Joseph Zimmermann
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joseph Zimmermann
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U.S.
Leading communist barnstorms Wisconsin
March 8, 2012Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA, made appearances in Wisconsin Mar. 2 and 3 to lend a hand in the fight for justice.
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Opinion
Movies you might have missed: “The Intruder”
February 14, 2012A 30-year-old William Shatner presents a convincing composite of a hatemonger: the consummate con man, full of easy charm and courtly manners that he uses to ingratiate himself with unsuspecting locals
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Opinion
Left on the bookshelf: “The John Carlos Story”
February 9, 2012The name John Carlos will forever be etched in American history.
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Opinion
Scott Walker’s tangled web
February 6, 2012Walker is gaining a reputation for assembling the motliest crew in modern memory to place their greasy hands on the levers of power, as the Wisconsin media reports one scandal after another.
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Opinion
Movies you might have missed: “Thieves’ Highway”
February 6, 2012One noir film that dealt with explicitly working-class issues was Thieves' Highway (1949) starring Richard Conte in perhaps his finest role.
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Opinion
Left on the bookshelf: “Blacks, Reds and Russians”
January 24, 2012There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.
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Opinion
Movies you might have missed: “Mondays in the Sun”
January 11, 2012Despite the often-depressing vignettes of the characters' plight, the story is ultimately one of the pride and dignity of the working class.
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Opinion
Movies you might have missed: “I Am Twenty”
January 5, 2012Soviet filmmakers were often criticized in the West for producing stories sneeringly termed "boy gets tractor, meets girl."
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