By Jennifer Thompson
As Indian authorities struggled with an epidemic of pneumonic plague, prostitutes in New Delhi told a reporter that their business continued even while schools and cinemas were being shut. "We were told once that
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Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
ABC-TV, Sundays
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Would you give up your Sunday movie for a soap? Next time the ratings are published it will be interesting to find out how many do, because Tales of the
Anarchist newspaper launched
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — The Anarchist newspaper was launched here last week. Speakers from the newspaper collective Bernadette Le Goullan, Terry Fisher and Brendan Greenhill expressed enthusiasm
Gorky
By Henri Troyat
Allison & Busby, 1994. 216 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1892, Alexey Peshkov adopted a new name for the publication of his first story in Russia, and Maxim Gorky, "the Bitter One",
The Chris Hani memorial tour visited Australia from September 26 to October 6 to give a first-hand account of developments in South Africa. The delegation consisted of Charles Nqakula, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and member
Corrective Services imprisoned
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — Employees of the Department of Corrective Services here were imprisoned for an hour by demonstrators barring the entrance to their offices on September 30. The protest,
Comment by Alison Dellit
At the ALP national conference, a series of motions was passed condemning the proposal of up-front fees for undergraduate students, and calling for a review of the charging of fees for postgraduate courses, which
US blockade causes $1 billion loss to Cuba
HAVANA — Speaking at the Mexico-Cuba mixed commission meeting on September 19, Cuban foreign minister Roberto Robaina said US pressures caused close to $US1 billion in losses for the Cuban
By Pip Hunter
SYDNEY — "Historically, it has been easy to discuss class and race in the South African context. But the discussion on gender has been undermined or subsumed", Thenjiwe Mthintso, an African National Congress member of
Ignoring lessons
By Sid Spindler
The Kennett government is ignoring the lessons of overseas countries in building more roads at the expense of public transport.
In Los Angeles, drivers inch along 12-lane expressways.
At the International 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Conference in Sydney at Easter, Peter Camejo identified the key problem for the socialist movement as being the isolation of socialists from the necessary agency of socialism — the working class.
Illegal logging on Indonesian island
On the Indonesian island of Siberut, about 100 km west of Sumatra, all logging concessions were withdrawn and logging was supposed to be stopped half a year ago. But despite the government decision to
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