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Arts workers resist the grim future Tories have planned
The Tories’ response to the impact of the pandemic on the arts has been predictably brutal—but artists are fighting back, writes Mark Brown
Rocks—a brilliant, realistic film about young lives in London film
Rocks is a teenager struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother Emmanuel after her mum leaves them suddenly.
Kiss the Ground—documentary delivers climate change hope
“The Truth is, I had given up.”
Oil firms taken to task in Devil Has a Name
The star-studded drama can’t quite decide what kind of film it wants to be. But Simon Basketter says it’s enjoyable watching it try to work it out
A Moving Image shows gentrified London and a city constantly in motion
This award winning film investigates gentrification in Brixton, south London,
Public Enemy release a nostalgic album for new struggles
Fans have been waiting for Public Enemy to drop their new album What you Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? since they returned to the Def Jam label
The Rhino Conspiracy—a novel that’s more than a thriller
The Rhino Conspiracy by Peter Hain follows a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle taking on corruption in the governing elite
Des—the grim reality of a killer shown in all its banal horror
David Tennant is brilliant as Nilsen, creating an unsettling, disturbing character
David King—the graphic designer who printed his mark on the left
Yuri Prasad rates a new compilation of David King’s work which shows how he influenced the revolutionary left—and the commercial world beyond it
Sue Perkins documentary shows the lives behind the border wall
Elena Ferrante's latest examines suffocating world of teenagers
If you want a break from the big stresses of coronavirus and economic crisis, read Elena Ferrante’s new novel. There you can fall into a world of the very real, but smaller-scale, stresses of a teenage girl.
Raging class anger on Idles’ bitter new album Ultra Mono
The latest offering from this guitar-driven five piece has no shortage of fights to pick, with assaults on war, sexism, racism and poverty, writes Alan Kenny
Lovecraft Country turns horror tropes back at racism
Horror author HP Lovecraft supported lynching, and hated black people and Jews. But this new drama series subverts his legacy
Grindcore veterans Napalm Death are back with hardcore politics
Napalm Death are certainly not mellowing with age
Audacious film about police brutality in French suburbs
This impressive debut film of the black French filmmaker Ladj Ly, Les Miserables, is an incendiary provocative drama.
Two Heads Creek—a satirical horror that can’t hide its own prejudices
Think Hot Fuzz but set in Australia and not as good, and that’s Two Heads Creek.
Civil rights, black power and the music at the soul of the fight
The worst of times produced the best of soul, says BBC documentary Soul America
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill is everything you’d want from a Poirot novel
If you are missing Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective, then read the latest novel from Sophie Hannah
The sun should have set on the Twilight saga long ago
Midnight Sun is yet another re-telling of the original Twilight story by Stephenie Meyer—who stretches it to breaking point
Award-winning animation is beautiful
Away is a film from the prodigious Gints Zilbalodis, who wrote, designed, animated and scored the whole thing himself.
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- Canada—big business launches racist offensive on indigenous fishers
- Revolt in Nigeria continues after massacre of protesters
- School students organise powerful anti-racist revolt
- French state exploits murder to attack Muslims
- Met’s body cam decision hides cops’ racist record
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