The Crying Game
Directed by Neil Jordan
Reviewed by Catherine Brown and Frank Noakes
Reihana Mohideen's favourable review of the The Crying Game (GLW #093) asks whether Jordan's film does a disservice to the Irish struggle in his
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By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — In Premier Jeff Kennett's April 6 mini-budget, state education funding was cut by a further $244 million (6.4%). This follows an $86 million cut, closure of 55 schools and sacking of all school cleaners, after
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russian officials have confirmed that plutonium salts were among the radioactive materials blasted into the atmosphere when a nuclear fuel reprocessing installation in western Siberia exploded on April 6. Although
Bases protests will continue
Bill Doyle, a Peace Action Committee (PeACe) member and organiser of the Nurrungar protest, spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's Liam Mitchell about the recent demonstration at Nurrungar and the future plans of the
Pilbara unions dispute over members
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — The United Mine Workers Union (UMWU) says its decision to recruit in the Pilbara is aimed at re-establishing unionism in the region after eight years of steady decline in
By Norm Dixon
"When we, as one people, act together decisively, with discipline and determination, nothing can stop us ... Let us rededicate ourselves to bringing about the democracy he fought for all his life: democracy that will bring real,
'Left Connection' formed
By Brian T. Carey
The 140 people who had survived as members of the New Left Party decided at their dissolving conference on March 20-21 to replace that organisation with a body called Left Connection. This would
JEREMY CRONIN is a member of the African National Congress' National Executive Committee and a central leader of the South African Communist Party. He is the editor of the African Communist, theoretical journal of the SACP. He was interviewed for
ALP
Janet Burstall is dead right! (Write On, GLW, April 7). Experimenting with political possibilities outside the ALP can only lead to disaster (e.g. the drift of preferences). Socialists should accept that fact and stop dabbling in
By Miriam Tramer
Most people outside Israel, especially the Palestinians, would see the closure of the occupied territories as an appalling disaster. Without a viable economy, the territories have been transformed into giant prison camps,
By Michael Rafferty
The alternating cycles of drought and flood, scarcity and abundance, good seasons and bad, are part of the rhythms of rural life. But the current rural crisis is unlike any other since the 1930s depression.
Two events
Let slip the dogs of film
Reservoir Dogs
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino
Coming soon to Kino, Melbourne
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
A pretty explosive first film by Quentin Tarantino, who may well fancy himself Scorsese's
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