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The Road to Guantanamo, dirs. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, Channel 4, 9th March 2006. Television review

Review of a docudramatic critique of the War on Terror

Reviews of controversial Oscar nominee for best foreign film

Tom Jennings review Lars von Trier’s follow-up to Dogville.

Film review that glimpses seeds of hope in Lower City’s vividly lurid portrayal of the seamier side of lowlife.

Review of Stefan Szczelkun’s documentation of grass-roots culture in these DVDs and an extraordinarily rich website.

Küba’s multitude of screens give a fascinating but flawed portrayal of community.

BBC2’s fascinating ‘The Power of Nightmares’ (Adam Curtis, 2004) documentaries offer nothing new, argues Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings’ review of a ground-breaking site-specific installation.

Tom Jennings’ discussion of Oliver Stone’s 1994 blockbuster in terms of contemporary trends in media and politics.

Tom Jennings’ review of Jane Campion's 2003 postfeminist erotic thriller

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Zanon factory occupation - interview with workers

An excellent set of interviews conducted with workers at the worker-run Zanon ceramics factory, occupied at the time of the Argentine uprising of 2001. It includes historical and background...

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Obsolete communism: The left wing alternative - Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit

In May '68, a student protest at Nanterre University spread to other universities, to Paris factories, and in a few weeks, to most of France. On May 13, a million Parisians marched. Ten...

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Introduction to The Counter-Revolution of 1776

The introduction to Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.