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
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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
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The Bolivarian Revolution: Enter the Oil Workers!Directed by Selma Jones & Nina LopezProduced by the Bolivarian Circle of the Global Women's StrikeVHS only, $16 (includes postage and handling) REVIEW BY MARGARITA WINDISCH When Hugo Chavez was
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I stand with the people of Fallujahas they try to repel the Yankee murderer.I cry with the children and their mothersas they stare at the bodies of their brothers.I walk through the ruins of their housesand watch while the wives bury spouses. From
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The Polar ExpressWritten and directed by Robert Zemeckis Based on the book by Chris Van AllsburgWith Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola and Nona Gaye REVIEW BY NICOLE HILDER The Polar Express is a tale of Christmas Eve re-education. A mysterious train
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The Trouble with Capitalism: an Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic FailureBy Harry ShuttZed Books, 1998238 pages, $36 (pb) REVIEW BY EVA CHENG Since the worldwide shift to neoliberal policy in the early 1980s, capitalist apologists have
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Tommy Goes CaracasDirected and produced by Aimara RequesCo-produced by Cassandra McGowanFor upcoming screening, contact your local activist centre as listed on page 2, or visit <http://www.resistance.org.au>. REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON
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"Butchered blond woman found with slit throat" cried the Sydney Morning Herald, in blond coloured tears. But the 100,000s of Iraqis who have died are called "insurgents" and it is left at that. I'll stand on a box and shout at the masses of
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and his Backyard Nuclear ReactorBy Ken SilversteinFourth Estate, 2004$29.95 (pb) David Hahn could have been taken for a typical US teenager in the 1990s. He loved driving
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Real GoneTom WaitsAnti-records$29.95 RRP REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON "Writing songs about the war is like throwing peanuts at a gorilla", Tom Waits told the Los Angeles Times in August. "But then I think, look how important soul music was during
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Australian IdolChannel 10Just finishedWith a net annual profit of $76.93 million to crow about, Network Ten's hold on the youth market demographic is sure to continue — at least until it's milked what it can from the recently