NEWCASTLE —Pasted is an exhibition by Stephen O'Brien of political posters that have been "rediscovered" underneath beds, behind wardrobes and in the corners of garages. O'Brien has photographed and recorded 1900 posters going back almost 40
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Austin Whitten
Another notoriously crooked polling question
greeted Australians on March 30, compliments of the Sydney
Morning Herald and the Age.
Both newspapers claimed a poll conducted by ACNeilson on
March 26-28 showed that most
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
Following Easter protest actions at Woomera and Baxter detention centres in 2002 and 2003, refugee activists from around the country will this year converge on Prime Minister John Howard's Sydney residence, Kirribilli House.
Mondli Hlatshwayo, Johannesburg
Khanya College, one of South Africa's leading left-wing labour movement support organisations, and the Workers Library are fighting attempts to evict them from their historic premises in Johannesburg's Newtown arts
Saul Landau
Someone once asked Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization. "It would be a good idea", he replied.
Democracy in Latin America might also prove nice if the United States would allow it to occur.
Traditionally, when
Dave Riley, Brisbane
What was once simply known as Brisbane has morphed over the past 20 years into a new entity: South East Queensland. SEQ, as it is generally referred to, doesn't just straddle the Brisbane River at its mouth, but stretches from
Doug Lorimer
Some 400 members and observers attended the sixth annual conference of the Scottish Socialist Party, held in Edinburgh over the weekend of March 27-28. It was the first SSP conference since the election of six SSP members to the
Bryan Sketchley, Melbourne
If any Victorian trade unionist had an inkling that Premier Steve Bracks' Labor government would deliver a half way decent deal for workers, they would, by now be sadly disappointed.
With the current round of enterprise
Free your mind — "to those who never give up!"
Free your mind When you feel alone, When you get down, 'cause life just belongs, to those who settle down.
Free your mind When things have gone wrong, When they put you behind bars, 'cause here,
The Wide Blue RoadDirected by Gillo PontecorvoWritten by With Yves Montand and Alida ValliAvailable on Region 1 DVD only, US$27.
REVIEW BY LOUIS PROYECT
In a remote and picturesque fishing village on an island off the coast of southern Italy,
Robyn Marshall, Caracas
There is some objective news reporting in Venezuela, although the country's media — newspapers, television and radio — is massively dominated by the powerful, right-wing corporations owned by mega-magnate Ricardo
Rohan Pearce
In the imperialist countries such as Australia, people are conditioned to react differently to the violence of the oppressed and the oppressor. So, for example, the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid claimed some 200 lives and the
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