Ice RoadBy Gillian SlovoLittle, Brown, 2004544 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
On the first day of December, 1934, Leonid Nikolayev brought the crisis of the Russian Revolution to a head. Nikolayev, an idealistic communist disillusioned
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Songs for MahmudDavid Rovics$25 from Hobart Activist Centre, phone (03) 6234 6397 or $US12 from <http://www.davidrovics.com>.
REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
Like the other CDs David Rovics has released in the last few years, Songs for Mahmud
Fortress Europe: Out they Go — With Europe tightening its refugee policy and border control causing thousands of deaths, human rights are in jeopardy and international law is being violated. SBS, Monday, December 20, 1.55pm.
Chiefs: Sitting Bull
The Origins of the ALP: A Marxist AnalysisBy Jim McIlroyResistance Books, 200458 pages, $5.95Available from your local Activist Centre (see page 2) or email <info@resistancebooks.com>
REVIEW BY CHRIS ATKINSON
The further 2.4% swing to
Christmas in East TimorSt Cecilia's Choir, DiliMary McKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies$20, plus postage and handling. To order, phone (02) 9623 2847 or visit <http://www.mmiets.org.au>.
REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN
The Mary
Patrick Cockburn has been an invaluable source of information for anyone wanting to know what is going on in Iraq. As a correspondent for Britain's Independent newspaper, he has written regular reports from Iraq throughout the occupation. In
Dick Nichols
The Eighth Congress of Cuba's Union of Communist Youth (UJC) took place in Havana's Convention Centre, on December 3-6. At the centre of discussion was the Battle of Ideas: the campaign of cultural, educational and social work launched
Fred Fuentes
Writing in the Miami Herald, the day after Bolivia's December 5 municipal elections, Tyler Bridges commented: "Bolivians overwhelmingly rejected their traditional political parties in electing 327 mayors ... with the Movement Towards
The Socialist Alliance has joined the call for the dropping of all charges against four people accused of helping asylum seekers who had escaped from detention to obtain false passports so they could get to a country that would offer them protection.
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
Israeli occupation forces detained over 40 Israeli peace activists and arrested four at the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, on December 7. The activists were arrested as they took part in a non-violent solidarity