Author: Hank Kennedy

HANK KENNEDY is a Detroit area educator and socialist who writes regularly on the connection between comics and politics.

Elon Musk is an eminently hateable figure. He is the personification of a decaying system. He is the perfect target for anyone looking to pick a fight with modern capitalism.

O’Brien has not fundamentally changed from the man who took over his local union in 2006 as an anti-reform candidate.

Hank Kennedy reviews Wilson and Keko’s Freedom Shall Prevail, a comic book on the life of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish freedom struggle.

It speaks volumes that the Teamsters have gone in full scale retreat from this early opposition to fascism.

Teamster President O’Brien recently promoted on X (formerly Twitter) a racist, transphobic article by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.

The Libertarian Party has become just another flavor of the same reaction that propelled Trump to office in the first place.

The story of the construction of the Poletown plant is illustrative of the collaboration between big business and government, the failures of business unionism, and the shortcomings of liberals and the Communist Party

A review of a new contribution to the field of comics studies.