The following publications are not available in most commercial bookstores, because what the authors have to say makes the rich and powerful uncomfortable. To order, try your nearest progressive bookstore, contact the publishers directly, or write to La Breche, 9 rue de Tunis, 75011 Paris, France tel. (+33 1) 43 67 63 57 fax 43 79 29 61 (English, French and Spanish spoken).
Where no price is given, we suggest you enclose a donation of US$ 10 in any convertible currency to cover the postage costs of the publisher
Health and Structural Adjustment in Nicaragua/La salud y los Ajustes Estructurales en Nicaragua
This 48 page bilingual report documents the advances in health care made under the
Sandinista goverment, and the dramatic decline in public health since the present rightwing government took office. It includes recommendations for a greater involvement of nongovernmental organisations in any new decentralised health care system.
Published in 1995 by the Centre for Information and Advisory Services in Health (CISAS),
Apto. 3297 Managua, Nicaragua, tel/fax (+505) 2/666711 e-mail cisas @nicarao.apc.org
Russia: Economic and Political Shifts
The latest issue of this 76 page English language newsletter includes articles on Chechnya, the Federation of Independent Trades Unions of Russia, and the IMF sponsored "Shock without therapy."
Edited by International Viewpoint correspondent Alexander Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov,
Treprundi 6-46, Moscow, Russia 103001, tel 095/2997739
World Bank/IMF: Enough!
Susan George, Michel Chossudovsky and others analyse the autocracy that is strangling the third world, and present voices from the growing movement to challenge the 'new world order;
Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Also available in French from CADTM, 29 rue Plantin, 1070
Brussels, Belgium]
Les cahiers du féminisme (Feminist Notebooks)
A French-language socialist teminist revue published six times a year. Inspired by the same ideas as International Viewpoint. Issue 71/72 discusses current campaigns to reduce the working week,and asks how this can be done without increasing the fragile and part-time status of many women workers. The difficult relationship between free time and housework is also treated
You can find articles translated from 'cahiers' in this issue of IV.
For a sample issue of Les cahiers du féminisme, send 35 FFr or $5 US to the editors, at 2 rue Richard Lenoir, 93100 Montreil, France
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International Viewpoint, PECI, BP 85, 75522 Paris cedex 11, France