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The Arts Matter. So Do We!

April 4, 2024April 5, 2024Tim Heffernan

Ontario Art Gallery workers on strike “Show me the Monet,” was one of the many witty slogans of the striking workers of the Art Gallery of Ontario. The gallery in Toronto, is one of the largest art museums in North America, attracting approximately one million visitors annually. It boasts a collection of more than 120,000 […]

Writers Beat Studios, Win Major Concessions

October 3, 2023David Rhoades

David Rhoades is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After 148 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) forced the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) back to the negotiation table and squeezed major concessions out of frustrated studio heads. With a tentative agreement that surrenders ground to the […]

Actors Join Writers On Strike Against Greedy Studios

August 13, 2023David Rhoades

David Rhoades is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. On July 13, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), a union of 160,000 film and TV performers, joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on strike for the first time in 63 years. For the writers, who’ve endured […]

Summer of Soul

August 23, 2021Eljeer Hawkins

Eljeer Hawkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Review Harlem, New York – In the summer of 1969, two historic musical festivals took place that would have epic proportions for the course of musical history and define one of the most politically turbulent times […]

Who is This Bob Dylan?

May 24, 2021Albert Kropf

Albert Kropf is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). On the 80th Birthday of Robert Allen Zimmermann With his skills and fame, a Bob Dylan at the forefront of the social protest movements would have had the power to help unhinge the world. Instead, the old Dylan preferred to fish for the big […]

70 Years Since the Death of George Orwell

November 26, 2020Andy Ford

Andy Ford is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 2020 marks 70 years since the untimely death of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) from tuberculosis in University College Hospital, London. His political and literary legacy has been fought over ever since. Early years Orwell was born in 1903 in Motihari, India, as […]