This month is the 40th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, a crucial event in the development of the crisis of international Stalinism. PHIL HEARSE explains. At dawn on November 4, Russian tanks, which had withdrawn from Budapest after the first
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The Woman Who Walked into DoorsBy Roddy DoyleJonathan Cape. $29.95Reviewed by Dave Riley I first read a novel by Roddy Doyle soon after the film version of The Commitments was released. Since then I've kept up with what this Irish author has to
The results of the Lindsay by-election in western Sydney on October 19 mean more attacks on working people with Howard claiming a new mandate.
The strength of the Liberals' victory — a swing in the two-party preferred vote from Labor to Liberal
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — After eight days on strike, lift workers in Victoria forced two of the three biggest lift companies, Otis and Kono, to reimburse workers for losses as a result of the federal government's new tax on travel allowances.
Born Again PagansBorn Again PagansReviewed by Alex Bainbridge "Things have changed a lot since the first album, Fighting Back" is the undeniably correct proclamation on the sleeve of the latest album from Sydney pub band Born Again Pagans. The Pagans
Against violence and intimidation, and for free speech on the left
An open letter to the International Socialist Organisation, Northcote branch For some months now, Green Left Weekly sellers have been re-establishing a sales spot at Northcote
Apartheid rulers named
Hard on the heels of the acquittal of the Magnus Malan and other senior military and political officials of the apartheid regime have come further accusations of former apartheid rulers ordering violence against
By Marina Cameron
On October 21, federal National Party leader Tim Fischer announced the lifting of an eight-year "ban" on Australian uranium sales to France. Greens Senator Dee Margetts responded on October 22, that, in fact, "Australia provided
By Tim E. Stewart
DARWIN — In recent elections for the Northern Territory University Student Union, the Higher Education Action Team won two of the three executive positions and two of the three council positions it contested. Resistance and HEAT
Rats in the RanksA film by Bob Connolly and Robin AndersonScreening at the Valhalla in Glebe and other cinemas in Sydney until mid-NovemberReviewed by Bruce Threlfo Many people would be surprised that the usually mundane event of a mayoral election
Last week, Green Left Weekly's KATRINA DEAN spoke to LIZ O'BRIEN, manager of Community Radio 2XX in Canberra, about the station's 20th anniversary this year. In 1975, the Council of Social Services, Council of Cultural Societies, the Sports Council,
SociobeastFlipside PerformanceDispensary Cafe84 Enmore Road, Newtown, SydneyNovember 1-4 and 6Previewed by Nick Fredman Sociobeast examines the evolving and contradictory relationship between humanity, society and technology. In a collage of images
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