In an increasingly polarized political climate in academia, it is important to ensure that diverse leftist perspectives are equally heard and recognized in the current era of mass censorship. Founded by a small group of Marxist students who believed critical theory’s applications in cinema should extend beyond simple historicized recognition of the Soviets and the Frankfurt School, Stachka! aims to re-politicize the academic discourse surrounding film and media studies. Using Marxism-Leninism as our guiding ideological framework, Stachka! highlights scholarship that synthesizes our political aims as Communists and the methods of critical theory.