“Oil Under Troubled Water” explores Australia’s dirty deals with Timor-Leste. It’s an education every working person needs.
culture & reviews
Food for the mind!
Unfortunately, we are still mid-pandemic. Fortunately, there’s lots of good stuff to watch, listen to, and read. Here’s an internationalist selection.
Review: Redbone and Black History: As Seen Through the Eyes of a Child
Helen Collier imparts hard truths about racism and slavery’s legacy in her video play.
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.