A tonic for the current time: Brecht’s poems, less well-known than his plays, also illustrate the passion of his political beliefs.
culture & reviews
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Based on revelatory findings in Marx’s unpublished notebooks, Kohei Saito identifies the author of Capital as the first ecosocialist.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.
The Long Hot Summers
A stirring poem by Nellie Wong delivered at a July 5, 2019, “Stop Deportations!” protest in San Francisco initiated by the Freedom Socialist Party.
On the Front Line of Freedom
Educator and author Merle Woo delivered this rousing poem connecting gender, sexuality, race and class as a featured speaker for San Francisco’s Pride rally in 1981.
