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Phil Butland on 22/10/2020
As the film starts, we listen to a narrative about an “accident” at work. A Polish worker was dragged into a machine in a meat factory. The circumstances are still […]
Phil Butland
Phil Butland is a socialist from Bradford, Northern England. He founded the Berlin LINKE Internationals and is now active with The Left Berlin and Sozialismus von Unten (SvU). Alongside his political activities, Phil is the curator of the CinePhil Berliner Film Blog
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Phil Butland on 19/10/2020
Yehudit Yinhar (YY), an artist and activist based in Berlin, is co-founder of the School for Unlearning Zionism, which is running a series of online events and an exhibition this […]
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Phil Butland on 09/10/2020
On the 80th anniversary of John Lennon's birth, we republish this article, originally written for the 75th anniversary
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Phil Butland on 06/10/2020
On 6 October 1960, the film Spartacus opened in New York City’s DeMille Theatre. TIME magazine celebrated “a new kind of Hollywood movie: a super-spectacle with spiritual vitality and moral […]
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Phil Butland on 17/07/2020
Everyone’s talking about ‘cancel culture’, although there is no clear definition about what it actually is. This discussion is, to a large part, down to an article published in Harpers […]
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Phil Butland on 26/04/2020
On the 83rd anniversary of the bombing of Guernica, we republish this article from our old Website, originally written for the 80th anniversary.
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Phil Butland on 07/04/2020
Reports that Angela Merkel's government is dealing well with the Covid pandemic are not based in reality
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Phil Butland on 09/01/2020
On the anniversaries of David Bowie's birth and death, we reproduce an obituary by Phil Butland from our old Website
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Phil Butland on 14/12/2019
Phil Butland, joint speaker of the Berlin LINKE Internationals, tries to make sense of Boris Johnson’s landslide victory
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Phil Butland on 30/05/2019
It’s one of the most celebrated scenes in film history. A man kneels in rags on an empty beach. As the camera pans out we see a familiar shape in […]
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Phil Butland on 03/02/2019
In 2015, within 3½ months of each other, two important things happened [1]. On 27th May, David Cameron announced that there would be a referendum on Brexit. And on 12th […]
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Phil Butland on 18/11/2018
Why Sahra Wagenknecht's Aufstehen movement is more about making concessions to racism than building a real movement