Memoirs of Malaysian communist guerrilla leader holds many lessons for today
Reviewed by Peter Taaffe, CWI
Published by Media Masters, Singapore, 2003. 527 pages
"Tell Me No Lies, Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs" is edited by Australian political journalist John Pilger.
When most of the world's mass media is firmly "embedded" into the thinking of governments and the big business interests that lie behind them, the publication of a collection of some of the greatest pieces of investigative journalism could not come sooner.
Niall Mulholland, CWI
By Alan Woods
The story of D-Day has been told many times. It has made a powerful impression on the public through films such as The Longest Day and, more recently, Saving Private Ryan. The recent celebrations, accompanied by a steady stream of television documentaries, have revived the stories about the heroic invasion of France, the terrible cost in human lives, the sacrifice and the bravery. All of this is true. But it does not tell anything like the full story.
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Dave Carr reviews Fahrenheit 9/11
It's not surprising that Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is storming the US. The film's release coincides with Americans' growing anger at George Bush and his right-wing regime.
Good article on the issues surrounding Mervin Luck's refugee protest after his eviction from Big Brother last Sunday. The author Dean Bertram is an independent film-maker, reality-TV junkie and PhD candidate in the department of history at the University of Sydney. First printed in The Australian, 15th June.
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! (Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94) is a history of the most severe defeat suffered by the Australian working class in recent times. Author Liz Ross interviewed dozens of participants in the battle and her honest account is forensic in its approach to detail.
Read rest of this review by Stephen Jolly, a shop steward in the CFMEU
2 letters - one is an appeal for help from Tasmanian workers and the other is on the issue of depression and what socialists think about this growing problem
Marisa Bernardi, Socialist Party Sydney, reviews Peter Taaffe's Empire Defeated
The horrific Vietnam War, which reached its heights in the late 1960’s, aroused world wide opposition to the intervention. Then, as now, Australia’s conservative Liberal government jumped on the bandwagon to invade a country which the US had in its sights.
Goodbye Lenin is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. A working class single mother, Christiane, and her 20-year old son, Alexander, live in a tiny East Berlin flat in the last days of Stalinism.
EMPIRE DEFEATED, the new book by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, has been published at a time when many are drawing parallels between the Vietnam War and the war and occupation of Iraq. In this interview, Peter Taaffe explains the background to his writing of the book and draws out some of the main lessons we can learn for today. Also, extract from book.
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Michael Moore said "barring success", Stupid White Men, (reviewed in The Socialist, issue 254), would be his last book. But last year when George W Bush was supposedly so popular, it was the leading non-fiction book bought and read by Americans. So he's written Dude, Where's My Country?
