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<span style='font-size: 16px;'>Tskhinvali</span>

Tskhinvali

Georgia's War

"On 7th August 2008, President Saakashvili of Georgia launched an all-out military assault on the capital town of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. The town was partly destroyed. Estimates of civilian deaths vary, between fifteen hundred and two thousand. Precise figures may become available quite soon, now that it is possible to recover and bury the dead*. Thirty-four thousand South Ossetians fled to the neighbouring territory of North Ossetia, which is part of the Federal Russian State, and they can all talk. They have been doing so incessantly, telling stories of untrammelled brutality ... "

This is an excerpt from Ken Coates' editorial in the most recent issue of
The Spokesman. Read more about Georgia's War.


*On 28 August 2008, South Ossetia’s Prosecutor General reported that 1,692 deaths
resulted from Tbilisi’s August offensive. ‘We have information of 1,692 dead and 1,500 injured as a result of the Georgian aggression,’ Russian Interfax news agency quoted Teimuraz Khugayev as saying.


<span style='font-size: 16px;'>Our Blog</span>

Our Blog

Find out what we're up to at Spokesman Books.

November 2008
Ending War: A Recipe by Robert Hinde - One of our latest publications.

October 2008
Mark Steel - Kick starts the Tom Paine Bi-centenary Festival

Community Development Journal Seminar - On Friday 10th October 2008. The panel includes Tony Benn.

Truth and War - John Pilger in the New Statesman



September 2008
The Convention of the Left - Saturday 20th to Wednesday 24th September 2008

Tskhinvali: Shock and Awe considers the war in Georgia. Ken Coates' editorial from this most recent issue of our journal can be read here



August 2008
No More Hiroshimas - It is 63 years since the first atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


July 2008
Tom Paine on Radio 4 - Trevor Griffiths's screenplay broadcast on Radio 4, Saturday 26th July and Saturday 2nd August. Read the discussions about the broadcast on Radio 4's Message Boards.


June 2008
New Labour's Attack on Public Services by Dexter Whitfield has been reviewed by Mike Tolochko for the Monthly Journal of the CP-USA.

The Spokesman has reached ISSUE NUMBER 100 - read the contents of this bumper issue here.

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<span style='font-size: 16px;'>About Us </span>

About Us

We publish in many areas including politics, peace and disarmament, history, drama and philosophy. Use the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen to explore our site. The links will take you to our authors who include Bertrand Russell, Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, Ken Coates, John le Carré, Naomi Klein, Tony Benn and Trevor Griffiths.

Our quarterly journal, The Spokesman - Tskhinvali: Shock and Awe considers the war in Georgia.


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