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Blues worth collecting The Blues Collection CD or cassette In fortnightly parts Orbis $8.95 Reviewed by Graham Matthews The Blues Collection is a series of CD or cassette recordings of Blues music. Produced in fortnightly parts,
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — The campaign against the eastern tollway has entered a new stage. After a succession of mobilisations protesting the plan, state cabinet has announced a modified route for the $500 million project. In the week
Just walkin' Two twelve year olds, Aisha and Mike, discover that they are neighbours as they walk home from school somewhere on Chicago's South Side. "So how come you don't like rap?" "Wait a minute homie, I never said I wasn't down.
International Playhouse — The Rocking Chair — By Jean Claude Brisville, translated and adapted by Vernon Dobtcheff. A brash young publisher has sacked the literary manager, an older man who has spent his whole career reading in the rocking chair
By Mike Karadjis From Tony Johnston's account, we would have to believe that today everything is rosy for Greece's ethnic Macedonian minority and there are hardly any of them anyway — a view based almost entirely on the testimony of a visiting
Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal No 2 July-Sept 1994 Published by New Course Publications Sydney 128 pp., $6.50 Reviewed by Jim McIlroy If you want to keep a finger on the pulse of the international left and
SYDNEY — The scrapping of the Labor Party's three mines policy for an open-gate approach would be a serious misjudgment of the international uranium market and an unwise political decision which would be remembered at the next federal election, a
Call to cease 'cold war' against North Korea National leaders of the Uniting Church, Rev Dr D'Arcy Wood (President) and Rev Gregor Henderson (General Secretary) called on the Prime Minister on June 21 to seek a diplomatic, new initiative for

Prompted by the resignation of a former key government minister, the August 13 Selwyn by-election result rolled ominously like thunder across the New Zealand political landscape.

Resistance launched in Darwin By Tim E Stewart DARWIN — A banner drop to catch the afternoon traffic on August 5 launched the new Resistance branch here. The banner, "Human rights before mining rights", was designed to highlight the
Separate tables There's this new place where you can get a meal. And every time I go there it's crowded. Then go somewhere else. But the crowd's good. There's atmosphere and I know the regulars. And if you know the right people you can
By Tony Johnston MELBOURNE — The hot and sometimes violent battle between Melbourne's Greek and Slav Macedonians over the future of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia has gone off the boil following Greece's victory in the European