art and culture
Avante! Festival at 50
Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies joined the 50th anniversary of the Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) from Sept. 4 to 6 in Seixal, Portugal,
“Sinners”: A Marxist take on Hollywood and Black storytelling
Films telling the stories of Black people getting the recognition that Sinners is getting are few and far between. Particularly films that challenge the status quo and so-called “tried and...
Reactionary imagery and MAGA’s far-right aesthetics
Reactionary imagery acts as a pedagogy of perception, not through communication, but by command. It attempts to train the audience in the “correct” way to perceive the world and measure...