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Issue - 383
Repression and resistance
Boycott victory
Following on from Tom Hickey's article on the growing campaign for a boycott of Israel (Feature, Socialist Review, July/August), I thought readers would be interested to learn of a major success on this issue at the recent GMB union congress in June. The GMB is the country's third biggest union but for many years has...
Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is often at its most impressive when giving a voice to those suffering injustice. Michael Milligan has been touring the US with Mercy Killers, a dramatisation of the medical debt catastrophe confronting many Americans. In a police interrogation room the character Joe furiously tries to explain the suspicious death...
Good Vibrations is the story of Belfast's "Godfather of punk" Terri Hooley. On the most bombed street in Western Europe, Hooley set up an "alternative Ulster" in his record shop Good Vibrations. This is a special little film and a gem of a pop movie. With the right blend of fact and fiction, it captures...
Any Day Now
Although Any Day Now takes place in Brooklyn in the 1970s, the issues of LGBT and disabled people's oppression that it raises are as relevant today as they were then. On the back of the LGBT movement of the late 1960s, the film grapples with the contradictions of a society torn between the bigotry of...
The Stuart Hall Project
For many people on the left and in black communities, the Stuart Hall that we care about is not the disgraced "It's a Knockout" presenter. Instead, the man who enthralled us is one of the foremost post-war thinkers on the left in Britain. In the words of director John Akromfrah he is a "public intellectual"...
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's novel about the arrival and subsequent fate of Caroline Meeber, a young country girl in Chicago in 1889, marked a dramatic departure in American fiction. It was one of the first American novels to attempt to find an artistic form to confront the new realities of life in a country that...
Capitalism and Sport
Over the summer most of us will have been unable to ignore the tennis at Wimbledon, the IAAF athletics World Championships in Moscow and the start of the football season in August. During this period tens of millions of people will have tuned in to the media to share in the agony and ecstasy that...
Capitalism's Last Stand?
This September marks the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers. It is now over half a decade since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, but the world economy remains mired in depression with what the Financial Times has dubbed the "weakest recovery on record". Walden Bello's latest book,...
Mike Gonzalez will be no stranger to readers of this publication as a writer on the politics of Latin America and its diverse cultures. In this new book Mike and Marianella Yanes seek to explain the birth and development of tango, the dance that originated in Argentina. They set the emergence of tango against the...
Flight Behaviour
Dellarobia is a frustrated young mother and housewife. Married at 17 after accidently becoming pregnant, ten years on she is living on a run down farm in the Appalachian Mountains, spending her days at home with two little children. It is a yearning for something more that leads her to seek escape in an affair....
This edited collection brings a number of writers together to consider the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games on Britain. Edited by Mark Perryman, of Philosophy Football, it gathers essays that were written at different points over the past 12 months – some during the Games, some immediately after and some with greater distance and...
Investment In Blood
Frank Ledwidge is not a left wing anti-imperialist. Indeed in his new book he actually laments that the RAF did not play a larger role in the recent bombing of Libya. Apparently, the Danes carried out more raids than the British! Nevertheless, he has written two of the most devastating indictments of British involvement in...