Adam Booth reviews The Jungle, a moving but devastating play that depicts events at the Calais refugee camp – once home to thousands of migrants fleeing the horrors of war and poverty.
With his latest film, the Death of Stalin, British director and comic writer Armando Iannucci continues with his recurring motif of the cynicism and self-interest of the professional political class. This time, however, the incompetent politicians being lambasted are not those of the Western establishment, but of the Stalinist bureaucracy.
Young Marx is a new comedic play at the Bridge Theatre, set in Soho London, revolving around Karl Marx’s struggle to provide for his family, and fend off spies, creditors, political enemies, and the police, all whilst completing his economic magnum opus, Das Kapital. We publish here a review by members of the Marxist Student Federation, who recently attended one of the first performances.
Owen Walsh of the Leeds Marxists reviews the latest book by science fiction writer and socialist China Miéville: an exciting and inspiring account of revolutionary Russia in 1917 – a wholly worthy effort that deserves to be on any comrade’s reading list in this centenary year of the Russian Revolution.
“We are the lions” is an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the Grunwick strike, hosted at the Brent Musuem and Archives until 27th March. Ravi Mistry reviews the exhibition and explains the importance of this inspiring struggle.
Pat McDonald reviews Martin Williams’ first publication, Parliament Ltd – an excellent insight into the murky depths of political and institutional corruption that brilliantly exposes the true nature of what goes on behind Westminster walls.
Adam Booth reviews the latest film by acclaimed socialist director, Ken Loach, which shines a light on the harsh and degrading conditions faced by thousands – if not millions – in this age of austerity.
Beyond Caring, a modern play that portrays the conditions of workers in modern day, zero-hour Britain, begins a new UK tour today, starting in Birmingham. We are republishing our review of this powerful and poignant play, along with a recent interview with the director, Alexander Zeldin.
Josh Holroyd reviews the latest book by Yanis Varoufakis, And The Weak Suffer What They Must?, in which the former finance minister in Greece offers a potted history of post-war global finance, the rise of the euro, and its spectacular fall, along with his own prognosis and solution for the interminable crisis of European capitalism.
Joe Attard of the KCL Marxists reviewsThe Big Short, an adaptation for the cinema of Michael Lewis’ book of the same name, which depicts the winners of the 2008 financial crash. It is not a story of heroes, but one of lucky capitalists exploiting the stupidity of a system they served.
Ben Gliniecki reviews “Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age”, an exhibition currently running at the Science Museum in London, which is an extraordinary collection of Soviet spacecraft and artefacts – a testament to the fantastic power of a planned economy.
In his book Economics After Capitalism, Derek Wall, International Coordinator of the Green Party, looks at various anti-capitalist movements and theories, and argues that capitalism may be dominant, but it is far from inevitable. A genuine alternative to capitalism is needed and must be fought for.