Socialist Worker has just published a pamphlet by Chris Breen called:
Stuff the Corporate Games: Racism, Sexism, Nationalism--The Real Story of
the Olympics.
There are chapters on:
* The Olympics' sordid history
* The IOC
* The corporations behind the Games
* Nationalism
* Drugs and the ideology of winning
* Sexism in sport
* Why Aborigines are right to protest
* Why do people watch the Olympics?
* The socialist alternative
Copies are $3 from Socialist Worker sellers and branches. You can order by
mail for $3.60 (enclosing 8 x 45 cent stamps) from GPO Box 1473N, Melbourne
3001. Or get a copy by ringing 9386 4815 and leaving your contact details.
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