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| Review
Trotsky lives!Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new biography of Leon Trotsky. “Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the political sky,” Service tells us. -> read article... |
| Thailand
Violent repression of "red shirts" in BangkokThis week in Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva’s government revealed its true nature. Two sessions of negotiations with representatives of the “red shirts” quickly broke down. Under pressure from his conservative electoral base, Abhisit still refuses to dissolve the Assembly and to submit his party, the Democrat Party, to the verdict of the ballot box. -> read article... |
| Mexico
Mexican women - then and nowMexican women’s lives — their work, their family life, their educational opportunities, the health care they can expect, their social standing, and political participation — have changed over the hundred years since the Mexican Revolution. The country has gone from being overwhelmingly rural to mainly urban; between 1930 and 2000 average life expectancy rose from 34 to 75 years; the conditions in which women do housework and care for children and the sick — still almost exclusively their responsibility — have changed enormously: the majority have running water, gas for cooking, indoor toilets, and homes with flooring. -> read article... |