Prominent American trade unionist Chris Smalls has released a documentary about his grassroots campaign to unionise Amazon workers. The Communist attended the UK premiere and Q&A with Smalls and the film’s co-directors.
Two exhibitions on the Pre-Raphaelite art movement are currently on show in Birmingham. As well as pursuing aesthetic innovation, the Pre-Raphaelites sought to critique, and even overcome, the harsh, alienating reality of Victorian industrial society.
In the upcoming issue of The Communist, readers review Mach-Hommy’s latest album, Enda Walsh’s film adaptation of ‘Small Things Like These’, Netflix’s ‘Arcane’, the 1954 classic ‘Salt of the Earth’, and the 1937 documentary ‘Tsar to Lenin’.
Ridley Scott’s sequel to his previous sword-and-sandal epic offers more of the same: Colosseum battles, degenerate emperors, and a portrayal of imperial decline. Olive Ruadh compares the film’s fictionalised story to Rome’s historical reality.
With imperialist tensions on the rise, Armando Iannnuci’s new stage adaptation of Kubrick’s Cold War comedy ‘Dr Strangelove’ couldn’t come at a better time. Steve Coogan’s performance accentuates the biting political commentary.
For decades, antibiotics have been irresponsibly overused in healthcare and agriculture, leading to the rise of unstoppable infections. Meanwhile, capitalism and the pharmaceutical giants are holding back the deployment of a viable alternative.
Sean Baker’s latest film – out in cinemas now – is a tragic drama for modern times; a portrayal of the inevitable despair and destruction that the rich and powerful leave in their wake, with the exploited and oppressed always left paying the price.
Ali Abbasi’s latest project ‘The Apprentice’ charts the early years of Donald J. Trump, whose rise to fame and fortune was marked by unscrupulousness and sleaze. But beneath the salacious drama, the film fails to capture the truth behind Trump.
The apocalyptic drama ‘Threads’ (1984) explores what could happen if war in the Middle East escalated into nuclear annihilation, and Britain was obliterated into a barbaric wasteland. 40 years later, this film remains a haunting watch.
Featured in the upcoming issue of The Communist, readers review two recent cinema releases: Coralie Fargeat’s Cronenbergian satirical body-horror ‘The Substance’, and poignant Palestinian tragedy ‘The Teacher’.
Billionaire pop star Taylor Swift is the latest celebrity to endorse Kamala Harris for US President. Despite the liberal establishment’s delusions, this will not win over the youth, who are fed up with the anti-worker, pro-imperialist Democrats.
“kamala IS brat” proclaimed popstar Charli XCX, only a couple of months ago. And so began an unholy alliance between her, Killer Kamala, and the drone-dropping Democrats, keen to lure in Gen Z voters with the saturated, viral cacophony of ‘Brat’.