Stanley Road
Paul Weller
Go! Discs
Reviewed by Stuart Loasby
Although he is best known for his achievements in the Jam and the Style Council through the '70s and '80s, Paul Weller's solo career, which began in 1992, has proved very
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Beijing conference compromise
By Kath Gelber
As the Fourth World Conference on Women, due to be held in Beijing in September draws closer, a compromise has been reached on the controversial issue of a site for the NGO forum.
Initially
By Dave Wright
SYDNEY —Fifty waterside workers picketed the French ship Renoir at Darling Harbour on July 20. The peaceful picket was called by the Maritime Workers Union to protest against the French government's decision to resume nuclear
Melbourne Hospital workers strike
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Around 300 health workers struck here on July 19 in protest against the government's proposals to slash jobs and health services at the newly amalgamated Austin and Repatriation
Born in Soweto
Directed by James Ricketson
SBS, Friday, July 28, 8.30pm (8 in Adelaide)
Previewed by Norm Dixon
This Australian-made documentary, made soon after Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president,
By Allen Myers
Ernest Mandel, a world-renowned Marxist scholar and revolutionary, died in Belgium on July 20, at the age of 72.
Mandel is best known for his numerous contributions to the Marxist understanding of economics. He was one of at
AIDS memorial
SYDNEY — The third Sydney HIV/AIDS tree planting day was held in St Peters Sydney Park on June 25. Kendall Lovett, one of the organisers, reports that around 70 people planted 300 young trees in memory of a lover, friend or
By Richard Horsey
Whatever the reason for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, we can be sure that it was not the sudden realisation by the Burmese junta that it had been wrong all these years in denying its people democracy.
When it comes to
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Third party candidates, especially the Greens, had an unprecedented impact in the recent state election. Yet the bitter controversy over preferences threatens to split the environment movement in a very damaging way.
Rosa Luxemburg: A Life,
By Elzbieta Ettinger
Pandora, 1995. 325 pp., $22.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
It is a frustrating feature of the later films of the Marx Brothers that the Marxist funny business keeps getting interrupted by the
OSCAR TEMARU is leader of Tavini Huiraatira (Polynesian Liberation Front), the main pro-independence party in French-colonised Tahiti. He has led the Tahitian opposition to the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing. Â鶹´«Ã½
The Greens (WA) believe that there are a number of problems with the federal government's compulsory employee contribution superannuation scheme, announced in the latest budget, to be implemented from 1998-99. The following is an abridged version of
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