Helen Collier imparts hard truths about racism and slavery’s legacy in her video play.
culture & reviews
Book Review: The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
Bill Gammage documents the real history of Australia.
Big money sports — profit trumps safety
Reopen or not? With fans or not? Owners care about the money. Players and their unions care about their health and about fighting racism.
Mrs. America — how the ERA was lost
A riveting miniseries streaming on Hulu that tells the history of the 1970s battle for women’s equal rights, with important lessons for finishing the fight.
Planet of the Humans takes on green capitalism
“Planet” boldly exposes that corporations profit from green campaigns and discusses real problems. But eco-socialist ideas are missing.
Yolanda Alaniz reads “Who Will Mourn the Laborers?”
Watch Chicana socialist feminist Yolanda Alaniz read her striking poem about the workers most at risk from Covid-19.
Nellie Wong reads “We Eat Chicken Feet and We Are Not Dead”
“Corona virus has no yellow skin nor brown eyes”
The Unexpected: an unflinching fable about slavery and race
Helen Collier exposes the pain and degradation of slavery and the need for African American and white women to unite against racism today.
Parasite: a funny, outrageous take on class war
Set in South Korea, the fearless and funny Parasite brilliantly exposes the unbridgeable gap between rich and poor.
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.
