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Activist guide to workers' revolution The State and RevolutionBy Vladimir Ilyich LeninResistance Books, 1999108pp, $8.50 rrp Reviewed by Susan Price They say you should never judge a book by its cover. But the contemporary format of this newly

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A wake for the Brisbane Resistance CentreBRISBANE — On April 1, Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and Resistance members and supporters held a wake for the Resistance Centre in Terrace Street, New Farm, in which the

The University of Wisconsin Madison (UW-M) in the United States is hosting a conference on hip hop music and culture from April 14-16. "The conference is meant to empower youth of all backgrounds and those willing to advance their

No Border, No Cry — the revolutionary vision of Stoic Frame By Bill Nevins ALBUQUERQUE — The US-Mexico border region is a hot, turbulent zone of cactus, songs, snakes, spicy food, guns and brave gente (people) doing what

Cartoons from out of Leftfield, and on the webMore than 2000 people have already visited a new web site which features political cartoons by Arun Pradhan. The cartoons include the fortnightly feature in Green Left Weekly, "From out

Mixed insights into East Timor East Timor: too little too lateBy Lansell TaudevinDuffy and Snellgrove, 1999$24.95, 319 pp. Ballot and bullets: Seven days in East TimorBy Tim FischerAllen and Unwin, 2000$19.95, 149 pp. Review by Jon Land A swathe

Review by Stuart Munckton SchwerpunktBombscareAvailable at gigs for $5 or contact <[email protected]> Punk rock has come a long way. The pop-punk, like that of Blink 182, which dominates the airwaves these days has little in common

Ten easy steps to be an anticommunistThe Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, RepressionBy Stephane Courteis, et alHarvard University Press, 1999858pp, US$37.50 The openings for career anticommunists may have dried up a

A deep look at shallow news The Shallow EndWritten by Doug LucieNew Theatre, SydneyShowings until April 29MCA Ticketing 9873 3575Capitalism's new levels of aggression and ruthlessness are nowhere more evident than in the media,

Exhibition examines East Timor After Dili ActionBy Tom NicholsonWest Space Gallery, 15-19 Anthony St, MelbourneApril 5 to 15 In August, Melbourne-based artist Tom Nicholson travelled to East Timor to work with East Timorese campaigning for

The man they couldn't tame The HurricaneStarring Denzel Washington and Vicellous Reon ShannonDirected by Norman JewisonWritten by Armyan Bernstein and Dan GordonUniversal Pictures Review by Arun Pradhan "My real problems began when the Saturday