Goodbye Lenin is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. A working class single mother, Christiane, and her 20-year old son,...

EMPIRE DEFEATED, the new book by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, has been published at a time when many are drawing parallels between the Vietnam War and the war and occupation of Iraq....

Michael Moore said "barring success", Stupid White Men, (reviewed in The Socialist, issue 254), would be his last book. But last year when George W Bush was supposedly so popular, it was the leading...

Whale Rider, is one of the most stunning and thought provoking films released this year. Director Niki Caro sensitively weaves together realistic storytelling and myth, calling on the mystical qualities of the New Zealand...

Michael Franti and Frontline. Everyone Deserves Music Michael Franti has become a cultural icon of revolution amongst a growing number of musicians who feel compelled to speak their minds about the current human situation. Franti's...