Top ten TV shows of 2008 Continuing our series of year-end reviews, Libcom presents our pick of the best television programmes broadcast in the UK in 2008.
Resistance to job cuts at the University of Salford gathers steam Around 150 job losses have been forecast by opponents as part of large cuts across the university,…
Greek riots eyewitness reports - 16 December 2008 Updates through Tuesday on the situation in Greece, including the occupation of the state television station and a roundup of arrests.
Art - reading guide libcom.org's guide to further reading around the subject of art, film, music and literature.
Happy-Go-Lucky, directed by Mike Leigh (2008) Belying his miserabilist reputation, Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky celebrates incorrigible optimism – but with the usual twists, finds Tom Jennings
Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth (Channel 4) and the White season, BBC 2 (2008) A rash of TV documentaries explain away tense British resident-immigrant relations with typical middle-class prejudice in reproducing forty years of media and state-managed mystifications of the ravages of capitalism, according to Tom Jennings.
Venezuela: The case of RCTV and the fictional democratization of communication El Libertario's position in the debate on the case of RCTV, where the current government overturns the capitalist private oligopoly of TV to the monopoly of a bureaucratic and authoritarian state.
Britz, dir. Peter Kosminsky, Channel 4, 2007. Television review – Tom Jennings Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.
The Street, by Jimmy McGovern, BBC 1, November-December 2007. Television review Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .
Urban riots and their reportage - Tom Jennings, 1992 Tom Jennings’ 1992 essay on current affairs media and their coverage of urban riots
Greece: general strike by public service workers Public service workers in Greece have gone on strike, for the second time in two months, to defend their pensions.
