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The politics of performance

Challenging the Centre: Two Decades of Political TheatreEdited by Steve CapelinPlaylab PressReviewed by Dave Riley Today, if I employed the term "agit-prop", very few people would know what I mean — and many of those who perchance recognised the

Kanak band on tour

t's remarkable that the music of the Pacific features so sparingly on the world music scene in Australia. In PNG, Fiji and the Pacific, there is some great music that combines the best of indigenous rhythms and harmonies with contemporary pop

Determined that fascism wouldn't happen again

Primo Levi: Bridges of KnowledgeBy Mirna CicioniBerg Publishers, 1995. 222 pp., $29.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Amongst the 200,000 demonstrators in Milan in 1994 protesting against the inclusion of neo-fascists in the newly elected right-wing

Suharto still afraid

By Max Lane President Suharto's move to oust Megawati Sukarnoputri as the legally recognised head of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) was aimed at ensuring that there would be no opposition to Golkar, the ruling party, in next year's

High school students organise

By Paul Howes [The following is an edited version of a talk presented to the "Fight back!" conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and the socialist youth organisation Resistance on September 1. Paul is a year 9 student at Blaxland

Another Ok Tedi in the making

By Lisa Macdonald A recently released Australian Conservation Foundation report accuses BHP of planning to recreate the environmental and social disaster of the Papua New Guinea Ok Tedi mine, this time in the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica. ACF

Surfrider plans campaigns

Surfrider plans campaigns HOBART — On September 2, the Surfrider Foundation had its first meeting for this year. The group campaigns against the pollution of Tasmania's rivers and oceans. Michael Paxton, Tasmania's NUS environment officer, called

CFMEU branch blames police

MELBOURNE — In response to other union leaders denouncing so-called "agitators" at the August 19 rally at Parliament House, Martin Kingham, Victorian secretary of the CFMEU construction division, contacted the media to put a contrary point of view,

Where the parties stand on Workplace Relations Bill

By James Vassilopoulos The Senate Economic References Committee, which examined the Coalition government's Workplace Relations Bill, reported on August 22. Three reports emanated from the committee: the majority report backed by the ALP, a

Forum discusses Howard's attacks on women

By Kamala Emanuel NEWCASTLE — A panel consisting of a high school activist, a doctor working in reproductive health and a trade unionist who attended last year's Beijing Conference on Women addressed a forum on the impact on women of Howard's

NSW teachers win pay rise

NSW teachers win pay rise By Liam Mitchell SYDNEY — A 14-month campaign of industrial action against the NSW Department of School Education by public and private school and TAFE teachers has won a 16% pay rise for teachers in public schools and

Action updates

Save Barrington Tops NEWCASTLE — "No Forests — No Future" was the title of a public meeting here on August 27 organised by the Wilderness Society. The meeting, attended by 140 people, was called to discuss woodchipping in native forests and