Tim Nailsea reviews Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery

Tim Nailsea reviews the 2020 edition of Britain's Road to Socialism

Review of Mangrove, first film in Steve McQueens Small Axe series.

Punch up, not down.

Tim Nailsea reviews A People's History of the German Revolution

Tim Nailsea reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani

Bernie McAdam reviews Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax by Simon Hannah

Tim Nailsea reviews The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Global Politics by David Goodhart

Urte March reviews Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Aruzza, et al

Review of Blue Story, directed by Rapman (Andrew Onwubolu) A low-budget debut film made by British hip-hop artist Rapman has hit the news for all the wrong reasons.

Jeremy Dewar reviews From BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Tom Sherwood reviews Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

Andy Yorke reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas

THE online culture wars became inflamed again recently in an episode triggered by — of all things — microwave rice. After celebrity chef Jamie Oliver released his new “Punchy Jerk Rice” Dawn Butler, Labour MP and daughter of Jamaican immigrants, took to Twitter to admonish him. She wrote: “#jamieoliver @jamieoliver #jerk I’m just wondering do you know what #Jamaican#jerk […]

Andy Yorke reviews Paul Mason, PostCapitalism

João Moreira Salles’ thoughtful cinematic essay No Intenso Agora begins with Charles de Gaulle’s address to France on New Year’s Day 1968. A warm, almost grandfatherly figure, de Gaulle comments with palpable irony that although “the future is difficult to predict” he is pleased by the “happy, peaceful outlook that 1968 offers upon the nation”. […]

Does Charlie Brooker's latest effort hold a mirror up to the real threat?

A review of Boris Arvatov's Art and Production, published for the first time in English by Pluto Press

Audiences will wish a little more love had gone into James Graham's laboured production

Review of Kathryn Bigelow's recreation of one night at the Algiers Motel in 1967

By Jeremy Dewar A 1975 apartment block plays host to Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of the eponymous JG Ballard novel, which portrays what antihero psychologist Robert Laing terms “a future that has already happened”. The film descends into an orgy of sex and violence, the context for an allegorical critique of class society. As you might […]

The images of the Black Panthers – black berets and leather jackets, afros, guns, the pouncing panther – and their enduring inspiration are so great that it’s hard to believe that this is only the second full length film documenting their rise and fall. However, it is well worth the wait. The footage and interviews […]

Joy Macready reviews Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

Joy Macready reviews Assata - An Autobiography

Joy Macready reviews 'Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism (2013)'

Chris Clough reviews Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason

Joy Macready reviews The Battle of Orgreave (2002) IN 2001, Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller orchestrated a re-enactment of the Battle of Orgreave, one of the most violent confrontations of the Great Miners’ Strike. More than 800 people took part, many of them former miners, reliving events that they themselves took part in. The […]

Simon Hardy reviews Marx Reloaded by Jason Barker (2011) MARX IS back, but are his ideas still relevant? That is the basic theme of this documentary by Jason Barker. Having a documentary about Marx with such luminaries as Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, and Nina Power is certainly worthwhile if it gets these ideas back into a wider audience. […]

Joy Macready reviews The Riots at Tricycle Theatre on between 17 November – 10 December

By Joana Ramiro THE IDES of March could not come at a more politically appropriate time, for this is a story about the credibility of politics and the struggle between principled idealists and the realities of bourgeois democratic. Sitting in his director’s chair, George Clooney delivers an albeit mild exposé of political campaigning, performing a […]