Volume 35, Number 2 - May 1955

Volume 34, Number 2 - May 1955. 46 pages including covers and advertisements. Editor, This Concerns You Arrigan, Robert, A Complete Education Costello, Thomas, Writ on Habeans Corpus Riley, George, Trilogy - The Picture Riley, George, Light Mclarney, James, The Christmas Week Wake McDermott, Michael, Two Poems Curran, Charles, The Stray Fortin, Rene, And Yet You Ask! Mclarney, James, The Howling Wall Mclarney, James, Essential of Variancy Shea, Raymond, Ego Shea, Raymond, Beginnings McDermott, Michael, Shadow Contributor

One More Hole in the Wall: The Lunafil Strikers in Guatemala

[Excerpt] The Coke workers\u27 victory was all the more remarkable given the killings that had decimated the Guatemalan labor movement. Between 1978 and 1984, tens of thousands of Guatemalan civilians were murdered by the Army and its death squads, including hundreds of trade unionists. The Coca-Cola workers\u27 bold action helped break through the curtain of fear left by the massacres, and helped inspire a cautious renewal of union activity. Now the Lunafil workers were following the example of the Coke workers, and no one was quite sure what would happen. Only five unionists had been murdered since the Army allowed a civilian to take office as President in 1986. But the Army was still the real power in the country, and the danger to trade unionists was still very real. A sit-in strike was pushing the boundaries of what would be allowed. So like the Coca-Cola workers, the union at Lunafil was appealing for international support. The events that followed illustrate how crucial support actions by U.S. unionists can be for the heroic struggles of Third World workers. That phone call from Guatemala to New York City ended up helping keep open a hole in the wall that Lunafil\u27s owners built to isolate the strikers. And the Lunafil workers\u27 fight shows the importance of penetrating the walls of distance, language and culture that separate workers and unionists around the world

The Cowl - v.83 - n.13 - Jan 17, 2019

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 83 No. 13 - January 17, 2019. 24 pages

In Times of Crisis: Act!

It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are ‘celebrating’ this anniversary at a time when global capitalism and liberal democracy, the so-called winners of the Cold War struggle between East and West, find themselves in one of the deepest economic and political crises since the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the global turmoil that followed. Perhaps more significantly, however, this is the first crisis that Eastern Europeans are experiencing since their so-called ‘transition’ from a state socialist to a capitalist ideology. What should we make of this transition since 1989? Rather than engaging in a traditional analysis of the winners and losers of this transition, I am interested in what today’s capitalist crisis has perhaps in common with the crisis of state socialism in 1989. I will explore this question by engaging with the German film Good Bye Lenin!

Fifty shades of CHI: the perverse and humiliating human-computer relationship

This paper presents a critical lens on the nature of the relationship between people and contemporary technology. Specifically, the form and language of erotic BDSM romance fiction, a genre that deals specifically with the nature of power in relationships, and which has proved extremely popular recently, are used as a means for provoking reflection on the nature of power in the human-computer relationship. Three sexually explicit scenarios are presented, in which technology is portrayed in a dominant and controlling role, highlighting the often subservient and apologetic nature of human interaction with technology. We suggest that readers offended by graphic and explicit descriptions of sexual behaviour do not read further than this abstract