How the United States Inspired the Holocaust
Irish fascists specify who they’re racist against and who they aren’t on the basis of whiteness and religion. They draw their ideas from the same place Hitler drew his, the US.
Read more
Culture
4 Reasons Capitalists Are Furious at Michael Moore’s New Film (& Why You Need To Watch It)
‘A gift to Big Oil’, claims Vox’s Leah C. Stokes. Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox had the film temporarily removed from sites with the help of a twitter mob. The creators “have done a grave disservice to us and the planet” cried Penn State climatologist, Michael E. Mann, who soon after compared Michael Moore to Donald Trump and Putin.
Read more
What Actually was a Gulag? – Call of Duty’s 2020 Red Scare
The Soviets are frequently represented in fiction as comically excessive villains. The gulag is held up as the pinnacle of this malevolence, but is this focus on demonising socialist states a way for developers to avoid more relevant social criticism at home?
Read more
A Marxist Analysis of Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto is a series with a justified reputation for excessive violence and hedonistic lifestyles, but is it possible to draw an anti-capitalist narrative from what might otherwise read as glorification?
Read more
Love Island is a Shady Hour-Long Ad and You Didn’t Even Notice
The islanders never really pick what they want to wear, Manchester-based Boohoo billionaires select it for them. The Kamani family trap islanders into fashion contracts before even starting the show.
Read more
Fighting the Right in Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’
This review is part of Forward’s ongoing Critical & Cultural Analysis series, which will analyse political themes in popular
Read more
Left Hook: Queer Space Communism – Upcoming Event
Calling all Commie Queers, Leninist Lesbians and Republican Deviants! Feast your eyes and ears on Dublin’s most spectacular lefty night
Read more