Monthly Archives: October 2013

Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on October 27, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch… GASLAND 2 by Josh Fox and Matthew Sanchez – the frightening story of what fracking is doing to people’s lives in the USA. Over there its called a fracking frenzy as companies are drilling thousands of wells in major … Continue reading →

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Book review; Black Star Britain’s Asian Youth Communities

Posted on October 24, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Black Star; Britain’s Asian Youth Movements by Anandi Ramamurthy (2013) Pluto Press £17.50 South Asian communities have a respected place in the history of the left in this country, a tradition that includes Shapurji Saklatvala, born in Bombay, who was … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on October 20, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch…The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology(DVD) a film made by cuddly philosopher Slavoj Žižek. I love films that try and to educate us about big ideas and Zizek is the opposite (!!) of the usual squeaky clean presenter. The film exposes … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on October 13, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch..the Battle of Algiers (1965) Like the North of Ireland to people in Britain in the 70s, so Algeria was to many French people in the 50s and 60s. An unknown part of the empire that few people visited or … Continue reading →

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Remaking Picasso’s Guernica; a response to fascism

Posted on October 10, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Picasso’s response to the bombing of Guernica in 1937, the painting Guernica, has been an inspiration to anti-fascists across the years and across the world. As the English Defence League threaten to march in Liverpool this weekend, and Tommy Robinson … Continue reading →

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Stop,Look,Listen…my weekly selection of favourite films, books and events to get you out of the house

Posted on October 6, 2013 by lipstick socialist

Watch….the Miners Hymns (2012) by Bill Morrison at the Small Cinema in Moston.. A fascinating film made about the coal industry in the north east of England. Woven into the film is rare footage from the British Film Institute, the … Continue reading →

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