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The Thing to Be Done

Carmen Gray / November 5, 2025

LABOUR: A frontline portrait of cross-border exploitation and quiet solidarity.

DOK Leipzig, FADE IN, labour, marxism, neocolonialism, One World Romania, socialism, Srđan Kovačević, The Thing to Be Done, Third World

Third World

Nick Holdsworth / August 18, 2025

MUSIC: The liminal experience of legendary Croatian band Haustor – which shaped the former Yugoslavia new wave music scene in the 1980s – is explored in Arsen Oremović’s Third World.

Arsen Oremović, Balkans, civil war, communist, Haustor, Interfilm, music, Sarajevo Film Festival, Third World, Yugoslavia, Zagreb

Hopeless endeavours down the supply chain

Nick Holdsworth / March 6, 2020

CAPITALISM: No justice in a world where Third World workers are as disposable as the cheap garments they make.

Amir Aziz, Ammar Aziz, capitalism, Christopher Patz, climate denial, Czech, Discount Workers, Extinction Rebellion, Germany, Grief, Hindu, ILO, Indian subcontinent, injustice, Karachi, KIK, muslim, Pakistan, poverty, Stefan Kloos, Third World, Veronika Janatkova, Western corporation

Forty years in Nicaragua, dreaming

Carmen Gray / March 6, 2020

LIFE: Shot over 40 years, an epic about one woman’s struggle for independence requiring her to face her past in the macho-culture of Central America.

Bilbao, domestic violence, exploitation, Germany, Hindu, idealism, ILO, Indian subcontinent, injustice, Karachi, KIK, life, muslim, Nicaragua’s, Ninosca, nostalgia, Pakistan, Peter Tobiornsson, poverty, Sandinista, Stina Gardell, Third World, time, undocumented worker, Western corporation

Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema-cover

Filmatic rebellion

Mikkel Bolt / March 5, 2020

CINEMA: Morgan Adamson’s Enduring Images brings new life to the 1960s revolutionary film and reminds us of the need to fight the prevailing forms of representation.

Arab Spring, Assad, Ben Ali, but, Cairo, cinema, communism, control, dialectical materialism, donald trump, Egypt, Guy Debord, late capitalist, marxism, migrants, Mubarak, New, New Left, Occupy Wall Street, rebellion, Soviet Union, Stalinist, submission, Third World, Trotsky, Tunisia, Victor Serge