SYDNEY — Chanting "end nuclear testing, ban all nuclear weapons" at least 300 protesters took the anti-nuclear campaign to the French consulate on June 23. The picket brought together groups including the Anti-Bases Campaign, Pax Christi,
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The Cuban Revolution's next generation
Between May 23 and June 2, 27-year-old ALEJANDRO HERRERA AGETE visited Sydney as part of a speaking tour. Agete, formerly a computer engineer and currently a full-time member of the Havana City Province
[A panel on the issue of women, race and class was held at the Marxist Educational Conference in Sydney over Easter. KAMALA EMANUEL, an activist in the Newcastle Decriminalise Abortion Campaign and a Democratic Socialist Party member, spoke on the
Holding barbarism at bay
MGM Sarajevo
Sarajevo Group of Authors (SaGA)
Sydney Film Festival
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
MGM Sarajevo, made in that city during the war and ongoing siege, shows in stark reality one of the bleakest
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — The rumour that Marxism is dead is highly exaggerated. Interest in Marxism, in fact, is getting keener all the time, as a succession of recent international conferences and seminars has shown. In September 1994
Newcastle University staff maintain bans
By Kamala Emanuel
NEWCASTLE — A National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) meeting on June 20 supported continuing work bans imposed at Newcastle University since May 29 and decided in favour of
No Cure For Cancer
By Denis Leary
Picador. 133 pp., $12.95.
Reviewed by Dave Riley
My sister runs her household like an amusement parlour. When you visit, you have to speak over the television, which stays on, and she doesn't care who you
Workers: An archaeology of the industrial age
An exhibition of photographs by Sebastiao Salgado
The Art Gallery of NSW until July 23
Reviewed by Lisa Macdonald
This powerful exhibition of 250 black and white photographs by Latin American
By Robynne Murphy
DUBLIN — Bernie Farrell is a spokesperson for Saoirse, a support group fighting for the release of Republican political prisoners.
"I am the mother of a political prisoner in Portlaoise jail", she explained, "which, I
By Mick White
BRISBANE — Queensland is the most poverty-stricken state in Australia, according to a Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) report released earlier this month.
Drawing the Line on Poverty shows one in four children
Canberra refuses visas to Bougainville reps
Representatives from the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army have been refused visas to enter Australia to attend a conference at the Australian National
A great voice and a way with words
Returning on Foot
Girl Zone Records 1995
Reviewed by Anthea Holt
Penelope Swales has a great voice and a way with words. In her latest CD, this singer-songwriter takes the listener on a guided tour of
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