Books

WINSTON Churchill once famously said that democracy was a very imperfect system of government, but that, so far, it's the best that there is.

LOUISE NOUSRATPOUR learns how a class-conscious campaign for equal rights for women could be born out of the Stop the War Coalition.

THE Weather Underground Organisation (WUO) never deployed suicide bombers, but it killed more of its own cadres than any perceived enemy during the course of its 1969-76 war against the US government.

AT THE age of 90, the author feels too old to take a puppy for a bounding walk in the park, but enjoys gardening until her bones ache. Walking is painful and so her car represents her freedom.

THE eternal flames that erupt from the rocks in the Caspian region give an eerie backdrop to Dilip Hiro's book on oil.

A BOOK that "uncovers the secret history" of the PR industry sounds a must for anyone interested in what used to be termed "propaganda."
Sadly, David Miller, who edited the fantastic Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq, and William Dinan's critique of spin and spinners, doesn't quite hit the mark.

JOHN GREEN goes in search of the big-business culprits who are killing our industry, community, traditions and identity.

STEVE ANDREW warns that the lightning growth of US fundamentalist Christianity should not be ignored.

THIS penetrating study of the oppression and terrorism suffered by the Palestinians in the first half of the last century first came out in 1978 and is now being republished by Zed Books. It retains its freshness and relevance to their situation today.

WHEN Juan Carlos Onetti wrote this book some 30 years ago, he was coming to terms with exile from Argentina, which followed his imprisonment, itself a consequence of the murderous "regime changes" run by the US across Latin America.