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Michael Palin: From Monty Python to Pyongyang

North Korea Journal (2019) Michael Palin Many readers might know Michael Palin as part of the Monty Python comedy troupe. His comedic antics were hilarious, and his work has been shown around the world. In later years he also became a [...]

Gaza Fights for Freedom: Repression, animated by the reality of a people’s brave resistance

Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019) Director: Abby Martin Writers: Mike Prysner, Abby Martin Review by Jay Watts In the wake of the Bush-era box-office popularity of socially engaged documentary films like Fahrenheit 9/11, The Fog of War and [...]

Music Notes: Waters to Assange, “Wish You Were Here”

More than a thousand Julian Assange supporters cheered as Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger introduced Roger Waters at a September 2 demonstration outside the British Home Office. The rally called for an end to the unlawful detention [...]

Music Notes: This land is whose land?

Folksinger Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) is widely acclaimed as the great bard of the American working class. More than fifty years after his death, his songs are still performed around the world. Guthrie grew up in Okemah, Oklahoma, in the heart of [...]

Beautifully shot, but film of 1919 strike a missed opportunity

Stand! (2019) Director: Robert Adetuyi Writers: Rick Chafe, Danny Schur Reviewed by Stephen Seaborn Stand!, the feature length drama about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, charmed audiences with its world première at this month's [...]

“Hot-house flower” from the muck of brutal racism

Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, by Gerald Horne (Monthly Review Press, 2019). 456 pages Historian Gerald Horne, Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, is a prolific author and [...]

Winnipeg General Strike pops off the page

1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike, by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester, published by Between the Lines, 2019, 107 pages, ISBN 978-1-77113-4209-0 (softcover). Review by Kimball Cariou "A picture is worth a [...]

Music Notes: Johnny Clegg, 1953-2019

Johnny Clegg, the South African musician who defied apartheid by forming two highly successful biracial bands, died at his home in Johannesburg on July 16 after a long fight with cancer. Clegg's first band, Juluka, began in 1969 as a duo with [...]

Gender and wealth: a feminist viewpoint

The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich, by Victoria Bateman, 243 pp., 2019, Polity Press. Review by Kimball Cariou. British economist and activist Victoria Bateman is known for unorthodox tactics to get her point across at staid [...]

Music Notes: “Blood”: anthem of the Sudanese struggle

There are times when, in the midst of a democratic struggle, an artist appears who expresses the aspirations and the anger of the people. The Sudanese rapper Ayman Mao is one such artist. His song “Dum” (“Blood”) is widely recognized as an anthem of [...]

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