political art
Ernest Poole’s ‘The Harbor’: A working-class classic that still matters
May 14, 2026"The Harbor" does for the ship and dock workers of New York what Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" did for the immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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Soulcialists: How current pop music reissues helped retrace my political path
May 14, 2026These compilations of 1980s music show an element of UK music that embraced soul, jazz, and radical left politics that injected class conflict, anti-colonialism, and socialism for fans.
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Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War’ and the aesthetics of terror
April 9, 2026March 30 marked the 280th anniversary of the birth of an artist who explored with equal intensity the horror of his era and terror as a psychological reaction and existential condition.
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Will the Cuban revolution survive?
February 23, 2026The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Poem: ‘Minneapolis’
February 4, 2026"Defying the King, with his army of fear. Never give up on what you hold dear."
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