From The Ground Up: Lessons Learned At The Local Level
We have collected the following vignettes and anecdotes from R&R comrades and friends, highlighting lessons learned in organizing at the local level.
Category: Arts and Culture
Issue 18: Workers, Arts, and Oligarchs
This issue traces the ongoing battle between workers and oligarchs for cultural and political dominance — what Gramsci calls hegemony. It is great fight that rages from the factory floor to the art museum, from campuses to the countryside. At …
Recording What’s Obvious: A Review of A24’s Civil War
Movie Review: Civil War Attempts to Navigate Modern America’s Increasing Polarization But Misses What’s Causing It A24’s new film Civil War has a simple message: War is war. It’s a statement that says nothing about the underlying causes of violence …
Resisting Climate Despair
By Meg Morrigan Breaking the Hegemony of Fatalism in the Face of the Climate Crisis and Capitalist Decline – with Solarpunk and Acid Communism The world is careening towards climate catastrophe at ever-increasing rates. The overwhelming sense that there is …
Culture: Politics of the Stars
By Alex Moni-Sauri Astrology and Other Forms of Mysticism Experience an Upsurge. Capitalist society sells us a world of myth: the myth of meritocracy, of the American Dream, of bourgeois democracy, of an equal relationship between ruling and working classes. …
The Day Tom Brady Retired
By Bryan Watson Today, Tom Brady retired. It’s been weighing on my mind. Tom Brady is like John Madden or Betty White – cultural icons that have passed. Most people in the US have heard of them. They filled decades. …
How Not To Save The World: “Don’t Look Up” Tells It How It Is
McKay’s decision to use an impending comet as his metaphor for climate change in his new film Don’t Look Up is incredibly effective.