Siobhan McGuirk
Siobhan McGuirk is a Red Pepper commissioning editor.
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Siobhan McGuirk experiences Oil City, an immersive, site-specific play produced by campaign group Platform
Commentators on both sides of the political spectrum say Thatcher ‘death parties’ are the thoughtless, tasteless products of a bandwagon-jumping youth. They should have more imagination, writes Siobhán McGuirk. This is an iconoclastic moment
Siobhan McGuirk speaks to John Akomfrah about his new film – and the 2011 riots
Siobhan McGuirk visits the Occupy camp in Washington DC
Siobhan McGuirk on the way inspiring new documentary Just Do It was made
Siobhan McGuirk reviews ‘Cocaine Unwrapped’, a documentary that asks good questions but avoids too many answers
Siobhan McGuirk traces the history of social realism in British cinema as the genre starts to make a comeback
Maria Felix and Siobhan McGuirk report on the growing protest backlash against the war on drugs in Mexico.
Behind the bloody headlines of Mexico’s war on drugs, creeping militarism and corruption is silencing public dissent. Government policy failures are leading to social breakdown, writes Siobhan McGuirk with Maria Felix
Siobhan McGuirk talks to the Adbusters Media Foundation
Siobhan McGuirk meets collaborative art and architecture practice muf
The feminist fightback against cuts needs to come from the grassroots, says Siobhan McGuirk
Siobhan McGuirk reports on the fight to reclaim Pride in Manchester and beyond
The BBC has barely been out of the headlines in recent months, not least since the publication of its major strategy review. Siobhan McGuirk asked trade unionists and industry figures what they think needs to change at the corporation
The film Burma VJ brings Burma's struggle for freedom into close proximity to its audience and is generating new solidarity efforts as a result. Siobhan McGuirk investigates
A revitalised left needs to consider what exactly it wants before it can determine how to achieve it, says Siobhan McGuirk
Siobahn McGuirk reports from the student occupation at the University of Manchester, the longest in the wave of student militancy over Gaza
Campaigners are exposing the conditions that predominantly women workers suffer in Kenya to bring cheap cut flowers to western Europe, writes Siobhan McGuirk
Siobhan McGuirk talks to Kim Longinotto about the growing interest in documentaries, their potential power to move and stir people and explores what kind of documentaries give people a sense of agency
