The fall of art and the rise of slop
The media has been dominated by massive corporations who only want to give us more of what has turned a profit in the past, locking these art forms into a state of stagnation and repetitiveness.
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
This new documentary revisits an essential episode in Quebec’s class struggle: the occupation of the city of Sept-Îles by militant workers in 1972
L’Argent: money and alienation
L’Argent (1983), the final film by Robert Bresson, explores the ways that money controls our lives.
Book recommendation: L’établi, by Robert Linhart
In L’établi, Robert Linhart recounts his experience as a worker on an assembly line in a large Citroën car factory in 1968-1969.
A muse of fire: art, society and revolution
Art has accompanied us throughout the history of our species. While it has its own laws of development, the history of art also reflects the fundamental, revolutionary changes that have shaped human society.
Claude McKay: All empires will crumble into sand
McKay was a steadfast advocate for the American working class, confident in its capacity for change.
Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’: Materialism, determinism and freedom
A recurring theme in the science fiction work of Isaac Asimov is the relationship between determinism and freedom. A question which is of particular interest to Marxists: can we really predict human history?
The Name of the Rose: Who’s afraid of reason?
The Name of the Rose invites us to beware of those who reject reason and who seek to obscure reality with idealistic explanations.
Film review: ‘The Cassandra Cat’
Check out The Cassandra Cat if you want an original, artistic view of life under Stalinism, and how the revolution will sweep all bureaucrats aside.
Film Review: The Zone of Interest
The psychology of the petty bourgeoisie under fascism, its individualist mindset and narrowness of vision, finds powerful expression in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest.