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The Tax Payers' Alliance (TPA) describes itself as "Britain's independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes...The TPA is committed to forcing politicians to listen to ordinary taxpayers."

A popular joke in Soviet era Poland went something like this: "One day a pre-school teacher told her class, 'In Poland all kids are happy. They have lots of beautiful toys and live in great apartments...' Suddenly one child starts to cry and screams, 'I want to live in Poland!'"

The Thing Around Your Neck - Five Years of My Life - Umpteen Pockets - The Silence Seeker

The results of September's general election in Germany are contradictory. It brought to power a right wing combination of a conservative-liberal government.

Ian Taylor's article (Feature, Socialist Review, September 2009) rightly condemns the print unions NGA and SOGAT for allowing Murdoch a dream run with Wapping.

Director Grant Heslov; Release date: 6 November

"I don't take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won't let them block change anymore," said Barack Obama in a campaign ad last year.

I found last month's article on China interesting and Charlie Hore is right to point out that what happened in 1949 was not a socialist revolution (Feature, Socialist Review, October 2009).

Director Park Chan-Wook; Release date: out now

Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR worker, alleges that she was drugged and then raped by seven male contractors in Iraq in 2005 and then locked in a shipping container under armed guard. Meanwhile, vital evidence of the attack went "missing".

I am not an SWP supporter but I love your magazine.

Director Philippe Lioret; Release date: 6 November