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Lessons of the Egyptian Spring
Revolution 2.0 shows that a brilliant use of social media during rebellion is no substitute for revolutionary parties that have absorbed the lessons of previous struggles for socialism.
Get Out and Sorry to Bother You get deep about race and class
Two brilliant films creatively use Afro-surrealism to blast their political targets.
Boots Riley on everything from electoral politics to Oakland history
A fascinating Democracy Now! interview with the communist, multi-talented creator of Sorry to Bother You.
Standing tall and fighting back
Palestinians tell their own story in The Last Earth. Author Ramsey Baroud teaches Palestinian history “as told by its tenacious victims, not barefaced aggressors.”
ABC cancels Roseanne reboot after Barr’s racist tweet. Good riddance.
“A semi-complete history” of her reactionary tweets from vox.com. Plus: An FSP presidential slate went head to head with pseudo-candidate Barr in 2012.
Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
A new documentary on Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry, 1960s-era Black radical and artist.
Raoul Peck: ‘I’m Not in the Movie Business to Make Films’
Raoul Peck, creator of the James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro, says he made the just released Young Karl Marx for today’s generation of youth.
Democracy and Revolution by George Novack
A Marxist thinker on why capitalism is hard-wired to be less and less democratic
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
Is Trump mentally ill? And does it matter?
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