Success story
"Russia will be a success story, whatever the difficulties." — International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus after agreeing to provide the Yeltsin government with a US$1.5 billion loan if it implements new taxes and
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By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The hated military leader of the Ciskei bantustan, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo has been toppled by a revolt by Ciskei public servants and police.
Gqozo is better known here as the "Butcher of Bisho', after his troops
Challenge to Britain's racist immigration laws
By Paul Clarke
Thirty-five thousand people marched through London on March 19 to oppose racism and fascism. The demonstration, organised by the Trades Union Congress, reflected concern at the
By Tom Kelly
Completion of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has brought agricultural trade into the agreement. This will further integrate Australia's food industry into the world market.
The
Feast for the eyes, not the brain
The Scent of the Green Papaya
A film by Tran Anh Hung
Mandolin Cinema, Sydney
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
This film won two prizes at Cannes 1993 and has been hailed by many critics as a masterful film of
Good votes for Brisbane Greens, socialists
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Labor Party under Lord Mayor Jim Soorley was swept back to office in council elections here on March 26, with a swing to it of up to 7%. Soorley won 52% to Liberal
Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist's Odyssey through the "American Century"
By Peter Drucker
Humanities Press, 1994. 346 pp., $29.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"If there is a gram of Marxist blood left in me, it will take a hundred
By the Native Forest Network
"The James Bay Project is the ultimate arrogance of the engineering mentality in its devastation of the North American continent", says Thomas Berry, the author of Dream of the Earth. What is at stake is the entire
By Anthony Benbow
and Anne Pavy
Perth — Community opposition is growing to the WA police "Operation Sweep", which, under the pretence of defending young people "in moral danger", is harassing them on the street at night.
The socialist
A long way to go
Women continue to be judged according to community stereotypes, by what people think we should be, by how we are expected to act and according to someone else's moralistic, simplistic assessment of our role in society.
In
Storm over Indonesian arms sales
By Paul Clarke
Britain's Conservative government is facing a growing row over its decision to sell 24 Hawk ground attack planes to Indonesia. Hawks have already been extensively used by Indonesian forces
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
Sydney Theatre Company
Drama Theatre, Opera House, March 24 to April 30
Parramatta Riverside Theatre May 10 to 28
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
Lear himself undeniably dominates any production of this play,
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