Articles by Faline Bobier
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May 08, 2024: Civil War provides no answers to the current political crisisThere have been a lot of superlatives for British director Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War.
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Apr 08, 2024: Save public healthcare: Mass rally, May 30Last spring saw an incredible mobilization by the Ontario Health Coalition, a network of local health coalitions in cities and...
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Mar 01, 2024: Poor Things - Steam-punk Frankenstein feminismGreek director Yorgos Lanthimos is not afraid of the weird or quirky as his previous films attest.
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Aug 22, 2023: Age of catastrophe“The world lives in the shadow of catastrophe.
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Dec 02, 2022: Together we can stop Ford's plan to destroy public healthcareOver 270 people joined an online Emergency Town Hall meeting for Toronto on November 29, one of a series of...
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Nov 10, 2022: Ford guts public healthcare, rewards profiteersAt a press conference on October 26, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) delivered proof that the Ford government lied about...
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Jan 06, 2022: What to watch during a pandemic, omicron editionHere in Ontario movie theatres are again being shut down, along with gyms, restaurants, etc.
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Dec 15, 2021: What is State Capitalism?Recent events on the global front have underlined the importance of what might have been seen as a dead theory,...
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May 27, 2021: Review: Raoul Peck: Exterminate all the brutesThis year’s Oscars was the least-viewed Academy Awards telecast on record in the United States, with 10.
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Mar 04, 2021: Judas and the Black Messiah directed by Shaka King: ReviewShaka King’s new movie Judas and the Black Messiah comes at a critical political moment in the US.
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Jan 04, 2021: Review: Bruce Springsteen’s - Letter to you“I’m in the middle of a 45-year conversation with these men and women I’m surrounded by and with some of...
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Sep 15, 2020: Capitalism is the CrisisThe COVID-19 pandemic is a once in a lifetime health and economic crisis but the solutions being put forward by...
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Aug 12, 2020: Ideas and experience: how I became a socialistLike many comrades, for me it all started with reading.
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Jul 21, 2020: Capitalism, oppression and 'cancel culture'As we live through a historic health, economic and environmental crisis with catastrophic consequences for people around the world, and...
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Jun 25, 2020: Spike Lee’s take on The American War: Da 5 BloodsSpike Lee’s new movie streaming on Netflix, “Da 5 Bloods,” couldn’t come at a better, or a more appropriate time...
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May 13, 2020: Review: A Rebel’s Guide to Engels by Camilla RoyleThis is the way Camilla Royle begins her Rebel’s Guide to Engels.
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Apr 04, 2020: What to watch during a pandemicThe sheer amount of information (and mis-information, if you are listening to the orange monster) on Covid 19 can be...
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Feb 25, 2020: We all live in the same country now: that of capitalism - Parasite reviewThe biggest surprise of this year’s movie awards season came at the Oscars – the pinnacle of Hollywood success and...
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Jan 03, 2020: Does "human nature" make socialism impossible?We’ve all heard the arguments against socialism.
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Oct 10, 2019: Lack of ideas, not violence, pulls the Joker downTodd Phillip’s new film Joker is about the birth of the iconic Batman villain whom we have seen in several iterations by...