On 6 October 1960, the film Spartacus opened in New York City’s DeMille Theatre. TIME magazine celebrated “a new kind of Hollywood movie: a super-spectacle with spiritual vitality and moral force”. The New York Times‘ long-time film critic Bosley Crowther was less excited, dismissing the film as “heroic humbug”, adding that “the middle phase is […]
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The School for Unlearning Zionism
Rethinking the Zionist narrative
Berlin gegen Nazis
Uniting the anti-fascist fight in Berlin
The German Neutrality Law – a Travesty
One of the interesting things about Berlin’s Neutralitätsgesetz (apart from the fact, of course, that it isn’t very neutral) is that it is a relatively new law. This is weird because when listening to white Berliners talk about, you could be forgiven for thinking has existed since before the dawn of time, or at least […]
Tech Workers Coalition
Organising workers in the IT industry
Why are we not in Trafalgar Square?
‘The truth is that we have all been too cowed, too demoralised, hopeless or frightened. It is time for us to change that in ourselves.’
A Socialist Comes off the Fence
Anna Southern’s resignation letter from the Labour Party
More Signs of Establishment Moves against Trump
1. Inter-capitalist contradictions in the USA Recently I wrote on ‘Berlin Left’ and in an amplified version elsewhere [1] – that there had been an exodus of major sections of the ruling class from Trump’s camp. In brief the argument presented was that the main sections of the ruling class who have supported Trump […]