In October occurs the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Australia. Over coming months, Green Left Weekly plans to mark this occasion with a series of historical features and interviews on the CPA and the left from 1920 to the
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OH INDUSTRY (Whatever Will Become of Me?)
By Kamala Emanuel
A cloud descends on Mayfield;
It's from the BHP.
We cough, we choke, we splutter;
We vainly try to see.
It greets us when we go out,
It greets us coming in.
It gets
Dismantling the Bomb
The Cutting Edge
SBS, Tuesday, July 25, 8.30pm (8 in SA)
Previewed by Lisa Macdonald
"From day one, when we first produced plutonium in this country, we never had an option for its disposal. The notion always was that
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
Movie Matinee: Stalin's Football (1991) — Based on
An open letter
By Brandon Astor Jones
Liberation is a dialectical movement ... women's liberation in the revolution is inseparable from the liberation of [men]. — Angela Davis.
Your letter arrived yesterday. Thank you. I am glad to
Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport
By Colin Tatz
UNSW Press, 1995. 408 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
If sport is a "litmus test" for racism in Australia, as Colin Tatz argues in his new book, the results are pretty damning.
By Afrodity Giannakis
SYDNEY — Teachers at the Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) in Auburn and Parramatta are campaigning to stop a threatened closure of English for migrants classes at Auburn.
AMES is administered by the state
By Anthony Brown
The resumption of French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific has once again drawn public attention to the issue of Australian uranium exports to France.
Although the federal government announced that it had placed
Sydney
Up to 40,000 people rallied, marched and picketed here on Bastille Day, July 14, to condemn the proposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific, write Amy Phillips and Chris Spindler.
A day-long picket was held at the French
Mapplethorpe exhibition in Perth
Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective
WA Art Gallery until August 6
Reviewed by Leon Harrison
Robert Mapplethorpe, a famous and controversial gay US photographer, died in 1989 leaving a legacy in his mainly
South Africa grapples with apartheid's environmental legacy
By Eddie Koch
JOHANNESBURG — Rainbows have become emblematic of the Republic of South Africa's shift from apartheid to non-racial democracy. Since Nelson Mandela used references
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — The typical Russian murder: the door of a Jeep Grand Cherokee swings open, cartridge-cases from an assault rifle spray onto the pavement, and a strongly built, crew-cut young man in a strawberry-coloured jacket
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