Satire reveals truths about both the old East Germany and the reunified Germany
Like Good Bye, Lenin!, Berlin Hero is straightforward about the weaknesses of the old East Germany while ruthlessly satirising the capitalist culture of the modern,... Read more.
Varied Demands and Emphasis at Invasion Day Actions Across Major Cities
Speakers emphasised opposing both Black deaths in custody and child separation. Many speakers also referred to the ICE actions in Minneapolis and the mass people's... Read more.
From Hegemon to Predator: Trump’s Brutally Transactional World Order
The 2025 National Security Strategy elevates the pursuit of profits, market share, and resource control to the level of national gospel. It is a masterclass in reactionary... Read more.
The passion of post-WWII German cultural politics
Fans of the various European film festivals that come through Australia each year will remember the slump in quality that immediately followed the COVID pandemic.... Read more.
Trump 2.0: Plunder, Trade War and Hot War
The Trump regime is not just violently restructuring US capitalism to ready for war with China and risking sparking a world trading depression, it is looting the... Read more.
Nuances and contradictions in WA election results
What lessons can both Labor and Liberal federal party strategists take from the WA election? Within the voting patterns there are contradictory movements that could... Read more.
Trump 2.0, Holocaust 2.0, Jim Crow 2.0, US multipolarity and the Three Card Trick
Externally, his intention is on re-ordering the world, with little concern for human civilisation. Internally, he is aiming at achieving a massively anti-democratic... Read more.
An imperialist gaze in colonial Asia
Grand Tour won Gomes the Best Director prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, so it carries cultural weight and deserves to be seriously interrogated. The film... Read more.
Dylan, long on love and music, short on politics
It is probably outside the capacity of the Hollywood machine to deal with the politics. That project remains for a future, more committed production team, because... Read more.
Everything Old is New Again
Desperate Measures could not have come at a better time. Many of the issues that animated that wave of protest are again with us in the form of the AUKUS submarine... Read more.