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[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 30-32] Following Channel Four’s series on the composer Richard Wagner, John Bulaitis looks at the life and art of this controversial 19th century figure. The centrepiece of Channel Four’s Wagnermania series was an interesting documentary entitled Wagner vs Wagner featuring the composer’s great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner. The documentary…

Tony Saunois: Mexican crisis, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas

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[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 18-21] Sixty thousand Mexican troops, together with US and Argentinian ‘advisors’, are besieging the guerrillas of the Zapatista National Liberation Front (EZLN) in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Unable to hunt down and crush the guerrillas, they are wrecking the peasants’ villages, destroying their tools and poisoning…

Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill

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[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 32] Churchill: The End of Glory, by John Charmley. Sceptre, 1995, £9-99. Reviewed by Mike Waddington. This is a truly good read. Although written by a right-wing historian it nevertheless provides a useful antidote to the Vera Lynn school of history and probes some of the less well-publicised…

Tony Cross: Animal Farm revisited

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[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 30-31] Animal Farm by George Orwell – a 50th anniversary edition. Secker and Warburg, 1995, £14-99. Reviewed by Tony Cross. Farmer Jones is no longer to be found in the Red Lion at Willingdon drowning his sorrows at the expropriation of Manor Farm by his livestock. Expropriations in…

Lezli-An Barrett: Land and Freedom

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[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 29-30] Lezli-An Barrett, director of the film, Business As Usual, takes a critical look at Ken Loach’s Spanish civil war epic. Contemporary Liverpool. An old man, David Carne, suffers a heart attack. En route to the hospital, he dies. Kim, his granddaughter, sorts through his effects and begins…

Sam Baskett: Jack London racist?

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[Socialism Today, No 13, November 1996, p. 33] Dear Socialism Today, I am grateful to Sam Jackson for his letter, in issue No.11, calling attention to Jack London’s disturbing racism even as he acknowledges London’s significant contribution to socialism. London was indeed so far from being a „perfect‘ socialist, however that may be defined, that…

Sam Baskett: Jack London’s Call of Socialism

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[Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 25-28] Sam Baskett looks at the life and work of Jack London, who died 80 years ago this November. Jack London, (1876-1916) was one of the most widely read and highly-paid American writers of his era, at his commercial peak commanding as much as $75,000 per year. His…

Christine Thomas: Rape on Trial

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[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 31-32] Carnal Knowledge – Rape on Trial, by Sue Lees. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1996, £20hbk. Reviewed by Christine Thomas. In August this year Julia Mason endured six days of cross-examination in court by the man who had raped her. Waiving anonymity in order to speak out she said…

David Cameron: East Africa in turmoil

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