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19 February 2020
Brilliant Korean film exposes class inequality
Cinema - Parasite: It's the rich who are the real parasites
12 December 2018
Universal Credit Christmas misery
The shocking effects of Universal Credit have been revealed by the ordeal faced by one mother this Christmas.
20 June 2018
Inspirational account of young Marx's political battles
Film: The Young Karl Marx (2017): Director Raoul Peck takes us on a voyage through the life of 'The Young Karl Marx'.
7 February 2018
Darkest Hour: Not the usual flattery of brutal Tory Churchill
Watching Gary Oldman as Churchill in 'Darkest Hour' at the Tyneside Cinema, I felt quite emotional. I was angry - if it was left to the Tories in 1940 they would have surrendered to Hitler.
18 October 2017
October 1917 reviews: 'More bright than any heaven'
The October revolution showed countless millions that workers have the power to stop exploitation and oppression. It's no surprise these events inspired marvellous documentary and artistic works. The Socialist revisits some of the classic accounts of 1917 - and comments on some more recent efforts to smear it...
11 October 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including BAE job cuts, PCS action and cinema strikes.
30 August 2017
Corbyn confirms £1bn for the arts
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed his May pledge to inject £1 billion into the arts
26 July 2017
Russia 1917: how art helped make the revolution
Revolution in Russia swept away the dictatorial rule of the Tsar in February 1917. Then in October, led by the Bolshevik Party, a second revolution set up the world's first workers' state
19 April 2017
Picturehouse cinema strike spreads
Dulwich Picturehouse became the sixth site in the cinema chain to take strike action for the living wage on 15 April
12 April 2017
Newham socialists attend 'I, Daniel Blake' film night
Newham Community Cinema held a showing of Ken Loach's film 'I, Daniel Blake' on 8 April. On behalf of East London Socialist Party branch I was asked to introduce the film.
5 April 2017
Solid Picturehouse picket and protest
Around 30 striking workers and their supporters gathered outside Hackney Picturehouse on 31 March for a three-hour protest and picket. This marked the sixteenth strike organised by these workers since October 2016.
27 February 2017
Picturehouse strikers blockade Leicester Square
Strikers gathered from four Picturehouse cinemas
15 February 2017
Vibrant Picturehouse pickets in continued living wage strike
Bectu members at four sites took simultaneous strike action
8 February 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including DWP closures, Picturehouse strike and Deliveroo walkout.
11 January 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including the latest on the Picturehouse cinema strike and an arrest at a Harrods tips protest.
19 December 2016
Support mounts for Picturehouse strikers
The young workers at the Picturehouse cinema in Hackney struck over the launch of the new Star Wars film, 'Rogue One'.
2 November 2016
We are all Daniel Blake: no more deaths from benefit cuts
Thousands of people have died since the implementation of 'work capability assessments'. This is what the new Ken Loach film 'I, Daniel Blake' is all about. Enough is enough with this inhumane system!
26 October 2016
The new Ken Loach film "I, Daniel Blake" premiered at a cinema at Leicester Square, London, on 18 October. The film is about the hard life the main character, Daniel Blake, faces when he needs to access the benefit system after his health deteriorates.
12 October 2016
Ritzy strikers walk-out and rally
Ritzy strikers followed their picket line on 7 October with a rally outside the British Film (BFI) Institute festival and march to Leicester Square
5 October 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Virgin Trains strike; Ritzy cinema strike; Newsquest journalists' strike.
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