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in memory of Eric Levy Assange is free – and how you worked for that, fragile as spindrift, drumming up a storm wrapped in your keffiyeh, that…
by Steve Pottinger to any one of us. It’s a grey morning, calm. December. We are in town killing time, maybe meeting friends, something other than our…
Joel Samuels discusses the background to his performance in Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art at the Arcola Theatre, London, from 26th November to…
Around 60 people gathered last Saturday in Barnsley for the Communist Party’s first-ever conference on culture. Called ‘Class and Culture’, the conference was held in the inspiring…
More than 1,000 authors have launched a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and Culture Matters supports the boycott. These writers…
Soil and Soulwas first published in 2001, and it was a thoroughly well-received book. In his Foreword to it, George Monbiot described it as ‘a ground-breaking book.’ …
Fair Play Cabaret With the backing of Equity, a cultural campaign is being launched which is centred around an ongoing series of events across the country. They…