News and Analysis: Arts and culture

Marilyn Monroe targeted by FBI for pro-socialist views

FBI surveillance documents finally released

January 4, 2013

Fifty years after her death in August 1962, files that document the FBI’s close scrutiny of actress Marilyn Monroe have finally been released

Bambu: It goes beyond a conscious rap song

Review of 'One Rifle Per Family'

December 6, 2012

With his music and community organizing, Bambu too has been at war with imperialism, police brutality, capitalism and patriarchy—promoting revolution and serving the people.

Remembering Woody Guthrie

Influential singer, songwriter for poor and working people

July 13, 2012

July 14 marks the 100th birthday of Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, one of the best-known American folk musicians.

Artist harassed for 'inflammatory' work

‘Some might say the banks are the terrorists’

September 17, 2011

A Los Angeles artist has set fire to the art world, the media and bank rooftops, all with the stroke of a paintbrush.

Art for liberation from Pelican Bay State Prison

Submitted by Jose Villarreal, from inside the control unit

July 22, 2011

Revolutionary art from inside the Secure Housing Unit that sparked the prisoners' hunger strike in California.

Maine labor mural censored by governor

In brief

April 14, 2011

The anti-labor agenda in state government has extended to art. A mural depicting working-class people was taken down on orders of Maine's governor.

Ernesto Che Guevara: 'The sacred path'

A special poem submitted to Liberation News

January 12, 2011

The author presented this poem at the Jan. 7 meeting of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Los Angeles to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and honor Che's revolutionary legacy.

Women's leadership and the Black liberation struggle: Review

Review of "Want to Start a Revolution?" (NYU Press, 2009)

August 23, 2010

Women were not only behind-the-scenes organizers in the Black liberation movement, but also strategists, mentors, theoreticians, and formal leaders.

Rhymes Under Occupation

A Trip to the West Bank for a Hip-Hop Tour

August 20, 2010

On July 21, I embarked on a life-changing journey to the West Bank, Palestine as a paricipant in the 2010 Bus Stop Hip-Hop Tour, organized by Existence Is Resistance. The week and a half long tour consisted of six concerts and several workshops with youth in refugee camps, and featured artists such as M1 of Dead Prez, Shadia Mansour, Lowkey, Mazzi, DJ Vega Benetton and myself.

'Bruno' lies about Palestinian 'terrorist'

Setting the record straight about Abu Aita and the al-Aqsa Brigades

August 16, 2009

Sasha Baron Cohen has done it again. In his summer comedy, “Bruno,” Cohen plays a gay Austrian journalist who moves to the United States to become famous. While some critics have praised “Bruno” for exposing or lampooning homophobia, the film’s overall effect—as a ridiculous and offensive medley of thrown-together stereotypes—is likely to reinforce rather than challenge anti-gay bigotry.

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