Daens
Directed by Stijn Coninx
Academy Twin, Sydney
Reviewed by Frank Enright
Nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film", Daens is a powerful film built on a solid story. There's no Hollywood glitter sprinkled all over this
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By Frank Enright
Port Kembla grain terminal workers voted unanimously on January 13 to ban exports to Papua New Guinea. The ban will prevent a scheduled shipment of grain from leaving Port Kembla on January 28.
Announcing the ban, South
Fear From the Book - A series on books of enormous influence that struck fear into the establishment of the day. - The Rights of Man, published over 200 years ago, alarmed all those who dreaded revolution in Europe. In it Thomas Paine called for
1994 promises to be a very exciting year for the left and progressive people. In April will come the first democratic election in South Africa. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ will be there to cover it.
Over Easter, the International 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Conference will draw
By Pip Hinman
SYDNEY - A range of exciting projects to develop links between socialists and progressive movements in Australia and around the world was discussed at the Democratic Socialist Party's 15th national conference, held January 3-8.
Chaos A.D.
Sepultra
Roadrunner Records
Reviewed by Kest
It sounds like the herald proclaiming the end of the world. Perhaps even more than in their previous album Arise, Sepultra have made a record of utter desolation and anger.
They
By Maree Nutt
Since 1976 a radical bank in Bangladesh has transformed the lives of several million of its poorest people. A local group called RESULTS is now lobbying the Australian government to have it support a scheme to have the bank
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW - In the last week of December, one of the leading figures in the newly elected Russian parliament was expelled from Bulgaria after urging the replacement of Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev, whom he described as
Noel Counihan: Artist and Revolutionary
By Bernard Smith
Oxford University Press Australia, 1993.
568 pp., $59.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
"Knock them off their feet with truth and reality", wrote an artist friend of Noel Counihan
Happy New Year! 1994, the United Nations International Year of the Family. Isn't it meant to make us feel all warm and gooey inside? Isn't that why special issues of a 50 cent coin and a $5 note are going to be produced?
The family is being
By Joe Vialls
The 450 metre tall Omega mast at Darriman, Victoria, is perhaps the largest US top secret military project hidden in the open, carefully disguised as a vaguely inaccurate navigation transmitter dedicated to the worthy cause of
By Craig Cormick
Forget reading the tea leaves, don't dissect your pets, ignore the latest Ukrainian mystic and other soothsayers who get reported in the media at this time of year. GLW gives you the definitive 1994 predictions.
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