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  1. Write on

    that, like the judges of the Miles Franklin Award, he is not aware of the basic facts of Modern European ... Riley is more accurate when he claims that the ISO suffers from "Cominternism". However, ... during the first five years of the original Comintern the "interference" of Lenin and Trotsky ...

  2. Write on: Letters to the editor

    exports are in the national interests of the major industrial powers like the United States, Japan, ... without concern for the needs of future generations is like selling the roof off your house sheet by sheet ... the word "Rent" could be used to replace words like "Tax" and "taxation" ...

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    on perusing Dave Riley's (GLW #163) vitriolic confusing review of the same, leaves the distinct ... demands like adequate funding for refuges, equal pay for women, decriminalisation of abortion and so on. ... Telephone typewriter There has been a drastic reduction in the service of the TTY (telephone ...

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    possibilities outside the ALP can only lead to disaster (e.g. the drift of preferences). Socialists should ... It is Bolsheviks like us who are spreading the message 鈥 others unfortunately need to do more ... 7) only gets it partly right. Regardless of what 91自拍论坛 Weekly comes up with, the most important ...

  5. 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 mean? Did God make us 鈥 in the words of my childhood catechism 鈥 "to ...

  6. Georges calls for return to ALP

    became a major voice of the party's left wing. But Georges also distinguished himself as an activist ... years; he is a leader of the peace and nuclear disarmament movement, active in trade union struggles such ... has recently rejoined the ALP. DAVE RILEY interviewed him for 91自拍论坛 Weekly on what prompted him ...

  7. Write on: letters to the editor

    excellent review of "Michael Collins"in GLW #259, and found that like me he saw this film as ... the fact that Zedillo forwarded the "counter proposal" at all was a violation of the terms ... of the peace process. In sum there is an official government negotiating team (COCOPA), the EZLN ...

  8. From Moratorium to socialism

    By Dave Riley When I left school at the end of 1966 I had two passions 鈥 theatre and politics. But ... the spectre of communism was our substitute for social studies. We were taught to be rabidly ... Santamaria drew together a coalition of right-wing forces to combat the emerging youth radicalisation. With ...

  9. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    it? Dave Riley Brisbane NPT violation At the end of his article "China, India: end all uranium ... Save Che! According to the front page of the April 5 Blue Mountains Gazette, the Blue Mountains ... City Council (BMCC) is attempting to force the owners of a Wentworth Falls private dwelling to destroy ...

  10. Write on: letters to the editor

    Oslo It was said that the Oslo Accord(s) will ease the everyday situation of the Palestinians. ... However, the Palestinians are not fighting to see everyday life eased, but for the end of Zionist ... occupation, for the right of return and for the establishment of the independent State of Palestine. Israel ...

  11. Is there life after work?

    it. Tourism is like that. Aided by Kodacolor, the uniqueness of the experience, compared to the ... By Dave Riley If you are considering taking up leisure as a career move, try this exercise: go ... home, put your feet up and rest. As each wave of relaxation wafts over you 鈥 as the days and then the ...

  12. Write on: letters to the editor

    Popular Front 鈥 the vast majority of which was committed to non-violence 鈥 never achieved a majority. Its ... largest vote was 44% in 1973. By 1975, when Pinochet finally won over enough of the military to mount ... As an Australian of Anglo-Irish descent, some of whose ancestors, the Lees, left Cork in the potato ...

  13. Bertolt Brecht: the man who never was

    political allegiance has annoyed the critics no end. Some, like John Willet 鈥 the author of many books on ... The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht By John Fuegi Harper Collins. 732 pp., $39.95, (hb) Reviewed ... by Dave Riley As the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, word went out that this action drew on the ...

  14. Write on: Letters to the editor

    the left to present a censored caricature of him, which still persists. If you like Bob, I'll ... China and Che In GLW #328, Bob Saltis is critical of Eva Cheng's support for ... "workers' democracy" in GLW #315. It is a pity that Bob, who is president of the Cuba Friendship ...

  15. A bad time for satire

    Age and Guile (beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut): 25 Years of P.J. O'Rourke By ... P.J.O'Rourke Picador (pb), $14.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley All you classical scholars out there will know that ... satire has been around for quite some time. What with Petronious Arbiter (drinking companion of the Roman ...

  16. Write on: letters to the editor

    Northern Ireland Dave Riley's article "Sinn Fein Says Yes" (GLW #318) misses the ... the presence of British troops in Northern Ireland, and (b) the cooption of the Protestant section of ... a system of institutionalised discrimination, in which Protestant workers have had relatively privileged ...

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    like the governor of the state of Georgia and prison administrators that lifted the ban. The lesson to ... writing ban that prohibited all of Georgia's prisoners from writing letters to our contacts, friends ... be learned is that we must not quietly stand by in the face of bureaucratic terror; and that ...

  18. Greg Palast 鈥 investigative reporter gets personal

    deck looking extraordinarily like Ham, the first chimp in space.鈥欌 Palast shows his hatred of career ... crime investigator, who exposed the 2000 and 2004 elections of George W Bush as frauds, has gone for ... Early on in the book, he recounts a typically tickling episode in which he tries to down a bottle of ...

  19. Keating pulls a fast one on land rights

    uncertainty about land titles issued after 1975. One of the delegation, Rob Riley from the WA Aboriginal Legal ... of the Mabo decision. On the strength of written assurances from Keating and his special minister for ... that have been discussed. You have been provided with a copy of the advice of the Acting Commonwealth ...

  20. The Gurindji strike and land claim

    audiences by the help and ideas of Frank Hardy... and other white advisers, it seems likely that the idea of ... In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave ... dispute. This had the immediate effect of challenging the Australian labour movement to address its ...

  21. Lucas Heights reactor from 'Dodgy brothers'

    would fear the consequences of a despot like Mugabe attaining such powerful nuclear capabilities", ... company contracted to build a nuclear reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights. Statements ... by Raul Montenegro, professor of evolutionary biology at the National University of Cordoba and ...

  22. Write On: Letters to 91自拍论坛 Weekly

    #545), sounds like a defender of South Africa during its apartheid years. From my reading, there is no ... arguing their cases in support of Eminem, Dave Riley (GLW #544) and Ben Standing (GLW #543) attempt to ... hatred of Israel in the pages of GLW. Kimberly James Roachelle can write about the great society she ...

  23. 'Industrial cuisine' and the 'traditional diet'

    at home! But like preparing the humble bean, this takes time. The joys of more labour-intensive forms ... By Dave Riley There is perhaps nothing so intimate as the food we put in our mouths. In our ... society each morsel is personalised by an involved process of selection and preparation reproduced in ...

  24. Write On: Letters to 91自拍论坛 Weekly

    #544) are a very clear-cut case of ignoring those aspects of Zionist history and its dispossession of ... the Palestinians that conflict with her idealistic illusions about Israel. She would like the readers ... of GLW to accept her erroneous belief that "if only the Palestinian Arabs were committed to ...

  25. Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right

    shot crocodiles and lived the life of Riley. In his book New Guinea Patrol, Martin Kerr writes that to ... Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right The rise of the virulently racist ... Hanson's bigoted outpourings with kid gloves, 91自拍论坛 of big business prepared for its own purposes to ...

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