Toxic Psychiatry — Drugs and Electroconvulsive Therapy: The Truth and Better Alternatives
By Peter Breggin
Fontana Paperback, 1993. 578 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Scott Robinson
Peter Breggin has practised psychiatry since the 1950s, but
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By Pip Hinman
Widespread popular support for the demands of the Zapatista rebel movement in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas has created a serious political crisis for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government. President
By Jose Gutierrez
Charles Edward Russell was one of the great US correspondents of the 1900s. He wrote for the New York Herald and was the author of several books, including The Uprising of the Many, Lawless Wealth, Songs of Democracy and Why I
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — On January 17, only a week before the start of the school term, the Directorate of School Education finally announced some details on the proposed Richmond coeducational facility.
The announcement was made nearly
By Greg Adamson
CANBERRA — Residents and supporters of Ainslie Village, a low-income accommodation area, have maintained a 24-hour picket since January 16 in protest at hostile management activities. The picket has drawn broad community
A "catastrophic humanitarian situation" exists in the Tuzla region, according to the Bosnian city's mayor, Selim Beslagic. United Nations aid for refugees has been only 19% of what is needed, and the city is regularly shelled by surrounding Serb
Man vs dog
By Brandon Astor Jones
In Butts County, just 50 miles south of Atlanta, sits the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Centre. Today the sun is gently pressing its way through a dense cloud bank high above a hint of morning fog.
By Annolies Truman
SYDNEY — Calls for the formation of an indigenous Australian church, compulsory Aboriginal and Islander studies in theological colleges and the enactment of a "Social Justice Package" to address needs not met by the Native
Supermarkets break trading laws
By Kest Courtice
HOBART — Tasmania's Purity supermarket chain opened all day on Saturday, January 8, contravening Tasmanian law. On the following Saturday, Coles also opened all day.
The Retail
By Jana D.K.
JAKARTA — A series of regulations which permit military intervention in industrial disputes have been revoked by the minister of labour, Abdul Latief, it was reported on January 18. While the move has been welcomed by some, many
LONDON — The High Court on January 13 agreed to Greenpeace and Lancashire County Council's (LCC) request for a judicial review of the British government's decision to license the controversial Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
CLAUDETTE BEGIN and ALEX CHIS are both members of the Committees of Correspondence, a 2000-strong socialist regroupment project in the US. In Australia for the Democratic Socialist Party's annual conference, they spoke to FRANK NOAKES and CATHERINE
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