Culture
Hip Hop for who?
Matt Chew Sat, 19/03/2011 - 20:38Hip-hop music originated in 1970’s block parties in New York, especially in poorer areas like The Bronx. Read more...
Never let me go: What makes us human?
Simon Hardy Tue, 22/02/2011 - 21:21What makes us human? Simon Hardy reviews Never let me go, a stark humanist tale which takes a swipe at unethical science in the modern age Read more...
Toy Story 3 – a religious allegory
Simon Hardy Tue, 10/08/2010 - 11:30Simon Hardy reviews Toy Story 3 (Disney/Pixar - 2010) and finds some surprising religious views Read more...
WOBBLIES!
Fri, 30/09/2005 - 22:00Review of a new graphical history of the IWW, by Patrick Spackman Read more...
Playing with Politics?
Sun, 09/01/2005 - 23:00Rachel Hodgins reviews Playing with Fire by David Edgar, National Theatre to 21 October Read more...
City of God
Thu, 02/01/2003 - 23:00City of God is a movie set in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro with a style that could be described as Tarantino crossed with Ken Loach - cartoon violence laced with social realism. Read more...
Moore's message: racist white America is scared
Thu, 10/01/2002 - 23:00Bill Jenkins reviews Bowling for Colombine, directed by Michael Moore, on general release Read more...
A lesson in how history repeats itself
Thu, 10/01/2002 - 23:00Marshall Somerset reviews the film: The Fog of War: 11 lessons from the life of Robert S MacNamara Read more...
Taking sides in the science wars
Thu, 20/04/2000 - 22:00Jack Tully makes sense of the science wars that have gripped the USA, and argues that socialists must be at the forefront of a critical defence of science Read more...
Film and Freedom
Sun, 16/04/2000 - 22:00Ken Loach has made many memorable films, most recently My Name is Joe. An earlier Loach film, Land and Freedom, dealt with the Spanish Civil war of the late 1930s. As in all his films Loach's loyalty to the working class and its struggles is evident. The interview, by Alejandra Rîos, was for Estrategia Internacional No. 10, the journal of the Argentinian group, the PTS. This version has been abridged for reasons of space. Thanks are due to all concerned in the interview and its translation. Read more...
The current programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2011 