Culture
POETRY: We are the public workers of New York City
April 23, 2020Chris Butters, a member of DC 37, AFSCME, wrote the following poem in 2013 in response to the destruction wreaked upon New York City by Hurricane Sandy.
Read more‘Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’: British author exposes Great Money Trick of capitalism
April 22, 2020Working-class readers have widely embraced the novel as an important text about their experience, written from their own point of view.
Read moreClass and corona culture: The more things change…
April 21, 2020In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the coronavirus has created a brave new world.
Read moreThe Kaminski method: Tight, taut WWII action in ‘Enemy Lines’
April 20, 2020As people grapple with a planetary pandemic, an exciting new movie is premiering just in time to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of our last global conflagration.
Read moreDrowning with our money belts: Putting profits before people in time of crisis
April 17, 2020Revisiting the wisdom of fables is not nostalgia for childhood; perhaps, instead, it is the imperative self-critical practice that will reconnect us to the wisdom we possessed as children.
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