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Bougainville nurse describes suffering

Bougainville nurse describes suffering By Jim Green WOLLONGONG — Ruby Mirenka, deputy matron of the Arawa General Hospital in Bougainville, addressed a lively meeting here on October 12. Her visit was designed to raise

Can we be ethical without being revolutionary?

How Are We To Live? By Peter Singer Text Publishing. $24.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley It's been one helluva century! No sooner are we free of the placenta than we are sentenced to our role in history. But what does it all

Colin O'Brien

Colin O'Brien Colin O'Brien died in early September. Colin had been an apprentice chef and a member of Resistance and the Socialist Workers Party in Sydney in the early 1980s. He worked in Europe for a number of years before

The drought and the market

The drought and the market From November 1, the drought which has been crippling much of rural Australia will come to the city. The NSW minister for planning has announced mild water restrictions for all households in Sydney.

Sanctions bring Iraq to the brink

By Jennifer Thompson Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears to have lost a desperate gamble. Despite the sickening hypocrisy which portrays Iraqi troops in Iraq as a "threat" and US troops half way around the world as "peacekeepers", the

The long career of a would-be Himmler

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover By Anthony Summers Corgi Paperbacks. 621 pp. $16.95 Reviewed by Sean Lennon J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. Publicly, he was feted

Absorbing, moving tale of modern China

The Blue Kite Directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang Starring Lu Liping, Zhang Wenyao, Chen Xiaoman Mandarin with English subtitles In Sydney at Academy Twin and Walker Cinemas from October 13, followed by interstate screenings

Poem: Fist

Poem: Fist By Connie Frazer Because Grandma grew old twiddling thumbs, hands clasped, eight fingers locked together neat as a carpentry join; thumbs barrelling round and round, over and over

Precepts for Political Activity

Precepts for Political Activity By Ho Chi Minh Consider before you speak Be decisive when you act Be careful when you write Be calm and cautious in critical hours Hold back when you are excited Forget

Boat people: Bolkus moves the goal posts again

By Zanny Begg Minister for immigration Nick Bolkus is considering legislation that would legalise the illegal detention of asylum seekers between 1989 and 1992. The bill would retrospectively deny compensation to around 350 potential

Debate

There are few forums for debate among the left and progressive movements today. There are few publications in which progressive-minded people are able to discuss strategies and expect to be given a fair hearing. Â鶹´«Ã½ is framed around

Subsidised woodchipping: how we pay for forest destruction

Two recent Victorian government audit reports into forestry operations, obtained through Freedom of Information by the Wilderness Society, provide a catalogue of abuse and deception. FENELLA BARRY, of TWS, describes what they reveal.