Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race. Steve Latham Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It’s ironic that leftists criticise […]
In Focus
In Focus
What you gonna do when the world’s on fire?
Spurred by the police killings of Black people in 2016, Roberto Minervini decides to make a film about Black America. By slowly absorbing their life in New Orleans, and by formally approaching the Black Panthers he builds a picture. As a film-maker, he calls himself a ‘politically charged citizen’. […]
Off to war with a Camera
The soldiers thought of it as a foreign holiday and so they brought their cameras. Their country has the best –35 mm. Leicas and the Rolleiflex and the Rolleicord were all made there– and its military capability was just as first-rate. Sean Sheehan The war in Spain has […]
He is leaving
My son has bought a flat. In today’s London, given our astronomical property prices, this is a real marker of adulthood. Steve Latham So my daughter is suitably, and simultaneously, jealous, and admiring. She and her partner are having to consider leaving London altogether, to find somewhere to […]
The Caribbean: from integration to unity
Overshadowed by news of the assassination of Haiti’s president and destabilisation attempts against Cuba, the region has bigger problems, such as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the drastic reduction in international tourism, the basis of its economy. Jorge Luna It has also had to endure climatic […]
















