Schlagwort: 1996
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Andrea Enisuoh: Why does education fail black youth?
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 33] Recent research on the achievements of ethnic minority pupils, by David Gillborn and Caroline Gipps. HMSO, 1996, £9-95. Reviewed by Andrea Enisuoh. The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) have released their review: Recent Research into the Achievements of Ethnic Minority Pupils. Spanning a period of major…
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Clare Wilkins: New attacks on abortion
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 30-31] Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by Janet Hadley. Virago, 1990. Reviewed by Clare Wilkins Anti-abortion MPs are planning another attack on the provisions of the 1967 Abortion Act and the present 24-week time limit on abortion. This follows a summer of intense media interest in aspects of…
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Naomi Byron: Burundi Killing Fields
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 10] The killing continues in Burundi. After three years of ‘low-level’ civil war in which around 150,000 have died, the country is slipping towards full-scale genocide. The latest cycle of violence began with the massacre of 350 Tutsis on 20 July at Bugendena, by Hutu militias. Less than…
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Clare Doyle: Bitter defeat for Russian army
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 8-9] ‘The war is over!’ claimed Alexander Lebed, Russia’s security chief, as he emerged from talks with Chechen fighters’ leader, Aslan Maskhadov, on August 31. But had a formula really been found to end 20 months of savage fighting over Chechen independence? All federal combat troops were to…
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Tony Saunois: EZLN meeting hits wrong notes
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 7-8] Thousands of delegates assembled from all over the world in Chiapas this summer to take part in the international conference against neo-liberalism called by Mexico’s Zapatista guerillas (EZLN). The assembly took place at the same time as the leaders of the official Left in Latin America were…
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Socialism Today: Clinton’s futile barbarism
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 2-5] Seizing the opportunity created by the blunders of US imperialism and fighting between rival Kurdish factions, Saddam Hussein has effectively taken back control of northern Iraq. The UN-sponsored ‘safe haven’ is now controlled by Saddam’s new allies, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Barzani. This is…
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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…