“It tastes like ashes.”

In Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst takes on the frankly masochistic task of working with Lars Von Trier. The Danish director's work almost exclusively deals with central female characters, who all suffer greatly during the course of the film. Melancholia doesn't degrade it's main character in the same way as Antichrist, or Dogville for that matter; instead the only victim here is the audience.

Listen to Ajit Sahi of CVB News interviewing  Lal Khan, leader of The Struggle in Pakistan, on the political, economic and social conditions in Pakistan and India.

This video was made by Umar Shahid, a comrade of the Pakistani Marxists who publish the newspaper "The Struggle". The video depicts the massive protests that have erupted in Europe against austerity. People from Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Romania and others countries are showing their power. The message is: capitalism is not working,  the only alternative is SOCIALIST REVOLUTION !

View the trailer for "The Battle of Algiers", the film by Gillo Pontecorvo being shown at the Marxist Summer School in June.

View the trailer and read the review for "Capitalism: A love story", the film by Michael Moore being shown at the Marxist Summer School in June.

On Monday the 14 of March six artists from the university of the arts Marxist Society; Nicholas Baldion, Paul Bolton, Hanita Dadswell, Aleksandr Krylov, Jo Stanford and Harry Nielson, hosted the ‘Germ of Revolution’ exhibition which endeavoured to show art that reflects the extraordinary times we are living in. This report includes video footage of exhibition.

Fred Weston, from In Defence of Marxism , speaking at a recent Socialist Appeal day school on Marxist Economics.

Alan Woods being interviewed by Militant Student on 21 January on the student movement. In three parts.

An Introduction to Marxism day school was held at the University of London Union (ULU) building on Saturday, January 22nd. It was hosted by Socialist Appeal and the ULU Marxist society, and covered the 3 component parts of Marxism - Dialectical Materialism, Historical Materialism and Marxist Economics. Now, more than ever, as new layers are beginning to question the existing order of things and look for an alternative to the capitalist system, is it imporant to raise the ideas of Marxism as that alternative. Alan Woods introduced the first session on Dialectical Materialism, which you can view here.

In Hyderabad, Pakistan, on December 12th, students staged a demonstration outside the press club against the proposed privatisation of colleges and condemned the actions of the police against the students and teachers of Punjab. This is a short video of that demonstration, where our comrades showed their solidarity with the student struggle in the UK.

The Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts - a coalition of local trade unionists, workers and councilors - organised a 2,000-strong march in Norwich on December 4th against the governement's cuts agenda. The closing rally was addressed by a number of speakers, including Adam Booth, a student from Cambridge University and supporter of Militant Student who sent solidarity greetings from the occupation in Cambridge.

Cambridge University student Adam Booth, President of the Cambridge University Marxists, explains how the student led occupation set about building support and the next stage of their struggle (NCAC - www.norfolkcoalitionagainstthecuts.org).

Jody McIntyre, who has Cerebral Palsy, was attacked by police twice at the demonstration against the cuts last week. The two videos in this article demonstrate the level to which the police are prepared to sink in their attempts to provoke the student movement, and the complicity of the mainstream media in attempting to blacken the fight of the student movement against the attacks of the Tory government.