Culture
A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills
December 16, 2021Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?
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Frank Chapman, veteran activist, tackles Black Liberation and national question in book
December 15, 2021Chapman’s latest book, Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism, traces the history of and connections between the struggle for socialism and the African American freedom movement.
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‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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Canadian Communist movement celebrated in new feature-length documentary
December 13, 2021A Century of Struggle: One Hundred Years of the Communist Party of Canada covers the panoramic history of the party—from its outlaw origins amid the ferment of the early labor movement to the urgent demands of the...
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Boxing, crime, and capitalism: Gerald Horne’s ‘The Bittersweet Science’ reviewed
December 8, 2021Incitement to murder for a thrill in general, and gambling returns in particular, transcends boxing per se, but emanates from a culture that views workers and oppressed people as things and treats force and violence as...
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