Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist's Odyssey through the "American Century"
By Peter Drucker
Humanities Press, 1994. 346 pp., $29.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"If there is a gram of Marxist blood left in me, it will take a hundred
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Good votes for Brisbane Greens, socialists
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Labor Party under Lord Mayor Jim Soorley was swept back to office in council elections here on March 26, with a swing to it of up to 7%. Soorley won 52% to Liberal
By Anthony Benbow
and Anne Pavy
Perth — Community opposition is growing to the WA police "Operation Sweep", which, under the pretence of defending young people "in moral danger", is harassing them on the street at night.
The socialist
By the Native Forest Network
"The James Bay Project is the ultimate arrogance of the engineering mentality in its devastation of the North American continent", says Thomas Berry, the author of Dream of the Earth. What is at stake is the entire
A long way to go
Women continue to be judged according to community stereotypes, by what people think we should be, by how we are expected to act and according to someone else's moralistic, simplistic assessment of our role in society.
In
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Sydney Theatre Company
Drama Theatre, Opera House, March 24 to April 30
Parramatta Riverside Theatre May 10 to 28
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
Lear himself undeniably dominates any production of this play,
Storm over Indonesian arms sales
By Paul Clarke
Britain's Conservative government is facing a growing row over its decision to sell 24 Hawk ground attack planes to Indonesia. Hawks have already been extensively used by Indonesian forces
Day of action on unemployment
The radical youth organisation Resistance has initiated a petition calling for a national day of action in protest at the federal government's failure to seriously address the unemployment crisis. Following is the
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress has called on the National Party government and its leader, F.W. de Klerk, to come clean about its knowledge of the criminal political activities planned and committed by the most
By Pip Hinman
The Democrats' budget proposals, launched on March 21, are aimed at encouraging business to invest and employ. According to Democrat leader Senator Cheryl Kernot, the package pushes for a transfer of taxes from business inputs to
Disturbing the War: Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam
By Val Noone
Spectrum, 1993
Reviewed by Karl Miller
This account of the Vietnam War and the movement against it targets Melbourne Catholics from around 1960 until Australian troops were
Students rally against voluntary unionism
By Emma Bird
MELBOURNE — Around 1000 students marched through the streets on March 23 in opposition to the Kennett government's proposed voluntary student unionism legislation. The legislation
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