Promising a cinematic celebration of 40 years of riots and struggle, Born in ’68 manages only a pale reflection, says Jacqui Freeman
The anti-capitalist movement pioneered a politics of subvertising.
Science fiction and socialists have always had a relationship that derives from our shared desire to discuss possible futures.
Now something of an institution, Bob Dylan’s radio show divides the world into a series of somewhat random categories, such as work or guns, and then builds a playlist of songs around them.
This harrowing documentary follows two British soldiers who have been horrifically injured while fighting in Afghanistan.
A group of soldiers swaggers through a slum backing up callous bureaucrats as they serve eviction orders on the malnourished residents. Anyone who objects faces abuse. Anyone who resists is shot down.
Jazz was in crisis in the early 1970s—the death of John Coltrane and the demise of the civil rights movement left many players disorientated.
Radical writer and director Trevor Griffiths has made an inspiring play telling the true story of an ordinary man transformed by the extraordinary times he lived through in the revolutionary upsurge at the end of the 18th century.
Irish writer Claire Kilroy’s novel is about emotions rather than events.
In the summer of 1989, I stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin with my uncle. Looking at the Berlin Wall, he told me that it would be there forever. He couldn’t imagine a Berlin without it. Yet within a few months it was history.
Inspired by Jimmy Ruffin’s song "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?", AL Kennedy’s fifth collection of short stories is written in the distinctive literary style that has won her awards and widespread acclaim.
This satire takes us down the corridors of power in London and Washington where chillingly amoral politicians are putting together tissue-thin justifications for invading a country in the Middle East.
