R W Apple
Articles by r w apple
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Society
Attica – A Judgment on America
- 10 October 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 October 1971
Forty-four people died in the Attica "riot", most of them in the storming of the prison ordered by the New York State governor, Nelson Rockefeller. The prisoners had taken hostages to press their complaints about overcrowding and inhumane conditions. This was one of
a series of commentaries from America that "Johnny" Apple wrote for the New Statesman around this time – the others were mainly about high
politics. A larger-than-life figure, and a pillar of the New York Times staff for 40 years, Apple died this month aged 71.
Selected by Brian Cathcart
World Affairs
The great shame
- 10 November 2003
Unfinished Business: South Africa, apartheid and truth
Terry Bell, with Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza Verso, 352pp, £19
ISBN 1859845452
Politics
Terrorists don't change their spots
- 19 June 2000
On the eve of Zimbabwe's elections, R W Johnson argues that Robert Mugabe never believed in democracy. He always preferred ruthless intimidation
Politics
For God's sake, grow up!
- 12 June 2000
R W Johnson, an Oxford don for 26 years, explains why he left England: to get away from the national obsession with class and rank
Politics
Colonialism returns to South Africa
- 13 November 1998
To fury from the left, big companies are moving from Johannesburg to London. R W Johnsonexplains the historic implications
