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Sixth edition of Kantamaghna Festival on Saturday in Gozo - Gozo News

Jan 14, 2025 | gozo.news | Joe Attard

A reminder that this coming Saturday, the 18th of January, DCapitals Big Band will present the 6th edition of Kantamaghna – A Singers’ Festival at the Teatru Astra in Victoria. The organisers said that this festival is a huge platform for young talented singers aged between 11 and 35, who will have the opportunity to sing with a live band accompaniment. 30 singers were selected through an auditions phase last November.
Review: ‘Nosferatu’ – ghoulish vampire classic lacks bite | The Communist

Jan 7, 2025 | communist.red | Joe Attard

Warning: this review contains spoilers. “I am an appetite, nothing more,” rasps the demonic vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) in Nosferatu (2024). In this update of an early horror classic, director Robert Eggers delivers a gloriously ghoulish technical masterclass, whose muddled moral message unfortunately lacks bite. The core of the film is Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), whose implied supernatural abilities are dismissed by 19th-century German society as feminine hysteria and ‘melancholy’.
Pro-EU protests in Georgia as western imperialists plot a new Maidan

Dec 11, 2024 | marxist.com | Joe Attard

Protests have rocked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for eight days straight, with angry crowds surrounding the parliament building, bearing Jersualem Cross and EU flags and hurling fireworks at police lines. The opposition at the head of the movement denies the legitimacy of the ‘pro-Russian’ Georgian Dream regime.
Ucrania, Líbano y la farsa de la soberanía nacional

Nov 15, 2024 | marxist.com | Joe Attard

Cuando las tropas rusas entraron en Ucrania en febrero de 2022, se alzó un coro de justa furia por parte de políticos y expertos de Occidente. Un frente unido de países "democráticos" ofreció sus arsenales y abrió sus chequeras para castigar los "crímenes de guerra rusos" y resistir la invasión de una nación soberana. Dos años después, nuestros ilustrados gobernantes democráticos vuelven a ofrecer sus arsenales y a abrir sus chequeras...
Ukraine, Lebanon and the farce of national sovereignty

Nov 14, 2024 | marxist.com | Joe Attard

When Russian troops entered Ukraine in February 2022, a chorus of righteous fury went up from politicians and pundits in the West. A united front of ‘democratic’ countries offered up their arsenals and opened their cheque books to punish ‘Russian war crimes’ and resist the invasion of a sovereign nation.
UNIFIL under fire: Israel vs. the United Nations

Oct 17, 2024 | communist.red | Ravi Mistry |Joe Attard

Israel’s war of words with the United Nations has escalated into deliberate IDF attacks on its peacekeepers in Lebanon. These provocations reveal the embarrassing impotence of the UN and Israel’s sense of utter impunity as it pushes for a new regional war.
UNIFIL under fire: Israel vs. the United Nations

Oct 16, 2024 | marxist.com | Joe Attard

Israel’s war of words with the United Nations has escalated into deliberate IDF attacks on its peacekeepers in Lebanon. These provocations reveal the embarrassing impotence of the UN and Israel’s sense of utter impunity as it pushes for a new regional war.
Who blew up Nord Stream?

Aug 27, 2024 | marxist.com | Joe Attard

The mysterious sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines has all the elements of a Hollywood crime drama: conspiracy, cover-up – and betrayal. A new series of revelations from the German police, published in the American press, purport to blow the case wide open. But when it comes to the Ukraine War, where lies have played an enormous role, we can accept nothing at face value. First, a quick refresher on the story so far.
India: rape and murder of young doctor sparks fury

Aug 15, 2024 | marxist.com | Joe Attard

Details Amidst the pomp and pageantry of Independence Day, a furious protest movement following the rape and murder of a young medic tells the real story of Modi’s India. The Revolutionary Communists of India (RC(I)) demand justice – for the victim of this heinous crime as well as all who suffer under capitalism, which poisons human relations and subjects billions to oppression, violence and misery.
Chinatown at 50: Hollywood’s dark pinnacle

Aug 7, 2024 | marxist.com | Daniel Morley |Joe Attard

Details Art Featured The neo-noir classic Chinatown was released 50 years ago. Despite the controversy surrounding its disgraced director, Roman Polanski, its complex themes and impeccable technical craftsmanship retain all of their impact today. The film is a product of a brief renaissance in 1960s-70s Hollywood, an era that hints at what can be achieved when artists are allowed to freely pursue their ambitions.