The hope of peace at last: The Russian Revolution in documentary and song

The November-December episode of Communist Voice premieres on The Peoples Channel Tuesday (the 6^th) at 6pm, but because of some problems, the previous episode will be air one more week on Durham Community Media, so the new episode will start there on the 13^th at 6pm. The title of this episode comes from a line from an excellent Irish song, The Red Flag, sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum or Maryland, My Maryland. It was written by Jim Connell in 1889 (see webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/lsongs.htm ). This episode includes Chronicle of October – 1917; Song is Our Friend, which has some famous Soviet songs like the World War II song Holy War; a short YouTube video from the Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist, which I won't describe because it is going to surprise many people, though many communists will already know this song; and two music videos by the Pakistani group Laal. There were a lot of problems getting the Laal videos off of Youtube. Inqalab [Revolution] is dedicated to the millions of bonded laborers in South Asia. There might be some problems with the video, but it can be viewed, with English subtitles, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtrV6o2fCpI&feature=relmfu . The episode ends on Jaago [Awaken], a Pakistani version of the famous leftist song The Internationale. It can be found in a few places on YouTube, but this video comes from www.youtube.com/watch?v=v07kRN1VnlA&feature=related . Because of technical problems, the video and audio were added separately, and something might have happened with the audio, since it should have vocals. I would have liked to include Utho Meri Duniya ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=owHGL8ZG0WI&feature=relmfu ), but there were technical problems and lack of time in this episode.

Celebrating the 95th anniversary of the Russian Revolution on The Peoples Channel and Durham Community Media

The September-October episode of Communist Voice has been broadcast for 8 weeks, so under TPC/DCM rules it won't be shown October 29^th, but the next episode should air November 6^th, just in time for the anniversary of the socialist stage of the Russian Revolution, November 7^th. This is the most complex episode to produce up to now, editing together videos from DVD, VHS, and YouTube. It includes a re-airing of the English language Soviet video Chronicle of October- 1917, another short Soviet video and a YouTube clip featuring songs of the October Socialist Revolution, and a few music videos from the Pakistani communist pop band Laal [Red]. Laal's channel on www.youtube.com is laalpakistan and the lead singer and guitarist is a leader of the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (Communist Workers and Peasants Party).