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‘Blitz’ Review: Love in the Ruins

Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times
McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.

How Trump Avoided the Mainstream Media — and Won the Presidency

Aidan Ryan The Boston Globe
“The real threat to the mainstream media as we know it is that there now exists a successful model for avoiding them that didn’t before Nov. 5,” said Michael Socolow, a media historian and professor of journalism at the University of Maine.

Samir Amin on the Theory of Multipolarity

Monthly Review Editors, Orinoco Tribune. Popular Resistance - Strategize!
For Amin, the struggle against imperialism required a delinking from the law of value on the world level centered in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo, and its replacement by a more “polycentric” or “multipolar” world order...

Exit Right

Gabriel Winant Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

Can Call Center Workers of the World Unite?

Steve Early Labor Notes
Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).