Monthly Archives: October 2010

Comment: This article by an Australian comrade, Ben Courtice, who hails from Footscray, is so up to the mark and so of the moment that I am going to republish it to ensure that it gets the widest readership possible … Continue reading →

No apologies for republishing another old classic, which is also in my pamphlet collection… First Published: in Komunistka, No. 2, 1920, and in English in The Worker, 1920; Source: Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai, Allison & Busby, 1977; Translated: by Alix Holt. Women’s … Continue reading →

Les voici en direct de la France…Cheb Mami et Susheela Raman en concert ensemble… Je ne parle pas arabe non plus mais, donnez votre coeur au coeur de la musique… Qui ne peut pas dire, en écoutant cette chanson, que … Continue reading →

It occurred to me, while writing my last post on The Female Eunuch, that few people know what commodity fetishism is. It is a term used by Karl Marx, in Chapter 3 of Volume One of Das Kapital. However, since … Continue reading →

The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer, was a literary bomb thrown at patriarchy in 1970 by a libertarian Australian woman. I still have a battered copy. I read it in 1978 and I was a convert! It is angry, courageous, taboo … Continue reading →

Une ignorance profonde, une crédulité sans bornes, une tête très faible, une imagination emportée: voilà les matériaux avec lesquels se font les dévots, les zélés, les fanatiques et les saints. Il serait juste que les grands de la terre et … Continue reading →

  For white English or American readers of this blog, a question. Who went to church this morning? Go on, own up. Nobody? Coming home on the bike I passed the Catholic church on the corner of my block (West … Continue reading →

Spend some time each day with your heart. Walk barefoot on the grass, lie on your back and gaze for an hour at the clouds while your mind grows still; tell someone you love that you love them, remember who … Continue reading →

After hearing a review on Front Row, Radio 4, I look forward to seeing the contemporary art installation exhibition in London by Californian artist James Turrell. He makes art with light. I like the idea of getting completely out of … Continue reading →