The film ‘Selma’ and Brian Jackson live: a review
Martin Luther King and his supporters fought a titanic battle for suffrage in Selma, Alabama. Brian Jackson was Gil Scott-Heron’s writing partner and pianist. Together they produced some of the most insightful music of the 1970s. Here, Nick Grant reviews the new film Selma and Brian Jackson’s gig in London.
Greece: stunning victory for radical left Syriza, but fascist vote holds up
Here is a result to cheer the left across Europe and beyond. Voters have given the radical left Syriza victory in Greece’s parliamentary elections. Syriza has won, and won handsomely.
Some dangers with the ‘Je suis Charlie’ movement
Four million people marched across France yesterday in the wake of the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket that left 17 people dead. The Unity march was, according to some, the biggest demonstration since the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Charlie Hebdo attack – the importance of antiracist unity
We write, horrified and with a sense of foreboding, after the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo that has left at least 12 dead.
The Interview, the Sony hack, North Korea and the future of political film
The hack on Sony and the cancellation of comedy film The Interview have wider implications – for political film and censorship as well as international relations.
Stik’s street art – everyone needs a home!
I took the Piccadilly line westwards from Kings Cross – my destination was Acton Town.