Hons and RebelsBy Jessica MitfordIndigo, 1996. 227 pp., $16.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Jessica Mitford, born in 1917 into a family of rural English aristocrats, had by age 15 declared herself for communism and later, during the '40s, graduated
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and ain't i a woman?: Another form of selling with sex
I was sitting around the television a few weeks ago with my flatmates. A cheer went up as a new advert came on: the camera slowly pans up a corridor; there are footprints and piles of clothing
Liberty Hall
House or workers,
Hall of trades,
Peoples' Palace,
an idea wrought in stone
and blood and struggle.
If those stones could attest,
what stories they could tell —
deals done and done deals,
bitter infighting, and
By Mahir Ali
Long after the toppling likenesses of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov personified the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, Lenin keeps cropping up in the unlikeliest of places. Towards the end of his highly readably memoir, Palimpsest, a
Cambodian Genocide Program releases key data
The Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP) at Yale University has released information on the internet today that details atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Blood and oil
By Barry Sheppard
One week after I returned from attending the Democratic Socialist Party's convention in Australia, an explosion and fire at the Tosco refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area killed one worker and injured 25.
ADELAIDE — An Enterprise Agreement that provides a pay rise for education workers in South Australia and actually puts staff back into schools, without trade-offs, was certified on December 24. The South Australian Institute of
Port Hedland strike ends
By Michael Bramwell
PERTH — Workers at the $1.5 billion BHP iron ore processing plant in Port Hedland have tentatively agreed to return to work following a combined union meeting on January 29. In a charged atmosphere,
AIDS hits poorest
By Marina Cameron
Since HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was discovered, its biggest areas of growth have been in the Third World, particularly the poorest countries. Recent reports indicate that within the Third World it is
Court rules on immunisation
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — A recent ruling by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission is sure to have significant impact on parents of young children nationwide. In a landmark decision, commissioner William
Capitalism, Socialism, EcologyBy Andre GorzVerso, 1994. 147 pp., $34.95Reviewed by Phil Shannon To say, as the blurb on this book does, that Andre Gorz offers "a vital, fresh perspective for the left" is like a baker selling three-day-old bread as
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