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AnyMart / チルド

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale, this deadpan satire of late capitalism sees a convenience store become a stage for darkly funny horror. Sakai – played by Japanese star Shota Sometani (Himizu, MIFF 2012) – is an assistant manager at the Tokyo convenience store managed by his father (Masahiko Nishimura), both men deadened by the rigid…

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced in the context of the emerging multipolar world order and the urgent climate crisis. The book argues that the era of the purely national left is over.

Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter

This is a memoir of Appalachia, a region often stereotyped as “a place to escape from, where people are hateful, lazy, and bring tragedy upon themselves.” Beth Howard has a different story to tell, both in growing up there and in an unlooked for history of the place. Howard shares the emotional wounds her childhood left her with, but also realizes the…

Working-Class Girls Don’t Become Artists: Looking at Art and Class

Working-Class Studies pioneer Janet Zandy profiles nine artists whose work “aligns with the history and living conditions of working-class people”: Kathe Kollwitz, Elizabeth Catlett, Ruth Asawa, Marilyn Anderson, Milton Rogovin, Mark Rogovin, Jens S. Jensen, Ralph Fasanella, and Raymond Mason.

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

This is a best-selling book about working-class life in one small Ohio town 40 years ago and now, and the history of that one town reveals a fractured American landscape that is widespread but seldom seen. Beth Macy grew up in Urbana, Ohio, and was a paper girl delivering the daily newspaper to people’s homes.

O pobre de direita: A vingança dos bastardos

WHY DO THE POOR VOTE FOR THE RIGHT? 📍This is the question Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza answers in his book The Right-Wing Poor: The Revenge of the Bastards (2024), and his answer is uncomfortable: it was never about economics.

Cycle / Döngü

For years Sevim has worked as a housekeeper for Ayten, playing a key role in managing the household while financially supporting her daughter and son-in-law. When Ayten’s Kosovan helper, Lena, suffers an accident, it sparks a legal dispute between the parties.