Culture
‘Accused’: Finnish composer tackles political interrogations from France, GDR and USA
November 18, 2020Living in a firmly established social democracy, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg probably doesn’t hear very often about political interrogations in his own country, but the subject obviously interests him.
Read more‘The Queen’s Gambit’: A different kind of superhero
November 18, 2020Tired of the formulaic diet of high-density superhero fat clogging our entertainment arteries?
Read moreHow did Álvaro Cunhal’s ‘Five Days, Five Nights’ get its English translation?
November 17, 2020There are only a few Communist Parties in the western world that can claim to have fought a decades-long underground battle against an actually-existing fascist regime and survived.
Read moreNew movie musical about 1919 Canadian general strike takes timely ‘Stand!’
November 16, 2020More than a century later, Winnipeg's 1919 General Strike gets the big screen treatment.
Read moreBook preview: Gus Hall and the Communist campus tour of 1962
November 13, 2020After over a decade of political repression, Communists seemed poised to make a comeback.
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