Cultural dissent

Blair Unbound

By Anthony Seldon (with Peter Snowdon & Daniel Collings)

Simon & Schuster, 2008

669 pages, Paperback $29.95

Fidel Castro — Looks at Castro's early life as the son of a wealthy landowner, a Jesuit student, and as a young rebel lawyer who led the Cuban people to revolution. SBS, Friday. November 28, 1.30pm.

Lionel Rose — In 1968, a young Aboriginal

Summer of Love - Looks at the hippy district of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury during the summer of 1967, which had utopian beginnings born of idealistic youths who'd grown up with post-WWII affluence but were now dealing with Vietnam, racism, and

NAISDA Dreaming — Follows a group of young Indigenous dance students as their classroom is moved from urban studios to the bush and red earth of a remote homeland in northeast Arnhem Land. ABC, Sunday, November 16, 1.30pm.

Haditha: The Rules of

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture & Health

Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins

Monthly Review Press, 2007

390 pages, US$22.95

Available from

The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything

By Tim Harford

Little Brown, 2008

264 pages, $35

Mister President — Examines the film and television phenomenon that has made "stars" of the men and women who work in the Oval Office. SBS, Friday, October 31, 7.30pm.

Dateline — Reports on some of the key battleground US states, and whether

Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality

By Loretta Napoleoni

Allen & Unwin, 2008

292 pages, $29.95 (pb)

Mahmoud Darwish, the iconic Palestinian poet passed away on 9 August in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67 following unsuccessful heart bypass surgery. "Identity Card", was published in his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Olives published in

The Bright Lights of America

Anti-Flag

Fat Wreck Chords, 2008

13 tracks, $29.99

Tibet: A precious Human Life

By Damon Annison

Distributed by Brumby Books,
$35 (pb)

Gagadju: Timeless Land — Describes how Bininj and Mungguy cultures and customary laws underpin all tourism decisions in Kakadu. ABC, Sunday, September 14, 1.30pm.

The Russian Revolution in Colour: Freedom and Hope — Explores the first four

Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion & Propaganda in the Global Media

By Nick Davies

Chatto & Windus, 2008

408 pages, $54.95 (hb)

Love War & Peace

Featuring the Sydney Soloists

September 1, 7pm, Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Tickets $25

Bookings http://www.cityrecitalhall.com or (02) 8256 2223

Rod Quantock marks his 40 years in comedy in his latest show, "First Man Standing" running until September 6 at Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton. In the "year of revolutions", 1968, Quantock told his first jokes to an audience and

On “Super Saturday” August 16, hundreds of activists across NSW will staff “Stop the Sell-Off” stalls in 50 NSW electorates. Part of the campaign to stop the state ALP government from privatising electricity, the stalls are expected to gather thousands of signatures on petitions, and promote the mass anti-privatisation rally planned for September 20, at Sydney Town Hall.

Charlie Wilson’s War

Directed by Mike Nichols

Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

With Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman

On video & DVD

The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings

By Robert Fisk

Fourth Estate, 2008

522 pages, $30 (pb)

The Gruen Transfer

Wednesdays, 9pm, ABC

All Governments Lie! The Life & Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone

By Myra Macpherson

Scribner, 2008

564 pp, $29 (pb)

David Rovics has been described as the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. In this interview with Green Left Weekly’s Matt Clark, he explains his motivations, his influences and his take on politics today.

‘Last Drinks: the impact of the Northern Territory intervention’, by Paul Toohey

Quarterly Essay, Issue 30, June 2008

Black Inc., $15.95

Embassy Days: Pt 2 — Follows the confrontations in Canberra in 1972 that gave birth to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the evolution of the Aboriginal land rights movement. ABC, Friday, June 20, 6pm.

Goodbye Lenin! — October, 1989 was a bad

Ningla a-Na

Produced & directed by Fabio & Alessandro Cavadini

Distributed by Smart Street Films

Screening by the Inner West Film Fanatics, Petersham Bowling Club, June 24, 7.00pm

http://www.thepbc.org.au or email innerwestfilmfanatics@yahoo.com.au

The Empire’s New Clothes

CD performed by Phil Monsour

13 tracks, $26

CD available from http://www.philmonsour.com

Christy Moore is a powerful vocalist, song interpreter, and a passionately political person and performer. To many he may be simply a folk singer, but Moore is a voice for the voiceless.

The Whale Warriors: On Board a Pirate Ship in the Battle to Save the World’s Largest Mammals

By Peter Heller

HarperCollins, 2007

303pages, $28 (pb)

Cuba: How the Workers & Peasants Made the Revolution

By Chris Slee

Resistance Books, 2008

55pages, $6.00(pb)

Available from <http://www.resistancebooks.com>

10,000 B.C.

Directed by Roland Emmerich

With Omar Sharif, Camilla Belle & Steven Strait

Widely regarded as the greatest living kora player, Toumani Diabete, from Mali, and his 10-piece band drawn from various West African nations — the Symmetric Orchestra — delivered a sublimely engaging two-hour performance on March 12 at the Sydney Opera House.