The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracing the Break-up 1980-92
By Branka Magas
Verso, 1993. 359 pp.
Reviewed by Rob Graham
"The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other
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By Sean Healy
MELBOURNE — The La Trobe University administration has upped the stakes in long-running negotiations over funding between the administration and the La Trobe University Student Representative Council. In a letter dated
Australian culture
@lctext = "She [Annita Keating ] is accompanying the orchestra and doing some PR for us and Australian culture. It is a cultural ambassador sort of thing." — Sydney Symphony Orchestra publicist on what the PM's wife will be
By Pip Hinman
The complete irrationality of capitalism, the militaristic system which is based on making money from every single type of anti-human activity — including war — was dramatically highlighted for me again last week as I
By Frank Gollan
SYDNEY — National leaders of the Community and Public Service Union have joined with the federal Labor government in supporting a proposal which will cut job security and conditions for federal public servants. Voting is
Carcrash
Directed by David Caesar
Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, from August 17
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
People "drive the way they would like to live their lives", claims this new documentary by David Caesar. They substitute for
Chilean activist in Brisbane
@9point = BRISBANE — Despite the election of a civilian government in Chile, there are still many political prisoners and human rights remain under threat, visiting Chilean activist Miriam Ortega told a
By Melani Iona
MELBOURNE — "The first political demonstration I went in was when Japan invaded China in the early '30s. I would have been five or six years old" — Wendy Lowenstein, author, journalist, teacher, protester. The epitome of
Memorial meetings for Ernest Mandel
Memorial meetings have been called in Sydney and Melbourne to commemorate the political contribution of Ernest Mandel, world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary who died in Belgium on July 20.
EDDY JOKOVICH is the editor of VolteFace, a new monthly journal focusing on international politics, and particularly the Balkans. He returned recently from a visit to Macedonia and Croatia. He spoke to Green Left Weekly's JENNIFER THOMPSON about the
By Kirsty Chestnutt
Ahhhh, the very word conjures up an array of images — Madonna, married men who fuck men in public toilets on the weekend, luscious threesomes, daggy middle-aged former straights who sit around in support meetings.
By Jennifer Leadbeater
When I think of capital punishment, it makes me angry. The emotion is so overwhelming that it is hard to explain, except using childlike simplicity such as "It's not nice" and "It's mean and unfair".
It
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