Norman Bethune in Spain: Commitment, Crisis and Conspiracy (2013) Author: David Lethbridge Publisher: Sussex Academic Press Few figures in Canadian history remain as popular as Norman Bethune. This despite a plethora of books, films and [...]
A Socialist Defector: from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee Author: Victor Grossman Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2019 Thirty one years ago the Berlin Wall came down and the working class in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East [...]
Orange is the New Black Season 7 (2019), 13 Episodes Created by Jenji Kohan Orange is the New Black (OITNB) has become a fan favorite on Netflix, being the most popular series on that platform. The final season of this franchise is also its [...]
Film review: After Porn Ends (2012) After Porn Ends is an important documentary that explores what happens to sex workers once they retire from the “adult entertainment” industry. The film raises points that can be informative to an analysis of [...]
David Rovics, the topical songwriter from Portland, Oregon, has just released Strangers and Friends, a new album that may well be his best ever. Rovics has been mentioned a lot in this column over the years. Many of this paper's readers have seen [...]
Michael Berkowitz HBO’s Watchmen is a stunning achievement for television. It is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure, a genre in [...]
A flash mob performance piece written by a feminist collective in the Chilean city of Valparaíso has been taken up by women worldwide as a battle cry for justice. “Un violador en tu camino” (“A rapist in your path”) is an important part of the [...]
By Victor Grossman No one on Berlin’s main eastbound traffic artery could miss one of the two murals, five stories high, 2745 square feet in area, in shiny bright, red, green, yellow and blue colours up to the gabled rooftop of an older, isolated [...]
Allende era's music inspires Chileans The struggle that culminated in the election of Salvador Allende's socialist Popular Unity government in Chile in 1970 was nurtured by a profound musical revolution. While Latin America's Nueva Canción (“New [...]
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 [...]
