Barry Healy

  • Socialist versus capitalist logic

    Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture & Health
    Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins
    Monthly Review Press, 2007
    390 pages, US$22.95
    Available from The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
    By Tim Harford
    Little Brown, 2008
    264 pages, $35

  • Manufacturers argue for rubbish

    The Australian Food and Grocery Council has attacked a Senate inquiry’s recommendation for national container deposit legislation, calling the approach “inefficient” and likely to cause price increases.

  • Class war and the Anglican schism

    Dramatic events within the worldwide Anglican Communion have revealed a “cold split” with the potential for a complete collapse of the Episcopal formation.

  • Switzerland: Chocolate-coated espionage

    According to the June 26 Solidarites, the Swiss multinational Nestle infiltrated and spyied on the anti-globalisation activist group Attac in the Swiss canton of Vaud during the publication of a book critical of the company.

  • Indigenous people ripped off by dodgy census data

    Indigenous communities have been underfunded and deprived of essential resources for decades because of faulty census data, a technical paper produced by Australian National University (ANU) academics has discovered.

  • Cuito Cuanavale: Cuba strikes for Africa's freedom

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic struggle in which, between October 1987 and June 1988, in some of the fiercest fighting in Africa since the Second World War, the South African Defence Forces (SADF) were humiliatingly defeated by liberation forces in Angola.