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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.
18 April 2018
Vital depiction of fight for Aids prevention and treatment
Film - 120 BPM: Activists in 'Act Up' in the 1980s and 90s organised militant political action against the ongoing Aids crisis
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.
31 January 2018
Trump as Nixon: urgent questions about press freedom and the state
Film: The Post: In 1971 US casualties in Vietnam were running at 500 a week, and opposition to the war was reaching boiling point.
15 November 2017
Letters to the Socialist's editors including cancer treatment privatisation, The Death of Stalin, mental health cuts and Arriva profits.
25 October 2017
Film - Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast
He maintained his radical statements even when considered 'unpopular'. But even some good class fighters can lose their socialist compass
25 October 2017
Well-deserved ridicule of Stalinism is impressive, funny but flawed
Film - The Death of Stalin: Fans of The Thick of It's lampooning of New Labour will notice parallels. The Stalinists, like the Blairites, are egotistical buffoons, completely isolated from the working class
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.
6 September 2017
Warts-and-all account of class war and the struggle for LGBT+ rights
Non-fiction review: Pride: 'Pride' tells the story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). The group struggled alongside miners and their families in south Wales during the 1984-85 strike
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