Party for Socialism and Liberation http://www.pslweb.orgANSWER Coalition http://www.answercoalition.org http://www.answerla.org
People who want to change the world and rid it of exploiters. People who hate racism and want a world based on justice, equality and cooperation. People who believe in national liberation and justice for all oppressed peoples.
Gang of Four, Scott Walker, Nick Cave (Bad Seeds, Birthday Party & Grinderman), ACDC ("For those about to rock ... you know), International Noise Conspiracy, Dinosaur Jr., Bauhaus, Black Sabbath, Matthew Sweet, The Coup, Bloc Party, Public Enemy, Babyshambles, The Red Army choir, Bullhorns at protests, PSL Podcasts, The Smiths, Jarvis Cocker, Jim O'Rourke, Ornette Coleman, Tindersticks, Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Los Duggans, North Korean national anthem, the Pixies, the Libertines and more.
Ma 6-T va crack-er (by Jean-Francois Richet), Paradise Now & Rana's Wedding were great (Long live Palestine!), early Soviet cinema, Salt of the Earth, Jacques Rivette, everything by Charles Burnett (especially Killer of Sheep and Nightjohn), George Romero's "Dead" zombie films, Rosetta, Abbas Kiarostami, early Antonioni, Joseph Lewis rarities, Fritz Lang (including his long-disgraced Indian films), An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson), Sylvia Scarlett, The Bandwagon, Teorema (Pasolini), The Killing (Kubrick), Videodrome (Cronenberg), Scarecrows, White Dog (Sam Fuller), Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and about 10,000 others. I even like Jerry Lewis (especially his Frank Tashin films). A big "no" to Top Gun, however. I'd rather watch Hot Shots Part Deux. The worst film of all time is either DW Griffith's pro-KKK Birth of a Nation or Gus Van Sant's insipid Good Will Hunting. You make the call. Also, Vincent Gallo is a neo-fascist who's films convey his unbelievable bourgeois view of himself and the world (or, rather, himself as the world and vice versa).
Arrested Development, Masters of Horror, Lost (minus the religious overtones), all things Joss Whedon, not TJ Hooker, not Star Trek (but the new Battlestar Galactica is really good, although reactionary at times), and I would say X-Files but the leads play FBI agents. I hate the FBI. And I hate all cop shows. How about showing some working-class people who care about what happens to other people?! Where are the progressive TV shows? It won't really happen under capitalism--the economic structure of society determines the superstructure's worldview, including culture (if TV is culture) and politics.
Liberation newspaper, Socialism and Liberation magazine (like a serialized book), China: Revolution and Counterrevolution, and other communist propaganda by Marx, Engels, Lenin and others. Movies as Politics (by Jonathan Rosenbaum), In Defense of Marxism (Leon Trotsky).
All great revolutionaries in the historic struggle for working class emancipation. From the rank-and-file to the leaders - all are important. Doing something with your life other than pursuing only "fun" is worthwhile.