WitchHunt – how antisemitism is weaponised
A review of the new film WitchHunt (Jon Pullman, 2019, 62 mins) by Dave Kellaway The Rio cinema in Hackney was nearly completely full for the premiere of the new film [...]
Reviews
Economics for the Many
Tony Traub reviews Economics for the Many, edited by John McDonnell, Verso This book is a valuable collection of sixteen short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, [...]
Indigenous and International Struggle
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life, just published by Merlin Press with Resistance Books. Hugo Blanco is an inspiration to [...]
Hugo Blanco: From Trotskyism to Indigenous Vitality
Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for Land: Hugo Blanco is a figure of great significance for contemporary thought on [...]
Peterloo – the relevance of history
Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo is the cinema of class war. It’s an unrepentantly pro-working class, anti-ruling class piece of work which every single Labour Party [...]
Ireland’s Housing Crisis
Ireland’s Housing Crisis: A Marxist Analysis by John McAnulty reviewed by Glynn Robbins John McAnulty’s short, readable pamphlet couldn’t be timelier. On 3rd October, [...]
A hidden history of British military repression against civilians
The Ballymurphy massacre has the simplest of all dramatic structures. It is a narrative built around a chronology – a three-day assault by the British Army on a Belfast [...]
Freedom is only the freedom of dissenters
Working for the Stasi Working for Russia I don’t even know what money looks like Only tellings off, pays cuts, ingratitude commands The members of the East German punk band [...]
Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell
Edited by David Margolies, Pluto, London, 2018. 192pp., £17.99 pb ISBN 9780745337227 Reviewed by Derek Wall On 15th March this year Anna Campbell died in Syria. A feminist [...]
BlacKkKlansman…..a warning from history
Speaking about his film BlacKkKlansman, director Spike Lee said “The film was in post-production when Charlottesville happened. Charlottesville wrote me a whole new [...]
