GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a compelling behind-the-scenes documentary about the founding of Extinction Rebellion and its summer of mass protests in 2019
Extinction Rebellion protest outside the BBC's HQ in London
CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
Rebellion (15)
Directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sanchez Bellot
“IF YOU’RE not in prison, you’re not in resistance,” advocates Roger Hallam — one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion — in this compelling documentary about the birth and rise of the global environmental movement.
With unprecedented access, filmmakers Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sanchez Bellot follow a group of ordinary people and capture the behind-the-scenes story of how XR was launched in 2018 on a commitment to save the planet with non-violent civil disobedience.
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