By Julia Perkins
ROSEBERY — A $10,000 Arts Council grant has been awarded to the "Rosebery Miners and Axemen's Bush and Blarney Festival" for a community theatre project based on Marie E.J. Pitt's poem "The Keening". Pitt, who lived in Rosebery
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By Aziz Choudry
CHRISTCHURCH — The New Zealand government is the chair of APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) for 1999. We are now entering a period of hard sell for the government and business leaders who support APEC's goal of a "free"
GLW library appeals for books
By Dave Holmes
SYDNEY — Ready access to the right materials is crucial for a cooperative venture like Green Left Weekly, no less than for the big capitalist dailies. And for all the increasing importance of the
Women and revolution
By Lisa Frankland and Emma Murphy
In Australia today women are told (and many believe) that we have achieved full equality. Oh yeah? Why, then, are women still paid an average of 67% of the male wage, and why are our looks
Democratic Socialists to contest NSW elections
Democratic Socialists to contest NSW elections
By Tom Flanagan
The Democratic Socialists have announced four candidates for the NSW elections scheduled for March 27. Standing in Port Jackson is
Get a clue
"Fortunately [psycho]analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist." — Karen Horney 1885-1952. For decades psychologists have spent the bulk of their professional
By Anna Weekes
JOHANNESBURG — The British Labour government has become involved in the privatisation of South African water. Just weeks before a water privatisation contract with British transnational Biwater was to be sealed, British trade and
Malaysian democracy activist arrested
By Khatijah Abdullah
KUALA LUMPUR — Tian Chua was at a thankyou party for volunteers of the Asia Pacific People's Assembly on November 21 when news reached the gathering that a pro-reform demonstration had
By Erin Killion and Wendy Robertson
On November 21, National Union of Students delegates, office bearers and observers gathered in Campbelltown for the 1998 NSW branch conference. "It was a joke" said Alison Dellit, a Resistance member and delegate
"Forget about the glass ceiling and all those other feminist icons purporting to hold back the advancement of women as leaders", advises Geoffrey Maslen in the November 17 Bulletin magazine. "Women already dominate uni campuses — soon they will
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Castro: the making of a Marxist
Review by Neville Spencer
The Making of a Revolutionary. My Early YearsBy Fidel Castro — Edited by Deborah Shnookal and Pedro Álvaro TabíoOcean Press, 1998141 pp., $19.95 (pb) In the capitalist
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