Film review: Judas and the Black Messiah

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Marxism v liberalism: HG Wells talks to Stalin

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Channel 4’s The Promise breaks new ground for Palestine on British TV
4
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5
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6
The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’
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Poem: Comrade Bhagat Singh and Comrade Udham Singh
8
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9
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Film and TV highlights

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?

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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?

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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.

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