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Culture / Art has a side – and we must take ours

In defence of socialist realism and a culture of the working class.

20 Jun 2025 , Proletarian
Film and TV / TV review: Adolescence

Netflix’s latest liberal mind rot.

23 May 2025 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

15 Sep 2023 , Lalkar

Korea / Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary.

25 Jun 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

A searing reminder of the need for class unity in the battle for socialism.

8 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
Media / British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare

The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.

10 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
Film and TV / #EatTheRich: Parasite film review

A searing and at times hilarious critique of south Korean class society, ultimately let down by its inability to offer any real way out.

19 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

14 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You

A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.

8 Dec 2019 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Film review: Joker

A real controversy, a true subversion, or merely a storm in a teacup?

2 Nov 2019 ,
Film and TV / Film: The Death of Stalin

It’s bad history and bad art, but Armando Iannucci’s film has put the wind up bourgeois critics for quite other reasons than those.

15 Jun 2018 , Proletarian
Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

1 Oct 2011 , Proletarian
Palestine / Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV

Drama breaks new ground on mainstream TV by portraying some of the brutality that characterises the state of Israel and shattering its claims to be a democracy.

1 Apr 2011 , Proletarian
Film and TV / Deborah Lavin film review: The Motorcycle Diaries

A reminder that communists and communism are not our enemy but the hope of the world.

1 Oct 2004 , Proletarian

Film and video

China / Seek the truth to save humanity: why context matters

Chinese cultural videos aim to break down artificial barriers of suspicion and prejudice.

23 Jun 2023, Proletarian TV

Film and TV theory

Culture / Deepening party work in the cultural sphere

The struggle for socialism is not only a political and economic struggle but also a cultural and educational one.

27 Apr 2025,
Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

2 Jun 2021, Proletarian

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Stalin at the Durham gala: what is the DMC afraid of?

Why is a picture of Stalin banned by ‘labour movement custodians’ while genocide-supporting Labour leaders are feted?
2
Glasgow protests demonstrate farce of ‘fascists’ v ‘antifascists’
3
As Nato’s war fails in Ukraine, the imperialists’ problems are getting worse
4
Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 3
5
UnitedHealth stocks crash – a sign of the global economic crisis
6
Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy
7
Whatever happened to Lowestoft?
8
Palestine Action: Genocide resisters added to ‘terrorism’ proscription list
9
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
10
In the footsteps of Sankara: Ibrahim Traoré and the new African revolution

Film and TV highlights

Culture / Art has a side – and we must take ours

In defence of socialist realism and a culture of the working class.

Film and TV / TV review: Adolescence

Netflix’s latest liberal mind rot.

Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

Korea / Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary.

World history / Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

A searing reminder of the need for class unity in the battle for socialism.

Media / British ban of Chinese news channel is another step towards open warfare

The mainstream media is spreading cold war propaganda against China in support of the imperialists’ drive to an all-out conflagration.

Film and TV / #EatTheRich: Parasite film review

A searing and at times hilarious critique of south Korean class society, ultimately let down by its inability to offer any real way out.

Film and TV / Mr Jones: anti-Soviet propaganda gets thumbs up from Ukrainian president

The same old tired lies are being recycled under the guise of ‘fresh evidence’ in order to remind workers they must not think about taking state power.

Film and TV / Film review: Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You

A faithful depiction of the horrors of today’s contract workers, marred by its total pessimism.

Film and TV / Film review: Joker

A real controversy, a true subversion, or merely a storm in a teacup?

Film and TV / Film: The Death of Stalin

It’s bad history and bad art, but Armando Iannucci’s film has put the wind up bourgeois critics for quite other reasons than those.

Film and TV / We Are Many: new film prettifies leaders of the anti-war movement

We have the power to change the world, but are we allowing that power to be diverted?

Working-class history / Downton Abbey, the Jolly George and Stop the War

Please, if we ask you nicely, will you? Pretty please?

Palestine / Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV

Drama breaks new ground on mainstream TV by portraying some of the brutality that characterises the state of Israel and shattering its claims to be a democracy.

Film and TV / Deborah Lavin film review: The Motorcycle Diaries

A reminder that communists and communism are not our enemy but the hope of the world.

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China / Seek the truth to save humanity: why context matters

Chinese cultural videos aim to break down artificial barriers of suspicion and prejudice.

Film and TV theory

Culture / Deepening party work in the cultural sphere

The struggle for socialism is not only a political and economic struggle but also a cultural and educational one.

Sport / What can the European Super League teach us about monopoly capitalism?

The monopolisation of football is teaching workers all over again some of the lessons taught to us by Lenin over a century ago.

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UnitedHealth stocks crash – a sign of the global economic crisis

Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy

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The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’

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