Murder, McCarthyism and Islamophobia
Articles by Phil Butland
Film Review – Regeln am Band bei hoher Geschwindigkeit
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 unclear, but it was an “accident”. It was like the “Einzelfälle”, or individual cases, which are reported by the German news media whenever another white […]
Yehudit Yinhar on Unlearning Zionism
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 month. ,After claims made about speakers in the October program the KHB turned against the project, blocking the funding and the website of the Kunsthalle […]
John Lennon – Protest from the car boot
On the 80th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth, we republish this article, originally written for the 75th anniversary
60 Years Spartacus
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 force”. The New York Times‘ long-time film critic Bosley Crowther was less excited, dismissing the film as “heroic humbug”, adding that “the middle phase is […]