Domestic violence affects all cultures and classes, but some communities – black and working class communities in particular – are more visible to the public gaze than others. It is understandable that minority ethnic communities are reluctant to address abuse and violence for fear of fuelling racism further. Read more
The fourth national meeting of Psychology Politics Resistance (PPR) since the network was founded in 1994 took place in Manchester on Saturday 14th July, Bastille Day. The day marked the strong links that have been established between PPR and Asylum magazine. Read more
What is the matter with Mary Jane?
She isn’t sick and she hasn’t a pain
And it’s medication time again
What is the matter with Mary Jane? Read more
Part One November 1997:… I am writing as a 35 year old political activist and officially diagnosed lunatic. I’ve tried (generally I’ve been coerced) several `cures’ ranging from the latest wonder drug, to being hospitalised, but the most effective and liberation one has been my involvement in the Liverpool Dockers Dispute. This also happens to be the politically the most important dispute for at least a decade and probably several decades.
Nineteen seventy one was drawing to a close and I was entering my sixth month as a student nurse. The months since July had begun to shape and mature me. I recall clearly and fondly my maturing but in many respects my adolescence still predominated. The arrival of the next student nurse intake, fresh and breathless from school and full of wonder provided me with the perfect opportunity to show how wise I was in the best schoolboy tradition. It was time to show the new boys the ropes.
There are many pressing and ongoing concerns following the latest Gulf war. The intense media focus on Iraq during the military invasion has quietened down after ‘our troops’ returned home, supposedly victorious over the ‘axes of evil’. We won’t know for many years the full extent of casualties, or the environmental, cultural and economic consequences of the war.
