Poem: Pleasures
By Walter Jones
Visiting the toilet
To read.
Eating
In company.
Drinking wine.
Good comedy
This newspaper
and
Dialectics.
How pleasing it is
To change the world.
In my need
To
There is freedom.
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Row over banning of magazine
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BRISBANE — The Queensland Department of Consumer Affairs has refused distribution of the December issue of the lifestyle magazine Simply Living. The department has banned the magazine
The power of one
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I do
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Jim McIlroy continues a debate
In the ongoing debate in the pages of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly recently over the question of socialists, the ALP and the working class, it is important to distinguish two separate (but related) questions.
First is
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By Tim E. Stewart
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