Being written for presentation at ‘Marx at the Movies’, these notes address the topic from an angle which is rarely treated in film and video scholarship, that of the peculiar labour process and mode of production involved.
Events since the near-death experience of finance capital in 2008 have succoured renewed attention not to Marxism as a political creed but to Marx as the urtext of the proper analysis of the capitalist system. On the one hand, old … Continue reading
The riots which started in North London, and astonished everyone by spreading so quickly through the city and round the country, have produced massive cognitive dissonance throughout the media—mainstream and social—for which they provide a new and highly polysemic symbol … Continue reading
Banner Theatre’s 1 May Band perform a number from their new show, Cabaret Against the Cuts, on a visit to Chelmsford TUC. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20821923[/vimeo] See www.bannertheatre.co.uk
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20236904[/vimeo] At Saturday’s Progressive London conference, I caught up with comedian Josie Long and Mehdi Hasan, the NS’s political editor, and listened to Unite’s Len McKluskey and False Economy‘s Clifford Singer, plus ukuncutactivists take on Barclays Bank and South London celebrates a Carnival Against … Continue reading
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20008781[/vimeo] The repercussions of the cuts in Higher Education are being felt in Bristol, where lecturers at the University of the West of England (UWE) have been forced to take strike action over threats to staffing. Here I report on the … Continue reading
For the last few weeks I’ve been out and about filming moments in the developing protest movement against the unconscionable coalition government and its programme of swingeing cuts in every department of social provision. The result has been a number … Continue reading
Report on Netroots UK, 8 January 2011 [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/18653603[/vimeo]
One of Nina Power’s photos from 9 December protests
The last few weeks have seen a new spate of agitational web videos, accompanying the amazing upturn of politicking in Britain in response to the brutal, ill-considered and philistine cuts proposed by the coalition government which took office last May.