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Marx's London

Marx in London: An Illustrated Guide
By Asa Briggs & John Callow
Published by Lawrence & Wishart, in association with the Marx Memorial Library
Revised edition, 2008
110 pages, 拢8.99

Paraguay: Left wins election, ends one-party rule

Left-wing former bishop Fernando Lugo won Paraguay聮s presidential election on April 20 with 41% of the vote, according to an April 21 AFP report.

Chile: Protests for contraceptive pill

More than 20,000 people marched on April 22 through the streets of Santiago to demonstrate their rejection of the Constitutional Court聮s ruling, which last week banned the distribution of the morning-after pill through the public health care system.

Right-wing revolt threatens Bolivia

聯Bolivia is on the verge of exploding聰, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned on April 21.

West Papuan students protest for sovereignty

Below is an abridged April 22 statement by the Institute for Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights. A statement the following day reported that the seven arrested students had been released.

A lawyer driven by conscience

Watching Brief, reflections on human rights, law, & justice
By Julian Burnside
Scribe Publications
$32.95

Cultural legacy lives on in orchestra

Widely regarded as the greatest living kora player, Toumani Diabete, from Mali, and his 10-piece band drawn from various West African nations 聴 the Symmetric Orchestra 聴 delivered a sublimely engaging two-hour performance on March 12 at the Sydney Opera House.

Haiti: Hunger made in the USA

The early April food riots in Haiti were a product of decades-long neoliberal economic policies foisted on the poverty-stricken nation. Since 2007, prices for a number of essential foods, including rice, rose by about 50%.

Cuban permaculturalist: How Cuba made a 'green revolution'

In the Worldwide Fund for Nature聮s 2007 report, Cuba was the only country listed as having an ecologically sustainable economy. Cuban permaculturalist Roberto Perez recently completed an Australian tour, speaking to over 5000 people, describing how Cuba carried out a 聯green revolution聰 to deal with the dire consequences of the collapse of its main trading partner, the Soviet Union, in the 1990s.