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After a two-year break, the International Journalism Festival was back in Perugia. Journalists from all over the world discussed pressing issues facing the news industry such as the rise of hybrid newsrooms, reader revenue models, the coverage of the climate crisis, news innovation and the media side of the war in Ukraine. A little publicised … [Read more…]

by Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos Continued from previous issue The film employs new modes of expression using a variety of lenses, agile hand-held cameras with light-sensitive technology with impressive sound experiments, and electronic sounds and music. These showcase the dialectical relationship between form and content, between political clarity and aesthetic sensibility. Ivens often emphasised … [Read more…]

Annette Beaumanoir was born in Brittany, France, in 1923.  Her father, Jean, came from a wealthy family but was cut off with a shilling when he insisted on marrying his beloved, Marthe, the daughter of a lowly farm worker.  The family was progressive and anti-fascist, with Jean and Marthe supporting the International Brigades in Spain … [Read more…]

On 15 April 2022 progressive people the world over celebrated the 110th anniversary of the birth of Korea’s founding father, the great revolutionary leader, Comrade Kim Il Sung. Comrade Kim Il Sung led the Korean people in the long and arduous struggle for emancipation from imperialist oppression and feudal backwardness, throughout such severe challenges as … [Read more…]

The Russian intervention in Ukraine, depicted ludicrously by Boris Johnson as an unprovoked attack upon a democratic country, is in fact the very belated response to a slowly unfolding aggression against Russia which has been waged over three decades. The military challenge to this long erosion of Russian security has been a long time coming … [Read more…]

On 2 March 2022 the Trotskyite-revisionist led Stop The War coalition convened a meeting at Conway Hall in London to protest about the war in Ukraine. Comrades who attended noted the following: All the speeches consisted of 1. self felating for previous mobilisations against the Iraq war, 2. Russia bad and should immediately leave Ukraine.  Russia … [Read more…]

The greatest danger the world is now faced with is high-handedness and arbitrariness of the United States and its vassal forces that are shaking international peace and stability at the basis. The US unilateral and unfair cold war mentality and its bloc-forming external policy make the structure of international relations be transformed into the one … [Read more…]

Statement from Cuba’s Revolutionary Government,  February 28, 2022 The US determination to continue NATO’s progressive expansion toward the Russian Federation’s borders has brought about a scenario with implications of unpredictable scope, which could have been avoided. United States’ and NATO’s military moves toward regions adjacent to the Russian Federation in recent months are well known, … [Read more…]

An article by Mike Whitney dated 15 February 2022 reproduced from Global Research, with thanks.  Although written before Russia commenced operations in Ukraine, it nevertheless is useful for drawing attention to US imperialism’s  goading of Russia as a means of causing an irreparable rift between Russia and Germany in order to put paid to the … [Read more…]

On 1 January this year a few hundred people demonstrated in the city of Zhanaozen, which lies a thousand miles southwest of Nur Sultan (formerly Astana), the capital city of Kazakhstan.  Originally begun as a protest against a steep hike in the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), the favourite fuel for cars in the … [Read more…]