Union has begun campaigning against the privatisation of Trans Adelaide.
On November 2, all bus passengers were handed a leaflet warning that the
DAVID WEBER toured Russia for a month in June and took the opportunity to talk to ordinary Russians about the changes that have occurred in their country. Here we present a sampling of the interviews.
Anatoli Basmanov, cook
Anatoli Basmanov
International Playhouse — The Girl with the Botticelli Face — Part one of a play by W.D. Valgardson. Bob, a troubled, middle-aged English professor, is caught up in the bitter turmoil of marital breakdown. His only refuge is a cafe where his
The Joiner's Arms
By Home Rule
Reviewed by Peter Hicks
Like many others, my first introduction to Home Rule was this bawdy bunch of folks sifting round a pub belting out a rousing version of the Henry Lawson classic, "Sergeant Small". There
Tories back down on privatising post office
By Max Anderson
LONDON — The credibility of Britain's limping Conservative government received a further blow on November 2, when it appeared that backbench Tory MPs had forced a complete
Cape York park purchase 'double-edged'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Wilderness Society has described the Queensland government purchase of the Silver Plains grazing property on Cape York to create a new national park as a double-edged
PNG unleashes dogs of war
By Frank Enright
The international representative of the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG), Moses Havini, fled from the Solomons Islands on November 1 following reports that the Papua New Guinea prime minister,
By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — Opponents of the ACT branch of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are attempting to cut their losses following the resignation of one of their supporters from the position of branch assistant secretary. The
Mercury danger continues at hospital
By Paul Jones
BRISBANE — Despite promises from Royal Brisbane Hospital, mercury spillage dangers there continue, staff have told Green Left Weekly.
In July the Division of Workplace Heath and
You may be surprised to know that right in the heart of the international centre of capital, New York, thrives a school for Marxism. The New York Marxist School, according to one of its program coordinators, DANNY LUCE, helps ensure that New York
MIM blasted in acid raid study
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — MIM Holdings emits more than half as much sulphur dioxide as the whole of Japan, according to a report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Sulphur dioxide is the
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