Reviews and Culture- Page 8

Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and the responsibility of artists during a genocide

“Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.” By Kate Marie These were the words of Benjamin Netanyahu as he presented Kraft, the Zionist multibillionaire owner of the New England Patriots, with the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem in 2019.

Sep 17, 2026

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Belfast directed by Kenneth Branagh

Reviewed by Eoin Dawson Kenneth Branagh’s biopic, Belfast, released in January 2022 to much applause. But for many Belfast natives, it fell flat. The film opens like an on-screen city break brochure, with all the modern visual icons, before fading to black

Feb 1, 2022

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“You Have To Be A Killer”: Deadly capitalism in Succession’s world and ours

By Grace Fors, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) This review contains spoilers. In an era of unfathomable inequality and global crisis giving way to rising class consciousness and unrest, it’s no surprise that shows like The White Lotus, Squid Game,

Jan 17, 2022

Environment·News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Planet on Fire – A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

By Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton Verso 2021 Reviewed by James Fleming Capitalism’s “solutions” to climate change are unfair or unworkable, when not outright disastrous. Using reusable coffee cups or paper straws won’t avert climate change. Telling ordinary people to buy expensive

Jan 11, 2022

Reviews and Culture·World News

Review: In The Camps by Darren Byler

By Per-Åke Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative Three hundred camps with more than a million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are probably the most brutal expressions of the CCP dictatorship in China. In Darren Byler’s new book, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony,

Jan 2, 2022

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Review: Don’t Look Up directed by Adam McKay

By Manus Lenihan A comet is about to wipe out all life on Earth – this was the basic idea of not one but two Hollywood movies released in 1998. Deep Impact was considered more ‘realistic’ than Armageddon, but both were fantasies

Jan 1, 2022

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Review: Dopesick – a look into the psychopathy of capitalism

By Fiona Ryan Dopesick hit streaming platforms in November and has shocked audiences with its broadly factual take on the machinery behind OxyContin and the wide scale misery caused by addiction to the drug. Dopesick chronicles the rise of the so-called “miracle

Dec 16, 2021

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Review: Elsewhere directed by Michael Gallen

By Finn McKenna Elsewhere, the opera by Michael Gallen based around the Monaghan Soviet which ran in the Abbey Theatre (15-20 November), was somehow both unique and familiar. It was also surreal, absurd and a performance that this reviewer has no yardstick

Dec 2, 2021

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History·Uncategorized

Review: Arise: Power, Strategy & Union Resurgence

Arise: Power, Strategy & Union ResurgenceBy Jane HolgatePluto Press, 2021 Reviewed by Michael O’Brien While being a historical and contemporary study of rising and falling fortunes of the British trade union movement, there is much in this book of interest to activists

Nov 13, 2021

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

Why is everyone talking about Squid Game?

By Finn McKenna *Spoiler alert throughout* Squid Game has the entire world talking. The series based in South Korea is the most watched show on Netflix of all time; 110 million Netflix viewers have streamed the show. Considering the series was only

Oct 31, 2021

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Review: What Britain did to Nigeria by Max Siollun

Hurst Publishers, 2021 Reviewed by Manus Lenihan The Black Lives Matter movement in the United States last year raised new questions for millions of people about racism and the history of slavery. But it also encouraged more people to think about imperialism.

Oct 19, 2021

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