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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
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 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