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By Terry McPartlan
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Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
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This latest of Ken Loach’s films is well crafted and well
thought. It has been thoroughly researched and really gets under the surface of
the processes and the events that helped shape the current situation on the island of Ireland.
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By Rob Sewell
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Monday, 17 April 2006 |
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On
this Easter Monday we are republishing an article by Rob Sewell in
which he analyses the real origins of the early Christians. Quoting
at length from Kautsky's The Foundations of Christianity he
reveals the real nature of early Christianity and how it emerged as a
movement of the oppressed in ancient Roman society, an early form of
Communism.
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By Ramon Sanchez
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Tuesday, 01 November 2005 |
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The Cuban revolution continues to resist all attempts to undermine it. This recent film shows different aspects of Cuban life today, its positive and negative sides, and although there are problems the overall impression is that a large part of the population understands the need for the revolution to survive. |
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 |
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The Motorcycle Diaries, the recently released film on Ernesto Che
Guevara, is an exciting adaptation of Guevara’s writings of the same name.
Also based on Alberto Granado’s memoirs Travelling With Che Guevara,
Che’s travelling companion, the director Walter Salles was able to paint a
graphic picture of a revolutionary in the making. |
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By Mark Turner
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Tuesday, 23 September 2003 |
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It is rare, these days, to see the bloodhound like features of John Pilger on
television - rare, but welcome. John Pilger made his name
as a crusading, left journalist, exposing the truth from the perspective of the
poor, the oppressed, and the exploited, especially focussing on the victims of
American imperialism such as Vietnam and Cambodia. |
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By Heiko Khoo
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Monday, 04 August 2003 |
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For once a film that accurately portrays the moods and attitudes of the
East
Berlin population during the year 1989-1990. This period saw a total
upheaval in
life, from the first demonstrations repressed by the East German state
on October 7, 1989 till German unification a year later, all the main
events are interspersed
with the way these events impacted life. |
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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Thursday, 19 December 2002 |
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According to director Michael Moore, the film Bowling for Columbine paints a portrait
of the United States, “a nation that seems hell-bent on killing first and asking
questions later” at the beginning of the 21st century. Appealing to the likes of us,
we thought, and this proved to be no false expectation. Apart from a film that grabs
the spectator by the scruff of the neck, at times being tragic by the bare facts alone,
Bowling for Columbine is above all a very humorous and enjoyable documentary about the
American weapons industry, but also about the latter’s link with US foreign policy. |
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