Category: Review

  • Film Review: Slumdog Millionaire

    Directed by Danny Boyle You would expect a film that has won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and seven Bafta Awards, and has been nominated for ten Academy Awards to be outstanding, or at least have some qualities that can inspire. But Slumdog Millionaire, despite the hype, failed to transcend the parameters of…

  • British rule in Asia: the poisoned legacy

    The British empire dominated South and South East Asia, maintaining its power through the cynical manipulation of ethnic and religious division, alongside brutal repression. It could not, however, hold out against rising workers’ and nationalist movements, particularly after the second world war. As the 60th anniversary of Indian independence approaches, PETER TAAFFE comments on the…

  • Brutal face of India’s boom

    This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party The publication of an Indian edition of Marxism in Today’s World is timely. All the questions which are posed in the course of the dialogue between myself and an Italian Marxist are the same…