Watership Down - A Marxist analysis

Possibly not the most critical question confronting the international working class movement in the age of Trump, but if anyone is interested in a Marxist analysis of  Richard Adams's Watership Down there is one in the latest Socialist Review, alongside much else....

Tim Sanders on Charlie Hebdo

The point of satire is to attack the powerful, to expose their hypocrisy and absurdity, and of course to be funny. If satire is directed downwards it is not satire, it’s bullying.
British socialist cartoonist Tim Sanders on satire on the latest Socialist Review

The first strike in space

Marxist sci-fi fans might be interested in SF Forward,  an attractively designed blog which has varied and erudite discussions of all manner of material relating to science fiction and utopianism - recent posts for example include discussions of JG Ballard and William Gibson, 'Structures of Soviet Science Fiction', 'Red Star Gazing and the Inevitability of Full Space Communism' and even a discussion of the first strike in space.