By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Millions of workers throughout Russia are expected to join in job-site protests and street demonstrations on April 12, as the country's main labour federation mounts a day of action "against the worsening of the
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By Lisa Macdonald
Activists from the environment, women's, solidarity and workers' rights movements will be gathering at a Marxist Education Conference in Perth over the Easter weekend, April 15-17.
This conference, the first of its kind in
Next issue April 26
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is taking a one-week break at Easter so that many of our staff and distributors can participate in the Marxist Educational Conferences. Our next issue will be dated April 26 and will include an interview with
The senator's skeletons
The WA senator with domestic violence skeletons in his closet was forced on April 3 to resign from his position as deputy president of the Senate, after his admission of having bashed his wife. Resignation was his only
On March 31, the East Timorese resistance received news from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that the Indonesian foreign minister, Ali Alatas, had asked for a postponement of the intra-Timorese meeting scheduled to be held in Salzburg,
By Malik Miah
The United States is the first country on the planet to completely overcome centuries of racial oppression of African Americans and other people of colour. We can now proudly say, "We are a non-racial, colour-blind society".
Poor Super Man
By Brad Fraser
Sydney Theatre Company's New Stages
Wharf 2, Sydney, until April 29
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Q: Have you heard the rumour that Superman was gay? His obituary in the November 20, 1992, Sydney Morning Herald
Deal proposed on radioactive waste
A leaked letter from South Australian Premier Dean Brown to Prime Minister Paul Keating reveals that the SA government is attempting to trade its opposition to a radioactive waste repository at Woomera for a
Lesbian Sex
By the ACON Women's Team 1994 (Women and AIDS Project & Glidup)
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
"This booklet is for anyone who identifies as a woman and who has sex with other women", proclaims the first line in this informative
Rob Roy
Starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth and Eric Staltz
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Robert Roy MacGregor was a Scottish clan chief whose life, mediated through a great romantic book by
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — The short film, a poor relation of cinema for years, is experiencing something of a resurgence. Films like Ana Kokkinis' Only the Brave have won international awards and cinema distribution. Some of the more
United States: Essays 1952-1992
By Gore Vidal
Abacus, 1994. 1295 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Gore Vidal has, for most of his 70 years, been writing novels, plays, essays and journalism in a brave attempt to hold back the
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