Joseph Atkins

journalist, writer, Ole Miss j-prof, NC native, progressive populist tracking Southern labor, film, and cultural issues on Twitter.

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LabourStart campaigns for the freedom of imprisoned Hong Kong labor leader and activist Lee Cheuk-yan and fellow activist Chow Hang-tung. (Photo of Lee Cheuk-yan in 2013 by Joseph B. Atkins)
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Mississippi, a "rich source of storytelling," is a good place to make movies, filmmakers decide at the Film Mississippi Summit 2026 (Photo: a panel discussion at the summit. Photo by Joe Atkins)
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A walk down a dark street in Munich. What changes would there be today from 1974? (Photo: Munich's famous Rathaus)
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A wedding in the Big Easy, a city known for its good times despite its troubles (Photo: View of the French Quarter from the Hotel Monteleone's 15th floor)
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Dostoevsky, a prophet of today's spiritual malaise across the West (Photo by author: Dostoevsky's apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1992).
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Somehow Hollywood produced a pro-Castro film noir in 1959, something as unlikely in today's noirish landscape as it was then
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Jesse Jackson in 1988: "I do intend to be a part of the conscience of the nation." (Photo: Jesse Jackson in 2013)
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Trump better hope his gambit in Venezuela doesn't turn into another Vietnam (Photo: author Joseph B. Atkins in Vietnam in 1971)
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Was the old warrior Sitting Bull a visionary of future conflicts and broken promises by the United States? (Photo: Sitting Bull in 1883)
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A Labor South organization forms to train young people in labor history and organizing and thereby challenge Trump-inspired anti-unionism (below: an 1882 Puck cartoon satirizing the Knights of Labor)
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The world needs political cartoonist Art Young to come back and remind us of the evils of war. (Below a drawing of Art Young by the Mexican artist Orozco)
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The global debt crisis in Argentina and elsewhere owes a lot to Marco Rubio and his hedge fund vulture friend, Paul Singer (Photo: Marco Rubio)
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A new pope whose name implies strong support for workers' rights and thus friction with Donald Trump and the world's neoliberal elite. (Photo of Pope Leo XIV by Edgar Beltran of The Pillar)
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Starbucks organizer Jaz Brisack sounds the call to "Get on the job and organize" in a new book that lays the groundrules for successful organizing in a revitalized labor movement.
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When it comes to Ukraine and Russia, war-mongering neoliberals could learn a thing or two from Karl von Clausewitz (Photo: Karl von Clausewitz)
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USAID, a front for the CIA, helped foment the Hong Kong protests that put Lee Cheuk-yan in prison.
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Donald Trump's moment of truth--workers and peace, or billionaires and war.
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Trump's promise to mass deport millions of migrants reminds of another migrant family more than 2000 years ago. (Photo: The Holy Family in flight, by Giotto)
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Trump better deliver, or the workers who elected him may decide they have the true keys to power, not some big talk politician.
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A comparison of Huey Long and Donald Trump. Both challenged establishment politics, but only one delivered. (Photo: Huey Long)
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