Tag: Venezuela
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Bolivar circles
There were around 20 of us – we’d come along to this month’s Left in the Cinema in Hastings. We’d just watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, to remind ourselves of some of the history of Venezuela. Now, the film was done, and we gathered in a circle to discuss it. We weren’t all…
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What do you think about International Law?
What is International Law, and why was it established? Formalised by organisations like the United Nations, the purpose of International Law was initially to make trade deals between states workable but, and this is what interests me, also to protect us, the people of the world, from rogue governments. It is supposed to force states…
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But what can we dooooooo?
On Sunday, wondering what on earth we could do about the terrible events in the world in the last few days, I listened in to an emergency rally for Venezuela, hosted by the VSC, with attendees from the main anti-war groups and other organisations, such as trade unions. There were 500 in the zoom, and…
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A shameful day for the English
One of the ironies of any work in publishing and the book trade is that, because your work involves a lot of reading, you’re always at least a decade behind on what ‘everyone’ has read. That’s why, now the book-work is down to a minimum, I like doing my occasional series of ‘reviews of old…
Kay Green 