Review of “Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey” by Suzanne Berliner Weiss
Philip Ward reviews “Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey” by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, pub. Roseway Publishing, 2019.
Culture
Believe it or not!
Ian Parker reviews “I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalyptic Communism”.
Disaster Communism
Slavoj Žižek’s latest book mines the possibilities of exactly these new conditions in which we respect others in a quite new way, and he repeatedly returns to the question of what kind of social link COVID-19 creates in the world now.
Understanding the Holocaust
Henry Maitles reviews ” Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of History” by Enzo Traverso.
Culture Wars and Class Wars
There is growing view on the left that it should concentrate on the ‘class war’ and avoid ‘culture wars’. Phil Hearse argues that instead we fight all oppression, everywhere.
More than a cultist
Andrew Coates reviews “Memoirs of a Critical Communist”. He writes that “For those prepared to plunge into the difficulties the left faces, this book is an important reference”.
Dark Waters – a corporate cover-up
This film tells the true story of a corporate lawyer, Ron Bobitt, who started out defending big chemical companies like Dupont. But as a result of a family connection he ends up backing a farmer whose cows are being poisoned by Dupont. The insider becomes a redoubtable challenger to corporate power.
Greed – comedy with a kick
Andy Stowe reviews the film “Greed”, directed by Michael Winterbottom, and with Steve Coogan as McCreadie, a fashion mogul based on real-life billionaire Sir Philip Green.
Winter in the Bookshop
Sylvia has not written a history: it is better than that. She recollects the activities, the feelings and the hopes of young people coming into politics. The story is delightfully irreverent and funny.
If I had all this money, I’d be nice, too!
Parasite by Korean director Bong Joon Ho, which has done so well at the Oscars, is at its heart about class war and family.
