By Vivienne Porzsolt
As in previous festivals, the latest Jewish film festival in Sydney covered the usual preoccupations of Jewish film with identity, the Holocaust, Israel and the pains of adolescence. With a couple of exceptions, it lacked
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Dragons in Distress: Asia's miracle economies in crisis
By Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld
Penguin, 1992. 346 pp.
Reviewed by Sean Healy
Few modern myths have been so pervasive, and yet so oppressive, as that of the "Asian tigers",
By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — Defeat of the incumbents in the ACT branch Public Sector Union elections has sent a shiver down the spine of the local ALP officialdom. With around 21,000 members, the PSU is the largest union in the ACT. It is not
Salvadoran band tours
Lara Pullin
Erupo Nacascol was born out of the ruins of Colonia Dolores, a community in San Salvador hard hit by the earthquake of October 1986.
Members of the group discovered their common love of music while
As long as the economic rationalist ethos prevails in the major parties, the needs of the majority will continue to be sidelined for the interests of big business. Here is a brief guide to the alternative candidates standing in the SA state
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Copulating
Did they run or were they driven?
Last week US State Department officials announced — with glee — that Cuba's future is "a prolonged, slow decline waiting for a catastrophe". They remained coy about their commitment to ensuring this becomes
Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights & Social Justice
By Ted Benton
Verso, 1993. 246 pp., $34.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Dare I say it: I'm a speciesist and proud of it. I like to look upon myself as into humans in a big way. Other
HIV in Australia
At June 30, 1993, there had been:
17,475 diagnoses of HIV
of whom
4258 had developed AIDS
of whom
2786 had died.
Between April 1 and June 30, 1993:
253 people were newly diagnosed with HIV
of whom
42 were
By Max Lane
Some 110,000 people rallied in Manila on November 30, sending a clear message to the Ramos government that the progressive moment is ready and able to launch a new campaign for political and economic reforms. The unity statement of
By David Kault
AIDS in Australia is a particular threat to stigmatised minority groups such as homosexuals, drug addicts and prostitutes. The spread of AIDS amongst people in these groups occurs largely as a result of acts occurring in private,
By Max Lane
"The mid-'90s herald the beginning of a new period in Australian politics", Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) national secretary John Percy told Green Left Weekly. "Never before has the rejection of traditional politics been so
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