Schlagwort: Socialism Today
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Christine Thomas: Another Moral Panic
[Socialism Today, No 16, March 1997, p. 9] ‚Working mums damage children’s education‘ screamed the media headlines. ‚Flawed research causes working mums‘ guilt trip‘ would have been more to the point. Based on research from the University of North London, Panorama claimed that the children of full-time working mums are failing exams. At almost the…
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David Cameron: Zaire: Mobutu on the Brink
[Socialism Today, No 18, May 1997, p. 21-24] Seven months after the outbreak of the rebellion in Eastern Zaire, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of the Congo (Zaire), led by Laurent Kabila, is on the verge of power. David Cameron writes. The seven-month campaign by Laurent Kabila has taken his Alliance forces…
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Elaine Brunskill: Abortion rights: 30 years on
[Socialism Today, No 23, November 1997, p. 8-9] The decriminalisation of abortion, which took place thirty years ago this month, was an enormous step forward for women. The 1967 Abortion Act was the first in a series of reforms such as the equal pay and sex discrimination legislation. These gains were made by women who…
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Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?
[Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 22-24] Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRD suffered its worst electoral defeat in 68 years on 6 July when it lost its overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Not only that but the left-centre PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) replaced the right wing PAN (National Action…
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Niall Mulholland: Bombs Hit Mid-East ‚Peace‘
[Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 6-8] On 30 July two Palestinians strapped high explosives to their bodies and detonated themselves in Jerusalem’s crowded Manhaneh Yehuda street market. Fourteen people were killed as a result. “The Israeli response was typically swift and brutal.” The Israeli response was typically swift, brutal and indiscriminate. A total…
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Margaret Creear: No child of mine
[Socialism Today, No 17, April 1996, p. 6-7] The recent TV documentary-drama, No child of mine, was a sensitive and careful attempt to portray the character of child abuse. The story of Kerry, sexually abused from early childhood, was set against a background of ‘normality’, a middle-class household not a single-parent family on a run-down…
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Mike Waddington: Truths about Churchill
[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…
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Tony Cross: Animal Farm revisited
[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…
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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…