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Lezli-An Barrett: Land and Freedom
[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…
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Sam Baskett: Jack London racist?
[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…
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Sam Baskett: Jack London’s Call of Socialism
[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…
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Christine Thomas: Rape on Trial
[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…
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David Cameron: East Africa in turmoil
[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 2-3] The crisis simmering in Zaire for two years has finally come to a head. In 1994, with the victory of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front in neighbouring Rwanda, the ex-Rwandan army and Interahamwe militias, who were responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis, fled…
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Phil Hearse: Nicaragua: ‚privilege restored‘
[Socialism Today, No 14, December 1996, p. 3-4] Alemán’s victory presages a period of sharp struggle over the demands of the dispossessed rich. October’s Nicaraguan presidential elections brought right wing candidate Arnoldo Alemán, the mayor of Managua, to power. Alemán, who leads the Liberal Alliance – a grouping based on the Liberal Party of former…
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Christine Thomas: Tomorrow’s Women?
[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1998, p. 31-32] Tomorrow’s Women, by Helen Wilkinson and Melanie Howard. Demos, 1997, £9-95. Reviewed by Christine Thomas. What kind of woman will predominate in the year 2010? Networking Naomi with her high powered job in a newly feminised work environment? Or New Age Angela, who has status and wealth…
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Tony Saunois: Kabila and Crocodile Shoes
[Socialism Today, No 19, June 1998, p. 5] The overthrow of Mobutu in the renamed Congo by the forces of Laurent Kabila has undoubtedly been seen as a victory in defeating a ruthless and corrupt dictatorship. French imperialism is lamenting its loss of influence to the US, which recently gave its backing to the Congo’s…
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Geoff Jones: Genetic Politics
[Socialism Today, No 25, February 1998, p. 30] The Doctrine of DNA, by RC Lewontin. Penguin Books, £5-95. Reviewed by Geoff Jones. The recently announced plans for human cloning by US scientist Richard Seed once again provoked widespread media comment on the role of genetics in determining human development. In fact, although a person’s genes…
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Diane Stokes: Mother Teresa revealed
[Socialism Today, No 25, February 1998, p. 29] The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens. Verso, 1995. Reviewed by Diane Stokes. The death of Mother Teresa last September was overshadowed by the death five days before of Princess Diana. Yet the octogenarian „missionary‘, representing medieval values, was every much an…