Hong Kong
Film review: Joshua – Teenager vs. Superpower
Prize-winning documentary of young democracy activist offers sympathy, but no solutions
Reviewed by Adam N. Lee, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
This documentary by US screenwriter and director Joe Piscatella profiles 20-year old Hong K...
Features
June 1917: The Bolsheviks “become a power”
100 years since the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
A century ago this week, 500,000 workers and soldiers marched through the Russian capital Petrograd, with tens of thousands joining marches in Moscow, Kiev and othe...
Hong Kong
Snowden movie: US ‘deep state’ in the spotlight
Film review • Campaign for presidential pardon gains momentum
Vincent Kolo, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
Film: Snowden
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rhys Ifans, Melissa Leo, Nicholas Cage
“It’s not about...
Reviews
Revisiting Animal Farm
Allegory of the terrible betrayal of the Russian revolution
Andy Ford reviews George Orwell’s influential story, 70 years since it was first published in 1945
A success almost from the start, Animal Farm was rated among the 100 greatest novels ...
Reviews
Socialism: Past or future?
Review of ‘PostCapitalism: a guide to our future’ by Paul Mason
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) General Secretary
Paul Mason’s latest book, PostCapitalism, presents a vision of a new society, without the horrors of th...
Reviews
’No place to hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance state’
What the 1% will do to defend their class interests
Reviewed by Tony Saunois, CWI
This powerful, gripping and incisive book was first published on 13 May 2014. Glenn Greenwald and, of course, his star whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, have done a...
Reviews
Selma: A Film review
Eljeer Hawkins, SocialistAlternative/USA
“ ...Somewhere in the dream we had an epiphany
Now we right the wrongs in history
No one can win the war individually
It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people's energy…” – Common and John Legen...
Reviews
Hong Kong: How are political parties financed?
Socialist Action refuses money from business or government agencies – our support comes from ordinary people
From Socialist Magazine, issue 30
The issue of funding for political parties and NGOs has become a big issue. During the ‘Umbrella Revo...
China
25 years since the June 4 Tiananmen massacre
Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...
Reviews
How US imperialism helped to foster al Qaeda
Despite their recent propaganda it was US governments that helped to create the Frankenstein’s monster of right-wing islamism and al Qaeda
We here republish a review article from 2004 by Laurence Coates in Socialism Today (journal of the CWI in En...
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Iran’s retaliation attack: From bloodbath in Gaza to the brink of regional conflagration
Unprecedented military response of the regime in Tehran to the provocative Israeli assassination of Iranian generals in Damascus leads to fear of a ch...
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