Chico Buarque’s ‘Construção’: Art against dictatorshipThis is not just poetry — it is the reality of millions under capitalism: men and women who produce the wealth of society, but whose lives are treated as disposable.
One Piece: A symbol of the Gen Z revolutionIn the fight against the oppressive World Government of One Piece, fans of the story see a reflection of their own fight. But possibly even more important than the plot, is the spirit that One Piece embodies.
The fall of art and the rise of slopThe 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 ordinaireThis 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 alienationL’Argent (1983), the final film by Robert Bresson, explores the ways that money controls our lives.
Book recommendation: L’établi, by Robert LinhartIn 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 revolutionArt 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 sandMcKay was a steadfast advocate for the American working class, confident in its capacity for change.
Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’: Materialism, determinism and freedomA 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.