The auteur’s new film – a study of labour, capital and the fallout of redundancy – won the grand jury prize at Venice. Telling tales of the disenfranchised is ‘our moral responsibility’, he says
Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.
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Socialists aren’t anywhere near powerful enough to overcome capitalism, but are now a force to be reckoned with in mass politics. This opportunity requires wrestling with the challenges of governing under capitalism rather than relying on old dogmas
National liberation, in Cabral’s conception, was simply one step along the road to emancipation from an economic system founded on exploitation by one’s fellow man. Colonialism was a consequence and not the cause of capitalist domination.
Only 9 percent of Americans younger than 30 have a “very positive” view of capitalism.
This generation does not trust parties, leaders, or institutions. It also votes, boycotts, protests, organizes online, quits jobs, channels its anger through digital platforms. Most importantly, it can turn everyday life into a political battleground
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This new adaptation of Michael Ende’s 1973 novel contains some neat parables for our digitally nihilistic age, but even a mystical tortoise can’t save it it from monotony
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