Abortion an election issue
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — The Women's Abortion Action Campaign (WAAC) has surveyed all candidates standing in the by-election for the state seat of Parramatta to determine their attitude to women's right to
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By Del Cassidy
Two young men order a pizza. When the delivery man arrives they rob him and beat him senseless with a baseball bat. Not an uncommon scenario in the United States, arguably one of the most violent countries in the world. In this
Worker activist arrested in Indonesia
JAKARTA — On August 13, the chairperson of the Indonesian Prosperous Worker Union (SBSI), Dr Muchtar Pakpahan was arrested by 18 Medan police at his home in East Jakarta. Pakpahan is being held at the
"The Reconstruction and Development Program and the left: how and what are we reconstructing and developing?" was the theme of a debate recently held in Johannesburg. Sponsored by Phambili Books, the city's only socialist bookshop, the meeting heard
Successful women's cultural night
By Chantal Wynter and Alex Bainbridge
MELBOURNE — More than 100 people attended a lively cabaret of women performers, a benefit for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, here on August 6.
In her welcome, Shaylee Rose
By Tom Kelly
SYDNEY — Wingham Forest Action's (WFA) many-faceted campaign to defend forests and fauna from logging in the Wingham management area, north-west of Taree in northern New South Wales, has found its way to Sydney's Land and
International Playhouse — The Rocking Chair — By Jean Claude Brisville, translated and adapted by Vernon Dobtcheff. A brash young publisher has sacked the literary manager, an older man who has spent his whole career reading in the rocking chair
Blues worth collecting
The Blues Collection
CD or cassette
In fortnightly parts
Orbis
$8.95
Reviewed by Graham Matthews
The Blues Collection is a series of CD or cassette recordings of Blues music. Produced in fortnightly parts,
The Solzhenitsyn school of falsification
The Russia That We Lost
Directed by Stanislav Govorukhin
Screening on SBS 8.30pm August 25 and September 1
Reviewed by Doug Lorimer
The promo for this two-hour "documentary" issued by SBS
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — The campaign against the eastern tollway has entered a new stage. After a succession of mobilisations protesting the plan, state cabinet has announced a modified route for the $500 million project.
In the week
The South African government of national unity marked its first 100 days in office on August 18. Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's Johannesburg correspondent, NORM DIXON, spoke to SACP Central Committee member JEREMY CRONIN about his assessment of the government's
Prompted by the resignation of a former key government minister, the August 13 Selwyn by-election result rolled ominously like thunder across the New Zealand political landscape.
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