Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican RevolutionBy Frank McLynnPimlico, 2001459 pages, $38 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It was an extraordinary moment in Mexico's history. In elegant teahouses in Mexico City, startled young waitresses
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Share ownership
Alison Dellit (GLW #474) is correct to highlight Mark Latham's proposal to subsidise first share purchases.
Latham's scheme would be available to people on twice the median taxable income and, unless regulations prevented it,
Excerpts from a December 31 statement issued by Farooq Tariq, general secretary of Labour Party Pakistan:
A real war could erupt between the two nuclear powers, Pakistan and India ... both countries are speaking the war language ... initial steps
BY NORM DIXON
At every turn since the fall of Kabul and Kandahar, Washington has justified its prolonged bombing and steadily increased military presence in Afghanistan and surrounding countries with claims that the US military's sophisticated
Holy War Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin LadenBy Peter L. BergenWeidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001$29.95
REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE
Despite serious limitations, Peter Bergen's Holy War Inc. is a useful biography of Osama bin Laden. While Bergen
Last year the governmentCreated 6.8 million secretsRoughly the same numberAs the previous yearBut that doesn't take into accountThe effects of the warSaid an annual reportIssued yesterday
I promised I would never tellBut they cut offA man's balls
BY SARAH CLEARY
HOBART — Abortion services suspended in Tasmanian public hospitals in November 2001 have not yet resumed, despite a pre-Christmas emergency sitting of state parliament to resolve the crisis.
The services were withdrawn following
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Immigration minister Philip Ruddock takes great offence at the labeling of Australia's refugee policy as racist and discriminatory. In particular, Ruddock takes offence at criticism of the government's crackdown on people trying to
BY EVA CHENG
Riding on the back of US President George Bush's "war on terrorism", the Hindu fundamentalist Indian regime led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's military dictator General Pervez Musharraf are massing troops along
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — On December 17 the Hobart City Council denied a permit for the sale of Green Left Weekly in Elizabeth Street Mall. It was the third time the council had denied such a permit in little over three weeks.
The council
Green Left Weekly's SARAH STEPHEN spoke to TAFADZWA CHOTO, national coordinator of Zimbabwe's International Socialist Organisation, about the issue of HIV/AIDS when she was in Australia in October.
Zimbabwe has the highest level of HIV infection
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — Human rights organisations and the Mexican left have long argued that more than 600 political activists were detained by government security forces from the late 1960s to the 1990s and never heard from again. Many
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