Culture

3 Minutes

Labour Review

Beautifully shot, but film of 1919 strike a missed opportunity

PV September 18, 2019

Stand! (2019) Director: Robert Adetuyi Writers: Rick Chafe, Danny Schur Reviewed by Stephen Seaborn Stand!, the feature length drama about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, charmed audiences with its world première at this month’s...

5 Minutes

Review

“Hot-house flower” from the muck of brutal racism

PV September 14, 2019

Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, by Gerald Horne (Monthly Review Press, 2019). 456 pages Historian Gerald Horne, Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of...

3 Minutes

Review

Winnipeg General Strike pops off the page

PV September 1, 2019

1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike, by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester, published by Between the Lines, 2019, 107 pages, ISBN 978-1-77113-4209-0 (softcover). Review by Kimball Cariou “A picture...

4 Minutes

Music Notes

Music Notes: Johnny Clegg, 1953-2019

PV September 1, 2019

Johnny Clegg, the South African musician who defied apartheid by forming two highly successful biracial bands, died at his home in Johannesburg on July 16 after a long fight with cancer. Clegg’s first band,...