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29 January 2020
TV review: The Trial of Christine Keeler
Benjamin Disraeli, two-time Tory prime minister in the nineteenth century, once said: "A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy". The Christine Keeler story on BBC1 would seem to bear out that analysis.
29 January 2020
HS2 debacle: nationalise rail and construction!
Tory cabinet minister Stephen Barclay has a "gut feeling" that the 'HS2' high-speed rail link between London and the north of England will go ahead.
15 January 2020
Environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot recently narrated a thought-provoking documentary on Channel 4 - Apocalypse Cow.
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.
9 October 2019
Book review: She Said - Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
On 5 October two years ago, the #MeToo movement exploded - first on social media, then spreading to protests on the streets and in workplaces - becoming a global phenomenon.
12 June 2019
TV Review: Chernobyl - Workers' heroism vs sclerotic Stalinism
This five-part docudrama focuses on the disaster in 1986 that took place at the Chernobyl (now part of Ukraine) nuclear facility in the Soviet Union.
30 January 2019
Fiction: Tombland "The power of common people fighting for justice in the 16th century"
Tombland is the latest novel in the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom. It is a murder mystery set in the 16th century. There are no spoilers in this review about who the murderer was.
9 January 2019
Theatre review: Women of Aktion - the heroic story of how World War One was ended
Women of Aktion by the Bent Architect Theatre Company tells the story of the women and men whose heroic actions brought World War One to an end.
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
Enthusiastic response to new podcast
As we go to press episode four of 'Socialism: the podcast of the Socialist Party' has just been published. Many were pleased to hear that the Socialist Party's publications are expanding to this new media.
13 March 2018
Determined UCU strikers: We're out to win!
With a storm of protest on social media overnight and remarkable scenes on angry picket lines and massive protests, University and College Union members around the country have ensured no backtracking in their struggle to defend their pensions.
6 December 2017
BT pensions review - oppose the attacks on the pension schemes
A 60-day consultation is taking place to make changes to several BT pension schemes
15 November 2017
TV review: Abortion on Trial - hard-hitting look at impact of 1967 act
Abortion on Trial is a hard-hitting, personal and political look at the 1967 Abortion Act. Eight women, who had all had abortions, and one man were invited to discuss their experiences
15 November 2017
Comprehensive account of bloody conflict
TV review: The Vietnam War: The US's role in endless wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Rising tensions between the US, Russia and China. Watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's monumental ten-part documentary on the Vietnam
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
11 October 2017
Nasty party imploding...drive out the Tories
The prime minister has gone from "strong and stable" to spluttering and stuttering in the space of a few short months.
6 September 2017
'Let the producers of wealth unite - and what can withstand them?'
Non-fiction review: Six for the Tolpuddle Martyrs: Every year thousands of trade unionists descend upon the small village of Tolpuddle in Dorset to commemorate the struggle in 1832 of farm workers to form a union
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
6 September 2017
Huddersfield A&E closure goes to judicial review
Anger at the malicious cuts in health care proposed by the CCG which puts the local community at risk, writes Huddersfield HRI campaign.
30 August 2017
Catchy folk rock with a socialist edge
Music review: 'Another Day' stands in the best tradition of British radical folk music
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