In a year of historic crises and growing working class opposition, popular music in 2024 remained largely removed from the burning issues shaping global reality, with some notable exceptions.
Andrew Bird’s Gezelligheid concerts in Chicago showcased his virtuosic musicianship and thoughtful songwriting, set in a beautifully intimate atmosphere.
The demise of the Pitchfork Music Festival has provoked outrage, as attacks on art, culture and education escalate.
The film is an often tender-hearted and unconventional love story set against the backdrop of racial prejudice and social repression prevailing in a divided postwar Germany.
The star’s new album, which alternates between the forgettable and the ludicrous, is a ready-made vehicle for the promotion of racialist and gender politics, along with the generation of corporate profits.
HBO has dropped the actor from the acclaimed series over allegations that he supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A Canadian tech worker suffering with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer was sacked last month by Wayfair, their third mass layoffs since 2022.
Last week, Spotify and Twilio announced mass layoffs of tech workers, escalating the attack on the working class as a whole.
This year’s US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in New York City has been plagued by what is being euphemistically referred to as a “mysterious” illness in what has all the hallmarks of a COVID-19 superspreader event.
The show, presented in four seasons over the course of 2018 to 2023, depicts the power struggles and moral decay bound up with the fate of a corporate-financial dynasty that wields enormous influence over politics, culture and society.
The 62-minute episode has an unquestionably unnerving quality. It provides an artistic and accurate depiction of the breakdown of democracy and the lurch toward fascism by the American ruling elite.
How the show wraps things up remains to be seen, but the portrait of the Roy family is unflattering in the extreme and Succession’s writing and acting remain sharp and amusing.
The tech cuts are only the beginning of a broader offensive against jobs by the entire capitalist elite, who are determined to use unemployment as a weapon against the rise of strike activity.
Season two revisits many of the same concerns as the first season, tackling how money affects relationships of all types.
A number of serious series and programs received Emmy awards this year, as television continues to prove more socially critical and interesting than filmmaking.
The nominations for this year’s Emmy awards point to the extremely contradictory conditions and moods in the television industry.
Autoworkers at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant spoke out in support of Will Lehman’s campaign for the UAW president.
The deadly mass shooting on a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, is the latest in a string of horrific massacres that continue to plague American society.
Starbucks workers in Chicago carried out a three-day strike over the weekend in opposition to severe understaffing problems. The Starbucks baristas, many of whom got COVID-19 while working, complained about low pay and unsafe conditions during the pandemic.
A former Caterpillar worker in the Peoria, Illinois area spoke out against the company's unsafe working conditions, punitive treatment by management and the indifference of the UAW.
