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Markus Joegiches on 21/01/2021
A recent event at Union Berlin has led some to suggest that German football has a racism problem. Is this true, and if it is, who should deal with it?
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Hari Kumar on 07/01/2021
The British Guardian newspaper has sacked their long-standing cartoonist. Is this because of antisemitism or part of the paper's general move to the right? And what does this mean for satire in the UK?
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Phil Butland on 28/12/2020
Despite the closure of cinemas for several months, 2020 was a surprisingly good year for films. There was very little to moan about, if we ignore Sofia Coppola for a moment.
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Arlene Finnigan on 25/12/2020
How did you spend lockdown? Judy Cox wrote a series of pen portraits of largely unknown rebellious women. At first, Judy's essays appeared on her Facebook page and theleftberlin.com. Now they've been released as a book. Arlene Finnigan reviews.
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Phil Butland on 24/12/2020
Just over 18 months ago, the German Bundestag passed a resolution condemning the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement as “antisemitic”. It is non-binding and even the Bundestag research service has called it unconstitutional. But it has already had serious consequences and provoked protests from unexpected sources
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Markus Joegiches on 18/12/2020
The Berlin derby might look like a capitalist juggernaut versus a worker-owned union, but it's much more complicated than that
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Jacinta Nandi on 20/11/2020
Jacinta Nandi's new collection of short stories, The Worst Housewife in the World, draws on her life as a mother of two sons, the duties and burdens of everyday life, and the demands of society – and on how all this is connected with feminism. The reader learns a great deal about Germany, which Jacinta Nandi knows so well precisely because it has always remained a little bit foreign to her. Frédéric Valin talked to her about cheese on toast, care work, and Brexit
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Phil Butland on 02/11/2020
Interviews with Thomas Walter, Pablo Mal Éléve and Sobo Swobodnik - stars and director of the film "Against the Tide"
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Phil Butland on 28/10/2020
A review of the film which is on next Wednesday, 4th November at 7pm. Because of lockdown, it will no longer be in the Moviemento Cinema, but we will be livestreaming both the film and a Q&A with Thomas Walter and Pablo Mal Éléve.
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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 […]
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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 […]