The American ruling class would like nothing more than for workers to think that revolution is alien to the US. But Ken Burns’ new docuseries, The American Revolution, is a powerful refutation of this prejudice.
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Review: Marty Supreme
According to lead actor Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme is about “sacrifice in pursuit of a dream.” The film takes this simple, relatable idea and develops it into a damning portrayal of capitalism.
Bad Bunny’s “Debí tirar Más Fotos” Touches Nerve Across Latin America
Bad Bunny’s latest album, Debí tirar Más Fotos (DtMF), has electrified the youth of Latin America. It is his most “Puerto Rican” and political album yet—a reflection of society’s growing politicization and radicalization.
Capitalism’s Literacy Crisis
America’s long-standing literacy crisis is only getting worse. In the world’s richest country, only 79% of adults in the US are literate enough to paraphrase a text or make low-level inferences about it.
James Joyce’s Dubliners: A Masterful Depiction of Decaying Capitalism
Behind the book’s innocent outward appearance, Dubliners is a deeply penetrating and razor-sharp critique; a damning indictment, not just of Irish society circa 1900, but of capitalist society itself.
The Revolutionary Dialectic of Balzac’s Human Comedy
Honoré de Balzac was a prolific literary genius and one of Marx and Engels’ favorite authors. In the Human Comedy, much like in the Communist Manifesto, we see the unstoppable wheels of history in motion.
Country Music’s Class-Struggle Roots
For decades, country music has been a bastion of conservative culture. But the truth is that country music has a long history of giving voice to the class struggle, especially in the South.
To Prepare Los Angeles for 2028 Olympics, $200 Million in Cuts to Public Transit
The capitalists are intent on ensuring that billions in Olympic revenues will benefit big corporations at the expense of the workers who actually make the games run.
Fascism on Film
Two films from 1970, The Conformist and The Garden of Delights, present a harrowing portrait of everyday life under fascism.
Love and the Decay of Capitalism
We are living in what some have been calling a “loneliness epidemic.” Only communism will give us the ability to repair human relations and create a world run on the basis of genuine solidarity.
Rich Men North of Richmond: Country Hit Captures Rising Class Anger
The explosive popularity of Oliver Anthony’s country song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” shows that the rising class consciousness and anger in the US isn’t limited to the millions of youth who consider communism their “ideal economic system.”
Oppenheimer: Communism, McCarthyism, and the Bomb
Christopher Nolan’s latest release offers a dramatic and tense look at the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, exploring the politics of McCarthy-era America along the way.
The Communist: Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.