Culture – CYM

OnlyFans & Sex Work – The Fastest Growing Industry of 2020

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Austerity, sex work

OnlyFans sees 75% surge of new sex workers during the lockdown. Bankers-son and digital pimp *cough cough* ‘entrepreneur’, Timothy Stokely, takes 20% of their income.

Culture Injustice Ireland Justice

The Worm at the Core – Apple’s Daylight Robbery

July 18, 2020July 19, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Apple, Austerity, EU, Tax, Working Class

Apple, among the world’s most profitable and valuable companies in the world, is given a free pass to avoid paying tax in Ireland

Culture Injustice

Race, Jazz & Police Brutality

July 5, 2020July 6, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Music, racism, USA

The concept of being brutalised by police days after creating one of the most important works in music history was entirely surreal for white people, it was as if the Beatles were attacked days after releasing Abbey Road.

Culture Uncategorized

How the United States Inspired the Holocaust

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments review, USA, WWII

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.

Culture Uncategorized

4 Reasons Capitalists Are Furious at Michael Moore’s New Film (& Why You Need To Watch It)

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Climate Crisis, Green Party

‘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.

Culture Uncategorized

What Actually was a Gulag? – Call of Duty’s 2020 Red Scare

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Stalin, USSR, video games

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?

Culture Forward

A Marxist Analysis of Grand Theft Auto V

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 editor 1 Comment CIA, GTA V, video games

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?

Culture Education

Love Island is a Shady Hour-Long Ad and You Didn’t Even Notice

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Media, Television

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.