The Street and other stories
By Gerry Adams
Brandon Books, Co. Kerry. 1992. 159pp.
Reviewed by Sean Healy
Until now, the books of Gerry Adams, the president of the Republican party Sinn Fein, have focused on one aspect or another of
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Franco between two stools
Franco: Behind the Myth
SBS Television
Friday, August 6, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. Adelaide)
Reviewed by Richard Ingram
What myth? I'm guessing here, but if you asked people at random on the street, "What do you
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The government of Premier Wayne Goss has provoked an explosion of popular anger over harsh cuts to rail, education and health services, announced over the past couple of weeks.
Rail workers have threatened
Thugs attack friends of Cuba
Right-wing rioters on July 17 attacked members of the US-Cuba Friendshipment as they loaded humanitarian aid destined for Cuba. The attacks occurred during a send-off event in Elizabeth, New Jersey, organised by
People to People Conference
Activists from a range of grassroots and community organisations in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia will visit Australia in August to attend a People to People Conference between Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and
The racist violence of the extreme right in Europe is prominent in international consciousness. But, reports 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's FRANK NOAKES, this violence rests on an insidious state racism. Official racism is encapsulated in new
Government funds moralistic sex booklet
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
HOBART — A sex information booklet entitled "The Things You Do For Love" was launched here on July 16. The 12-page glossy booklet is a joint project of the Pregnancy Support
By Anna Drews
PERTH — State government proposals to amalgamate the privately owned St John of God with the publicly owned Bunbury regional hospital have brought to the fore the issue of abortion rights and job losses.
If the plan is
Abolish ANSTO, says Friends of the Earth
The environment group Friends of the Earth has written to the prime minister and minister for science and small business Chris Schacht, calling for the abolition of the Australian Nuclear Science and
By Norm Dixon
South African police opened fire without warning on African National Congress vice-president Walter Sisulu's motorcade as it travelled from Johannesburg to his Soweto home in the early hours of July 18. An ANC driver was killed
ACTU retreats on aid to phoney union
The ACTU appears to have been forced to retreat on plans for a large scale program of cooperation with the Suharto regime's puppet trade union, the SPSI.
Several weeks after publication in Solidarity
Campaign against closure of women's prison
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Women's groups, prisoners' rights activists, community legal services and welfare organisations such as Catholic Social Services have joined in condemnation of a
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