4+ hour ago  (747+ words) The Chapo Trap House comic book, Year Zero #1, is a collection of horror stories with a clear political message: liberal capitalism is not failing accidentally " it is functioning as designed, producing horror as a by-product of stability. Chapo Trap House,…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1442+ words) At the sprawling JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, 3,800 workers from around the world have united to carry out the largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years. Immigrant workers from around the world are on strike at one of the…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1563+ words) Annemarie Jacir's Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti'colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force " and shows how its legacy still shapes the present. Still from Palestine 36. (Watermelon Pictures) In this candid conversation, Jacir lays out the historical context and framework…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1135+ words) Despite corporate and elite attempts to wrest football from ordinary people, it remains a site of struggle for community and belonging amid capitalist alienation. The upcoming World Cup will showcase the game and its contradictions. Football is also by far…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1082+ words) British class society had a dress code: the rich could be flashy, but workers were expected to wear a drab uniform. In the 1950s, England's working-class Teddy Boys and Girls boldly donned pompadours and velvet, giving birth to modern British subculture....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (579+ words) If you haven't set up a password with us yet or need to change an existing one, go here. If you prefer to log in without a password, you can receive a sign-in code instead. Tired of trying to remember…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (886+ words) A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American economy. Roughly 3,800 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 are now on strike at one of the country's…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (193+ words) The death of J'rgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of irrationality in all its forms. Taken seriously, his philosophy provides an indispensable guide in the struggle against oppression. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (359+ words) Our male protagonists " or perhaps men more broadly " are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work. The leading men of this year's Oscar films aren't…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (159+ words) By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens. The Harry Potter books" which have sold hundreds of millions of copies since 1997, making author J. K. Rowling a billionaire " proved to publishers…...