Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MALLOCH Lachlan
Sicko: Written, directed and produced by Michael Moore. In cinemas nationally from 9 August (in Australia).
Sicko is Michael Moore’s long-awaited follow-up to his phenomenal 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, in which his cinematic guns blazed at the twin targets of US President George Bush’s (…)
, by Hindustan Times
In 1975, two films that went on to become mega-hits, Sholay and Deewar, were released. What stumped critics was the runaway success of another movie released the same year - Jai Santoshi Maa. The film, based on a vrat katha - a story narrated during a religious fast - that had become (…)
, by ANAM Tahmima, CHABAL Emile
Tehmina Anam is the author of the important novel ’A Golden Age’.
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Curious to know some of the experiences that went into the making of “A Golden Age”, Emile Chabal decided to meet Tahmima Anam in Cambridge. She came to read excerpts from her book for ’Wordfest,’ (…)
, by BHARAT-RAM Vinay
Why should I defend M F Husain? By doing so I am defending my own identity as an Indian and Hindu. The controversies raised by his detractors over his paintings being “obscene” are laughable.
To make such a claim on the basis of Hindu sentiments is deeply offensive, not only to Hindus of (…)
, by GALSCHIOT Jens
The African women’s NGO Rainbo has been forbidden to exhibit a controversial sculpture at the Your Voice Against Poverty rally at the brink of the Thames in London on 2nd June. The Danish artist Jens Galschiot is astonished. He declares: “I have been censored by totalitarian regimes, but I (…)
, by NAVARRETE Pablo, PILGER John
The War on Democracy will be released in British cinemas on June 15. It will be released in Australia in September 2007. For more information visit http://www.johnpilger.com or http://www.warondemocracy.net. Reprinted from Venezuelanalysis.com.
John Pilger is an award-winning journalist, (…)
, by REHMAN I. A.
THE whole nation has been in the throes of turmoil for many days and the controllers of its affairs are in visible disarray. They are again trying to suppress the symptoms of discontent instead of addressing its causes, although it is now quite clear that all of Pakistan’s problems stem (…)
, by TRIPATHI Salil
The right’s only objection to MF Husain’s depictions of Hindu deities is that they are made by a Muslim, says Salil Tripathi.
Who’s Profane? A Husain interpretation of Lakshmi As you enter London’s netherworld - its labyrinthine underground subway system - you will notice large images of (…)
, by VIQAR Arif
Poems from Arif Viqar (Lahore), a Philosopher/Poet.
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A Thousand Steps From Freedom
A thousand steps Away from the ballot box To vote for freedom
A thousand steps From armed men With orders to shoot down Anyone who votes for freedom
A thousand steps When (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Now that the documents on the former Beatle have been released, I can understand why the information was classified.
After a 25-year legal battle, the UCLA historian, Jon Wiener has managed to secure the final 10 documents relating to the surveillance of John Lennon that the FBI were refusing (…)
, by SEARS Alan
It seems that we all have fewer people to lean on these day. The rate of friendship is falling in the lean world of 21st century capitalism. In very real ways, capitalist restructuring is isolating us from one another and creating a situation in which we all have less time to reach out to (…)
, by BUTLER Simon
Literature and RevolutionBy Leon TrotskyHaymarket Books, 2004$35Available from http://www.resistancebooks.com
The eight chapters that make up Leon Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution were drafted in 1922 and 1923 - a period of severe economic, social and political turmoil for the Bolshevik-led (…)
, by Coalition for Cultural Diversity in Moving Images, Screen Quota Action Alliance
People in the Korean film industry ask people, who hope for a better world, for support and cooperation.
Yielding to the US pressure to slash the film quota as a precondition for the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement negotiation, the Korean government announced, all of a sudden, the reduction of (…)
, by FRASER Gary
25 years after John Lennon’s murder, we look at the ex-Beatle’s political legacy.
Twenty-five years ago this week John Lennon was murdered outside his home in New York City. Countless tributes have been paid to Lennon in the last few months - 9 October would also have been his 65th birthday. (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
The French Marxist Michael Löwy looks at a new exhibition of Dadaist artworks.
The French Centre for Modern Art in Paris is featuring a rich exhibition about Dada until 9 January 2006.
In some 40 interconnected rooms one can hear sounds and see objects, paintings, drawings, documents and (…)
, by WALDRON Linda
In Lahore in early December, I met Toni Usman, a Norwegian actor of Pakistani descent working in Pakistan for a month to produce a special edition of the left-wing newspaper Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers’ Struggle). This January 13 edition was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the (…)
, by SEARS Alan
Some TV critics claim that this year is the beginning of the end for Reality TV. The huge success of the very smart and sharp-edged Desperate Housewives is supposed to mark a return to scripted and professionally acted drama/comedy. This is a good moment, then, to take stock of the Reality TV (…)
London – February 9th 2003
In Sri Lanka, at the tail end of the 1980s, argues Ranjini Obeysekere in her Sri Lankan theatre in a time of terror (Sage Publications: New Delhi 1999), dramatic art was a lonely site of resistance against state authoritarianism and political violence.
Between 1987 (…)
, by RICH Adrienne
That the meek word like the righteous word can bully that an Israeli soldier interviewed years after the first intifada could mourn on camera what under orders he did, saw done, did not refuse that another leaving Beit Jala could scrawl on a wall: We are truely sorry for the mess we (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
What is romanticism? It has been reduced to a literary school of the 19th Century, or to a traditionalist reaction against the French Revolution-two propositions found in countless works by eminent specialists in literary history or the history of political thought. Rather, it is a form of (…)
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