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
7 December 1975: Indonesian invasion of East Timor
“I hope my film is seen by right wing people”
30 November 1999: The Battle of Seattle
“I observe a huge gap between the activists of Die Linke and the position of the party in general”
15 November 1884 - start of Berlin conference
“The reason the housing crisis continues is because there are people benefitting from it”
9 November 1918: Karl Liebknecht announces a “free German socialist republic”
Why a legal response to the genocide in Gaza is necessary but insufficient
30 October 1947 - Bertolt Brecht appears before the House Un-American Committee
23 October 1956 - Start of Hungarian revolution