Peter Boyle
Ern O'Malley is the pen name used by Nige Edwards when he writes a satirical column called "Smoko" for the Online Opinion website. The pen name is a reference to the celebrated hoax of 1944, when a collection of writings from a
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On December 6, Oxfam released a report showing that 45 million children will die, and another 97 million will be unable to go to school, because of poverty that could be eliminated if the seven most industrialized countries fulfilled their 1970
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti was beaten by Israeli occupation forces as he toured the West Bank as part of his election campaign.
Barghouti, a leading democracy and civil rights advocate and
Your beak is the needle,The thread is your song,And you mend the torn air,When the madness is gone,And the harmonies old, of the bushland unfold,When you mend the torn air with your song.
And when harmony reignedIn the forest of green,And no
The following is a letter to the Cuban Five, who were charged with espionage and sentenced to long jail terms in the US.
My name is Craig Johnston. I am in prison in Australia for crimes against the capitalist state. Myself and 16 other trade
The Scottish Socialist Voice, newspaper of the Scottish Socialist Party, has celebrated the publication of its 200th issue. The Voice was initially published in 1996 as the fortnightly paper of Scottish Militant Labour, and became the paper of the
The Decline of the Tea LadyBy Jenny StewartWakefield Press, 2004195 pages, $24.95
REVIEW BY ALEX TIGHE
This humorous, yet insightful contribution to discussion on management caused me to ponder my own memories of my early days working in the
Nicole Hilder, Wollongong
Land prices in the Illawarra region have quadrupled in the past five years, fuelled by a land shortage and an influx of Sydney "sea-change" buyers, according to the December 9 Illawarra Mercury. There has been a rush by
Sections of the international women's movement today call for gender equality and women's participation in Iraq's "reconstruction". Forums and conferences are organised calling for women's representation in the post-invasion administration and gender
Zionist myths
Rachel Freeman's diatribe (Write On, GLW #609) against Doug Lorimer's obituary for Yasser Arafat (GLW #607) repeats many Zionist myths created to demonise Arafat and the Palestinian people.
If Freeman had done even an ounce of