Land and Freedom
Socialist director Ken Loach's marvellous film about the Spanish Civil War is at last coming to television. Land and Freedom tells the story of David, young and unemployed, who leaves Liverpool to join an international brigade of
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Eliseo Balcazar
Eliseo Balcazar, a Guatemalan trade union activist and revolutionary, died in Melbourne on January 16 at the age of 56. His entire adult life was spent in the shadow of the Guatemalan military dictatorship.
After an apprenticeship
On average, women receive only two-thirds of the wages of men. Accessible child-care is still not publicly provided. Free education and health care do not exist. Women still suffer violence in their homes and on the streets. Women of colour still experience racism. Women still do not have control of their reproduction: abortion is still illegal and expensive. Women still do the majority of the unpaid work in the home.