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  1. Social justice themes taken up in French film festival

    Twist) set in 1960’s post-colonial Mali. Inspired by the revolutionary hopes of national freedom, it is ... Authentik is a biopic showing the rise of the French hip-hop duo, Suprême NTM. In the early 1990s, rap music ...

  2. Full-blooded art, antiseptic gallery

    gateposts, it allows us to read the rise and fall of the century’s revolutionary sentiment. In the early 20th ... pre-capitalist, unalientated freedom of African art with the liberty beckoning via machine age technology and ... through to a sense of personal freedom by identification with black bebop jazz culture and bohemianism ...

  3. Toussaint Louverture brought to life in play, book

    Spanish, thus passing on the torch of freedom. However, Haiti continued to be preyed upon by European and ... illustrating Black freedom-fighting traditions. He recruited to his cast singer Paul Robeson, the son of a US ... slave, who was at that time beginning his meteoric rise to stardom on the English stage. Robeson leapt at ...

  4. How globalised super-exploitation makes modern capitalism tick

    Bank and International Monetary Fund diktats on tariff cuts and freedom for capital flows. The ... there was a rise in relative surplus value from labour-saving technology. That reduced the value of ... education, which rising productivity could subsidise. But nowadays, Smith argues, Southern workers are ...

  5. 'Malcolm X: Live like him! Dare to struggle, dare to win!'

    1946-'52 stint in prison, his rise as a radical preacher in Harlem and his final frantic period of trying ... to map out an alternative path for Afro-American liberation allied to the rising African ... made in the struggle for freedom and I’m one person who’s for giving them all the leeway possible ...