If you want to see a very funny film that targets all the right people with a scalpel-sharp script then don’t miss In The Loop. It is the big-screen version of the BBC’s The Thick Of It.
Five Socialist Worker readers have a chance to win this new T-shirt from Philosophy Football commemorating the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike.
This new paperback collects together over 30 years of essays by A Sivanandan, the campaigner, writer and director of the Institute of Race Relations.
Tony Manero is a film set in Chile’s capital city Santiago in 1978 – during the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
Glen Duncan’s new novel is a political thriller about extraordinary rendition and torture. It features Augustus Rose, a mixed race American who is a former student radical, disillusioned journalist, restaurant boss and a terrorist.
Rodolfo Muñoz Ramirez is a percussionist from Lima, Peru, and Christoph Müller is an Austrian musician most famous for his work with The Gotan Project.
London-based singer‑songwriter Sean Taylor has been praised for his modern protest songs and compared to the likes of Tom Waits and even Bob Dylan.
At the close of the 1960s, saxophonist Nathan Davis was making records in praise of the civil rights movement and in opposition to war – from the relatively safe distance of France.
The continuing power of the events of 26 April 1937 are shown in Dave Boling’s debut novel. It follows the lives of the Ansotegui and Navarro families from the end of the 19th century through to the beginning of the Second World War.
The horror of the aerial bombardment of Guernica, in Spain, by fascist forces on 26 April 1937 drove Pablo Picasso to his canvas.
These two 60 minute documentaries tell the story of seven British people who fought for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9.
The Pet Shop Boys have just released Yes, their brilliant tenth studio album.
