By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "The Russian government's economic program cannot be implemented by democratic means", a speaker argued bluntly at an international conference held by the Russian trade unions on September 16.
The same day,
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New laws slash asylum numbers
New laws which went into effect on July 1 have halved the number of asylum seekers entering Germany.
However, in an interview with the Bild newspaper, interior minister Manfred Kanther on September 7 urged
On September 15 a PNG police riot squad detained, interrogated and severely beat Gewai Dusty Zamunu, a village leader and project manager working for a joint Rainforest Information Centre and Village Development Trust community development and
Close to Eden (Urga)
A film by Nikita Mikhalkov
At the Kino, Melbourne, from September 17
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Nikita Mikhalkov says that he is an unashamedly sentimental Russian. Something about Mongolia, he explains, stirred his
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." This quote from revolutionary poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht describes the relationship of the Review section of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly to the material it covers.
Asia-Pacific workers' conference
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — Twenty-two leading trade unionists and labour researchers from the Asia-Pacific region will participate in the "Workers Change the World" conference here from September 29 to
Amcor monopoly threatens Victorian forests
MELBOURNE — National Wilderness Society spokesperson Georgie Stewart, speaking here on September 16, said that Amcor's success in establishing a monopoly on the production of higher grade papers in
'Stop the Chainsaw Massacre'
Activists from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) blocked the main entrance to Paramount Studios on September 15, demanding that the film and entertainment industry stop using tropical rainforest wood in set
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — In 1991 Joy Williams (her Aboriginal name is Janaka Wiradjuri) published a collection of poems in the book Blackberry's Child. In one of her poems, Joy writes of the inspiration she gained from the poems of the
Genetics and sexuality
By Daisy Kiriakidis
MELBOURNE — Experiments to seek out a "gay gene" were the topic of a public meeting organised here by the Democratic Socialist Party on September 24. About 60 people discussed contributions by
(Un)declared wars
As if it was not enough that women are being discriminated against in almost every aspect of society already, now most of the world's media are waging an undeclared war on women who are victims of AIDS.
Instead of serving
Pornography debate on SBS
Patently Offensive: Porn under siege
SBS Television
October 4, 11.40 p.m. (11.10 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Ignatius Kim
The key focus of the debate on pornography is whether it contributes to sex crimes. Does
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