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As mentioned in yesterday’s post, the full Mark Thomas/Coca-Cola Dispatches programme is now available for download here (via Couchtripper – rename the CTR file to WMV). I have yet to watch it myself.
From the moment I flipped over to it, I could see the tone was entirely hostile to the Bolivarian project as a whole – and what good things Sweeney had to say about the revolution were through (metaphorically, and perharps literally) gritted teeth. Children get free meals in schools – “aah a cunning plan to indoctrinate them!”, peasants collectivise agricultural land – “ahh but look, there’s some dirt on the farm!”, Bolivarian Circles are armed and trained in case of Imperialist intervention and/or counter-revolution – “ahh, they might use weapons against those who refuse to vote for Chavez Now I’m not going to argue that the Bolivarian revolution is perfect – it’s not – nor that Chavez is some kind of saintly superhero – he’s not – but this program was farcical. And I’m going to stop talking about it now – though there is some dicussion over on the MediaLens board. However, here are some good documentaries about the ongoing processes in Venezulea, and a link to the Hands Off Venezuela website. John Pilger: The War on Democracy (2007) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2000, aka Chavez: Inside the Coup) No Volveran: The Venezuelan Revolution Now (2007 – Incidentally, this is getting a screening in Connolly Books, Dublin on Monday 26th November – see here for full details) Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the Struggle of the Fourth World War (2004) Venezuela From Below (2007)
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TV TONIGHT: Mark Thomas vs Coca Cola
Posted November 19, 2007 by citizenpartridgeCategories: capitalism, corporations, film, tv
Tags: activism, capitalism, channel 4, coca cola, coke, corporations, dispatches, environment, killer coke, mark thomas, pollution, trade unions, tv
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UPDATE: A download of this film is now available here. TV Tonight (Mon 29th Nov): Dispatches – Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola, 8pm, Channel 4.
Check out Mark’s site here, and a couple of articles he has written about Coke in the past. |
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Also, last night I had the misfortune to catch some of BBC’s This World program about the Venezuelan Revolution. The Jon Sweeney presented ‘documentary’ was entitled “
Following on from his expose of the arms trade (
The first is an October 2007 interview with famed socialist film director Ken Loach. In the interview he talks both about his latest film
The second interview is actually a lecture given by socialist sci-fi author
Finally, here are a couple of lectures given by the SWP’s resident ‘fantastic fiction’ author/International Law expert 






