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India’s film certification board censors award-winning The Voice of Hind Rajab, citing “harm” to India-Israel relations

The banning of the docudrama reveals the depth of relationship now established between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-supremacist government and the murderous Zionist Netanyahu regime.

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u/DryDeer775 — 1 day ago
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Documentary Clip: Stalin’s Funeral

THE GREAT FAREWELL (1953) | FULL DOCUMENTARY

(Stalin's Funeral)

Original title: Великое прощание (Velikoye proshchaniye)

Year: 1953

Studio: Central Studio for Documentary Films (ЦСДФ)

Color / Black & White

A Soviet state documentary chronicling the lying-in-state and funeral of Iosif Stalin, 6–9 March 1953. The film records the mass grief of the Soviet working class and peasantry, the honor guard of allied nations, the Red Square procession, and the interment at the Lenin Mausoleum.

Aram Khachaturian’s score shapes the film into a requiem for the leader of the first socialist state. More than a record of mourning, the work is a document of proletarian state power at the moment of its gravest internal crisis.

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Directors:

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergey Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Mikheil Chiaureli, Elizaveta Svilova, Irina Setkina

Screenwriters: Directorial Collective

Literary script by Alexey Surkov

Chief Cinematographers:

Ivan Beliakov, Ruvim Khalushakov, Vladimir Lavrov, and over 200 cameramen from across the USSR

Composer: Aram Khachaturian

Assistant Director: Semiramida Pumpyanskaya

u/BreadDaddyLenin — 4 days ago

The People vs. Agent Orange

The Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the war in Vietnam.  Today, all over the world, a primary component of that toxic herbicide controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks—even on children’s playgrounds. The chemical wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.

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u/Green_Ideas7 — 8 days ago
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90 years of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times

Modern Times marked a significant development in Chaplin’s work. More directly than ever before, Chaplin confronted the glaring social and, for the first time, political issues of contemporary life. The Tramp character was transformed into the “Factory Worker” at war with industrial capitalism.

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u/DryDeer775 — 8 days ago
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Dinner for few | Animated short film by Nassos Vakalis

TW: animated blood

I'm posting this here bc I think this film is meant to represent class struggle (the bourgeoisie is literally represented as pigs)

Meme flair bc idk what other flair to choose

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u/Game_And_Walk — 11 days ago
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Movie Clip: Stalin’s Tsaritsyn Counter-Offensive (Lenin in 1918, 1939 Film)

Full Uncensored Film Here

Comrade Stalin receives news of Lenin’s health following Fanny Kaplan’s assassination attempt, and develops a plan to push the Whites out of Tsaritsyn.

u/BreadDaddyLenin — 13 days ago
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I'm a secondary school history teacher in Carriacou, Grenada. I introduce my Form Three students to class consciousness by showing them John Carpenter's “They Live.”

The movie is free on YouTube currently.

The film makes abstract ideas tangible. The sunglasses reveal the hidden messages OBEY, CONSUME, MARRY AND REPRODUCE. The wealthy show their true alien faces. The film teaches ideology and false consciousness without a single textbook.

Here is the reading list I assign.:

Core Classroom Assignments

The Working Poor by David K. Shipler

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

National Focus

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979‑83 edited by Bruce Marcus and Michael Taber

In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop's Speeches, 1979‑1983 edited by Chris Searle

African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop by Manning Marable

Angel by Merle Collins

The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism by Franklin W. Knight

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

For Students Who Go Deeper

Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti

Against Empire by Michael Parenti

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

Any educators do the same?

Or does anyone have a story about how a favourite teacher, friend or post helped radicalise you?

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u/HammerandSickleProds — 13 days ago
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This show defined a big part of my childhood (and the animatronic puppet suits were made by the Jim Henson Company, as the show was one of theirs).

The show in general had a massive amount of biting satire, but this bit in particular is super relevant to me once I rediscovered it.

P.S. Not sure which flair to use. Mods, please feel free to fix as you see fit.

u/scaper8 — 14 days ago

Was cool to see all the archival footage in this one!

The private footage of Enver Hoxha was particularly interesting. I’m a sucker for archival and this one really delivered. However, the sound design didn’t always work for me and I didn’t think the director was being as clever as he thought he was.

u/HammerandSickleProds — 14 days ago