Photo by Régis Martin/KrimagesFrench people against the bomb
Opposition to the resumption of French nuclear tests continues to rise, in France itself and in its "overseas territories and departments" (colonies). Here we provide coverage of
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Write on: letters to the editorArrighi
On reading Jonathan Strauss' stimulating review of Giovanni Arrighi's latest book, The Long Twentieth Century (GLW #203), the question that springs to mind is: who are Arrighi's main influences? Certainly,
The Serge-Trotsky Papers: Correspondence and Other Writings between Victor Serge and Leon TrotskyEdited by David CotterillPluto Press, 1994. 275 pp., $44.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Victor Serge and Leon Trotsky, two of the most outstanding and
By Sujatha Fernandes
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You walk into uni
faced with angry posters
calling on subdued students to rally.
"No fees for degrees
in overcrowded
underfunded universities."
"Fees are bad for all
— worse for women."
In the lift
— packed to capacity —
no one is smiling.
You jerk as someone steps on you.
You are suffocating.
You drop off those books
and go back down again.
Same story with the lift.
You walk into uni
faced with angry posters
calling on subdued students to rally.
"No fees for degrees
in overcrowded
underfunded universities."
"Fees are bad for all
— worse for women."
In the lift
— packed to capacity —
no one is smiling.
You jerk as someone steps on you.
You are suffocating.
You drop off those books
and go back down again.
Same story with the lift.
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