The Unexpected, by Helen Collier. A working-class Black woman of today exposes the pain and degradation of slavery, and the necessity of Black and white women consolidating against today’s racist USA.
culture & reviews
A funny, outrageous take on class war
Parasite brilliantly exposes the unbridgeable gap between rich and poor — in South Korea this time. Fearless and funny, it helps movie-goers see the dark side. It deserves all the awards!
Bertolt Brecht and the poetry of resistance
A tonic for the current time: Brecht’s poems, less well-known than his plays, also illustrate the passion of his political beliefs.
Joker: Just another comic book movie?
Or does it say something about the world?
New insights into Marx’s environmentalism
Based on revelatory findings in Marx’s unpublished notebooks, Kohei Saito identifies the author of Capital as the first ecosocialist.
Review: The Last Black Man In San Francisco
A gripping film about the racist, anti-working class character of gentrification.
Letters to the editor — October 2019
Readers’ opinion on Freedom Socialist articles.
NFL’s massive cover-up of concussions
Outrage climbs at football league’s racism and greed
The life and tragic death of a Salvadoran revolutionary poet
“Communism will be, among other things, an aspirin the size of the sun.” — Roque Dalton
No Friend but the Mountains
A Kurdish refugee from Iran lays bare Australian detention cruelties.
