Catherine and the Baroness
The only character who actually dies in Disney’s
Cruella is the sweet, good servant, Catherine, who consents to raise Cruella – condemned to death by her birth mother, the grotesquely unfeeling Baroness De Vil – as her own daughter. Cruella and the Baroness shall dance a burlesque that plays out to the morbid rhythm of an eternal melody. Similarly in Peru since even the time of Spanish dominion a macabre masquerade has been enacted between conservatives and liberals, parties born of the same mother, Empire, whose local nemesis,
Pachamama, struggles vainly with these uninvited adoptees in the face of their mutual despoliation of the natural order.
by Oliver Boyd-Barrett / May 16th, 2021
Trading Genocides
On April 24, 2021, US President Joseph Biden declared that the massacre of 1.5 million Turkish Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide. As to whether genocide is the word Americans can consent to use about Native Americans who suffered death, torture, displacement, apartheid and disease at the hands, mainly, of European settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a lot less clear, although some state governors have gone for it. As for slavery, not until July 2008 did the US House of Representatives apologize for American slavery of blacks and the subsequent discriminatory laws and practices that have continued to marginalize and oppress a population that today constitutes over 47 million or 14% of the US population. 9 States have officially apologized for their involvement in the enslavement of Africans.
Green Left 30th anniversary event March 27 2021
Green Left is celebrating 30 years of people-powered media on February 18. We would like to encourage you to join us at our anniversary event on March 27 with Kavita Krishnan. (Please book now!) Below are some of the messages of support we ve received. Please share your own message of support on social media with the hashtag #GreenLeft30. And, if you like our work, become a supporter!
Adela Brent, Brisbane Reclaim the Night Collective: We are delighted to send a solidarity message to the
Green Left. 30 years! Congratulations! A socialist newspaper is an important means of communication, especially in a capitalist country where the press is monopolized by the rich. Newspapers must tell the truth and be at the service of the people. This is what