Saturday, 9 March 2013

Cartoons all Revolutionary Socialists should make their kids watch, Part V Pom Poko

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Pom Poko (Studio Ghibli 1994) What it’s about: In my previous entry about Princess Mononoke I talked a little about heavy indust...
Wednesday, 30 January 2013

On Novel to Film adaptations

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Film and Prose fiction are very different medium, so even when you're talking about the same story, characters and content you are never...
Monday, 24 December 2012

Christmas At the Sharp End

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A short story I wrote for my creative writing class a couple of years ago.  Briefly e-published, now available here for free to anyone who w...
Friday, 14 December 2012

Cartoons all Revolutionary Socialists should make their kids watch, Part IV Cities of gold

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Mysterious Cities of G old (TV Series, DiC Entertainment and Studio Pierrot 1983) What it’s about: The year is 1532 and we are...
Friday, 1 June 2012

Cartoons that all revolutionary socialists should make their kids watch, Part III Flight of Dragons

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Flight Of Dragons (Animated feature, Rankin Bass 1982) What its about: As the age of magic draws gives way to the age of r...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

Cartoons that all revolutionary socialists should make their kids watch, Part II Princess Mononoke

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Now for another of my occasional series on how to get your kids into communism using cartoons (see part 1 for my spurious justifications ...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Race, Class and Reasoning. The Formation of the Early Rastafari Movement, 1932-1938

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Watching Marley at the QFT with some friends earlier in the week reminded me of this essay I did while I was at Essex. I always had half an...