Floyd Kermode

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Issue #2038

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

For readers who are in a hurry to get to the more communist stuff in this communist paper, I’ll be brief. Glass Onion is an...

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Issue #1992

Don’t Look Up

Don’t Look Up is the latest of dark political comedies by Anchorman director/writer Adam McKay.

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Issue #1981

Derry Girls

Derry Girls is genuinely amusing and exciting – well worth a look regardless of the viewer’s ideological bias or how much that viewer is interested in Irish politics.

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Issue #1985

Squid Game

I’ll try not to spoil Squid Game too much, in case there’s anyone out there who has somehow managed to remain un-spoilered.

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Issue #2045

The Swap

Some young people are being educated in silos. They never meet people who are different. Wouldn’t it be great if a few of them could...

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Issue #2045

Immigration: UK Copies Australia

That’s right, you read the headline correctly. Normally it’s the other way round.  Australians copy the UK, at least when we’re not copying the US....

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Issue #2041

Cunking the class system

The UK dangerous for Australians for a few reasons. One reason is that the country that is still legally our colonial overlord is about to...

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Issue #2003

The importance and history of May Day

May Day was chosen as the day for International Workers’ Day in 1889 by the Marxist International  Socialist Congress, in Paris. 1889 is a long...

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Issue #2039

The right to protest should be law

Human rights and freedom are very popular terms at the moment, and it’s not hard to guess who is accused of violating them in Australian...

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Issue #2045

Beating the war drums

Marx noted that in military state capitalism, building and operating the armed forces and the arms manufacturers is the primary activity of government. Last week...

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Issue #2045

Party members in anti-Fascist action

Late last year it was revealed that a Nazi white supremacist organisation known as the National Socialist Network had held a get-together at Legacy Boxing...

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