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“Disclosure Day” Review: Propaganda as profound as a Trump tweet.
Disclosure Day is another remake of a remake, a spin-off of a spin-off that went stale before the smartphone existed. →
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The Beautiful Game, the Cranky Machine: Football, Imperialism, and Working-Class Histories
The working class built the beautiful game. The ruling class has been flogging it to Gulf petrostates ever since and calling it sport. David Clarke’s latest digs into the cranky machine beneath the beautiful game. →
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The People’s Game Stolen Twice: A History of Rugby League, Media Wars, and the Gambling Takeover
The story of rugby league is not simply one of tries and grand finals. It is a story of how a people’s game, forged in the industrial north of England and the working-class suburbs of Sydney, was gradually captured by media capital, restructured for television, and finally handed to the gambling industry. →
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Strike review: Sergei Eisenstein’s Soviet Classic
As part of Red Ant Naarm’s “Rebels and Revolutionaries” Spring 2025 film series, we recently screened the 1925 Soviet film “Strike”, directed by Sergei Eisenstein. →
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Krupskaya on Revolutionary Self-Education
The writings of Nadezhda Krupskaya still provide crucial insights into how Communists can structure their self-education. →
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Review: The Iron Heel by Jack London
The Iron Heel is London’s most ‘socialist’ work. What seems to be missing from most mainstream conceptions and popular reviews ought to be apparent to anyone who has been involved in large, healthy socialist organisations–London’s Iron Heel is an “Introduction to Socialism” masquerading as a dystopian novel. →
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Red Books Day: The Ignorant Schoolmaster by Jacques Ranciere
All intelligence is equal, and this is a fundamental principle of Marxism, argues Nandini S. following Ranciere. →
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Brazen Hussies
Written and directed by Catherine Dwyer and edited by Rose Jones, this Australian documentary gives insight into the complexities of the Women’s Liberations movement as it re-emerged as a social movement in 1965. By Ana Cavalcante Brazen HussiesDocumentary film available to stream or on DVD at https://www.brazenhussies.com.au/ Written and directed by Catherine Dwyer and edited… →
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Michael Moore’s Christmas present: A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
“Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who takes their money and keeps this system going instead of tearing it up, ripping it apart,…… →
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Obituary: Fredric Jameson 1934-2024
By Rjurik Davidson “The King is dead, long live the King!” This ancient French phrase, dating to at least the Fifteenth Century, is the kind that might have set Fredric Jameson on one of his extended, languorous, alternately dense and playful, intellectually demanding examinations. Marxism’s preeminent cultural critic for more than fifty years, Jameson was… →
