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1. Imperialism, El Nino and the Third World

   Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World By Mike Davis Verso ... 2002 464 pages, $48 REVIEWED BY DAVE RILEY While drought is considered a natural phenomenon, famine is ... changing nowadays but linking meteorological events to the level of imperialist expansionism is something ...

2. The Queensland Greens: suckers or sinners?

   By Dave Riley BRISBANE — When the ALP lost office in Queensland in the aftermath of the ... tragic consequence of the Green Party strategy to 'teach Labor a lesson' is that it has brought ... about the election of a National Party-led government". In the inner-urban left ghetto of West End, ...

3. Write on: letters to the editor

   hunt", GLW, June 5, there is a major inaccuracy and presumption of a supposed homogeneity of gay and ... Cobden and ownership of the gay paper the Sydney Star Observer which supports his cause. Rationally, just ... openly gay man and a survivor of organised pedophile activity, I have been to the Royal Commission to ...

4. The present pursues a past future

   York: Plenum Press, 320 pp Reviewed by Dave Riley Psychological theories are eminently political. ... ourselves, our expectations, how we treat others, how we comprehend the causes of personal problems, what ... kinds of solutions we believe are possible and the public policies we endorse are mixed up with our ...

5. Isolation from workers: the real prison for the left

   connotations. (2) The formation of something like the New Zealand Alliance is not an alternative to ... identified the key problem for the socialist movement as being the isolation of socialists from the necessary ... agency of socialism — the working class. This problem must be acutely felt by socialists in the United ...

6. Cabaret: When Voltaire met the Black Cat

   By Dave Riley Cabaret in popular usage generally conjures up visions of strip joints, sleazy bars ... strolling players and the like. In the late 19th century, the song or chanson became the major form of ... images the film Cabaret added the grim aura of decadence matched with a sentimental fondness for ...

7. Denis Leary: militant mirth marauder

   No Cure For Cancer By Denis Leary Picador. 133 pp., $12.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley My sister runs ... her household like an amusement parlour. When you visit, you have to speak over the television, which ... They don't write songs like that any more: "Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces/ While ...

8. A bridge worth crossing

   $12.95 (pb) Reviewed by Dave Riley William Morris was an extraordinary man. Today, a year short of the ... past to translating what a future socialist society might be like. Like so much of Morris' ... writing, stories like News From Nowhere hark back to the rural society of the Middle Ages: "England ...

9. End ties with the Indonesian dictatorship!

   — foundations like the constitutional right of the army to intervene in politics and the outlawing of parties ... the dictatorship doesn't like. The overwhelming majority of Indonesians are clearly demonstrating ... national coordinator); Peter Riley (Industrial Workers of the World); Lisa Macdonald (91������̳ Weekly); ...

10. Ireland: Blair, loyalists stall peace

    media commentators like to present it, the Blair government has chosen to remain in the role of colonial ... By Dave Riley The Northern Ireland peace process is in great jeopardy following the expulsion from ... political negotiations of Sinn Féin, which represents more than 40% of nationalist opinion in the Six ...

11. Is biology destiny?

    of DNA, like that of Darwinism, reproduces nature not the way it is, but as it is viewed through the ... The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as ideology By R.C. Lewontin Penguin Books. 128 pp. $14.95 Reviewed ... by Dave Riley The definitive answer to how much you could drink and still feel good about it was ...

12. The so-called gay gene

    By Dave Riley There are many human conditions that are clearly pathological which seem to have ... the relevant mutant gene regardless of diet, occupation, social class, or education. While such ... conditions are rare — 1 in 10,000 for Huntington's disease — other disorders, like sickle cell anaemia ...

13. Goss pushes tollway despite opposition

    "Democracy is dying. The accountability that Goss promised in 1989 is history. It's just like Son of ... By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Despite the biggest anti-government rallies since Labor came to power in ... Queensland, the controversial South Coast Motorway is to be built. Expressions of interest will be sought from ...

14. Love, lust and pain

    a water melon. They lied. It's like excreting a block of flats... " This third sentence ... Picador, 280 pp, $14.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Ben Elton, in full flight, is a gab feast. Elton, aka ... "motor mouth", by trade is a stand up comic, one of Britain's most successful. Those familiar ...

15. Peace agreement legitimises partition

    By Dave Riley The recently concluded Irish peace deal has not been received enthusiastically ... — despite media claims to the contrary. The Loyal Orange Lodge has rejected it out of hand, and the main ... seems to have a point. Even the conservative voice of nationalist capitalism, the Sunday Business Post, ...

16. “We have a political culture that is very shallow” — Interview with Greens candidate Jonathan Sri

    really interested in the political sphere were things like Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and ... listening to bands like The Cat Empire and some of their stuff was a bit political. I went to Woodford Folk ... idea of control and the government knows what’s best. We’ll tell you how to live and if you don’t like ...

17. What's behind the medical insurance crisis?

    BY DAVE RILEY At the heart of the current medical insurance crisis is the private health-care ... Association and the Royal College of Surgeons are dedicated to propping up “free enterprise” medicine, there ... saving? If the doctors get the nod, then why not some others as well — like the electrical contractor or ...

18. Write on: Letters to the editor

    shooting dead an unarmed foreign combatant would also be highly likely to oppose the invasion of a largely ... Palestine Members of Socialist Alliance have every reason to be proud of Kim Bullimore and Rihab ... Charida who have left the safety of Sydney to enter the most dangerous regions of the Middle East to ...

19. Write on: letters to the editor

    a genuine appreciation of what is needed today. Those who would ignore it are sure to relive it. Dave Riley ... mine. GLW readers might like to emphasise to the media, including GLW, the real name and nature of the ... faults of the ALP was the failure of its members to publicly criticise obnoxious policies like financial ...

20. Write On: Letters to 91������̳ Weekly

    program are secondary issues. By that criteria, the purveyors of closed caucus politics seem like so many ... view of the future of the Socialist Alliance, Alison Thorne argues that the SA cannot become a vehicle ... for regroupment of the socialist left into a united, multi-tendency, socialist party because ...

21. Write on: letters to the editor

    as its backbone. Through its pages, some people (like myself) have discovered their first source of ... Riley Brisbane [Abridged.] Immigration I am appalled at the harshness of Pauline Hanson's ... he thinks that we should plug away inside the ALP like he does. Martin overlooks the ALP's ...

22. Becoming human: a user's guide

    by Dave Riley When Charles Darwin synthesised the biological knowledge of the 19th century into ... transition from ape-like creature to human being, much more was involved than the advance of nature alone. ... of the pelvis, led to a qualitatively different product — one that was both of nature and other than ...

23. 'You can't build anything without enthusiasm'

    By Dave Riley Norma Nord joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1937. "I was a terribly ... I didn't like the churches, I thought they may have something to stimulate my ideas. "I bought a copy ... of the Worker's Weekly because I was just getting involved in the peace movement. I found out ...

24. The people's court jester

    The Tricks of the Trade By Dario Fo Methuen. 224 pp., $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Acting is ... achievements of the past. As he likes to quote the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci: "If you do not know ... taken so much for granted. So much of the culture we enjoy now depends on the ability of individuals to ...

25. Brisbane faces public transport choices

    and jobs. However, the city of Brisbane is likely to grow at a much slower rate than its surrounding ... bulk of the residential growth is likely to be focused in the nearby shires of Pine Rivers to the ... By Dave Riley BRISBANE — In June 1990 there were 1.3 million people living in the Brisbane region. ...

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