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9 December 2020
TV review: Red, White and Blue
More than just diversity - we need democratic, working-class control of the police: The BBC recently aired the film 'Red, White and Blue' from the Steve McQueen mini-series 'Small Axe'
2 December 2020
The Social Dilemma is a film recently produced by Netflix, exploring the impact of social media on society
25 November 2020
CripTales: A painful reflection of a system that pits us against each other
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act, the BBC has produced a series of short films called 'CripTales'
7 October 2020
Film: 'Sick' - 'They've got people looking in the wrong direction'
'Sick' is a heart-wrenching drama/documentary that uses the real stories of benefit claimants battling, and sometimes losing to, the system to claim Personal Independence Payment, and also work capability assessments for Employment Support Allowance.
22 July 2020
Exciting Cuban spy thriller exposes US-sponsored terrorism
Action-packed and exciting, Wasp Network is a spy thriller that tells the story of the 'Cuban Five'
17 June 2020
Film: Da 5 Bloods - entertaining but politically constrained
Spike Lee's new film 'Da 5 Bloods', featuring four black American army veterans of the Vietnam War who meet up again in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, has been released on Netflix just as racism and the class system that ferments it are in the forefront of the minds of millions of people
11 March 2020
Film: Greed directed by Michael Winterbottom
It was refreshing to watch a mainstream film exposing the madness and exploitative nature of the capitalist system, writes Barbara Clare, Stevenage.
26 February 2020
A jury in New York City found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault on 24 February. More trials are ahead for the multimillionaire film producer.
19 February 2020
Brilliant Korean film exposes class inequality
Cinema - Parasite: It's the rich who are the real parasites
30 October 2019
Film reviews: Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach
"A stark reminder of the inhumane lengths bosses will go to under capitalism to increase their profits": "Let's get one thing straight, you don't work for us, you work with us". Those words from the boss's mouth in the opening scene of Sorry We Missed You get turned into a sick joke over the course of the film
9 October 2019
Film review: Joker - Sympathising with a monster created by today's incendiary conditions
The most striking thing about this film is how gritty and believable it is. Based on the origin story of one of the most iconic comic book villains of all time, and situated in Gotham City, a carbon copy of New York City, this film is set in the 80s.
13 February 2019
'Green Book' film: a timely reminder of racism in the USA
It's been called a buddy/road trip film in the tradition of 'Driving Miss Daisy' - it is much more than that and yet, perhaps, less than it could be
6 February 2019
Film: Vice - Dick Cheney - a cold and calculating opportunist
"So?" is Dick Che-ney's response to the fact that two-thirds of Americans said the 2003 Iraq war was not worth fighting. 'Vice' closes with this.
16 January 2019
Sorry to Bother You: "Socialist film Botox that made me feel young again"
Film review: Union organisation and action in telesales are the backdrop to the film
7 November 2018
Nae Pasaran: a film about working-class solidarity
This is an inspiring film and I don't doubt that if you see it you will shed a tear. It is a story of international solidarity of the working class and the power of those acts of solidarity having a ripple effect.
31 October 2018
'Lucas Plan' film tells story of workers who set out alternative to job losses
Film review: The plan that came from the bottom up: 'The plan that came from the bottom up' is a new film about the 'Lucas Plan', developed by shop stewards at Lucas Aerospace in the Midlands in 1976, to make socially useful products rather than armaments used to kill people.
24 October 2018
1821 Cinderloo uprising: "The crowd thought it had nothing else to lose"
Recently, a group in Telford, Shropshire has highlighted events that took place in the county in 1821, known as the Cinderloo uprising. The very name indicates the national effects of the growing Chartist movement and the events of Peterloo two years earlier.
12 October 2018
Peterloo film exposes bloody nature of capitalism
Director-scriptwriter Mike Leigh has created an excellent feature length film of the 1819 Peterloo massacre
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'.
23 May 2018
We can learn about struggle from the mass trespass of Kinder Scout
The story of the mass trespass by hundreds of young working people from Manchester and Sheffield on Kinder Scout, to establish the 'right to roam', is remembered with pride.
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