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Paul Trevor, Anti-racists gather to block route of National Front demonstration, New Cross Road, London, August 1977 © Paul Trevor by Jim Aitken Not long after this…
Here is a link to the launch of Release the Sausages! Poems for Keir Starmer and panel discussion at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle, on Wednesday 30 July…
by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Martin Gollan It’s a universal truth that we should have low expectationsof those who climb the greasy pole to lead…
Review by Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work – and the first short story collection – to win the 2025 International…
Genocide in Gaza. Commons image: Abd elhkeen Abo riash – Palestinian photojournalist Violet White critiques the ideology of Christian Zionism, which has influenced the passivity of mainstream…
Adam Curtis, Shifty, 2025, film still. Courtesy: the artist and BBC Dennis Broe reviews the latest offering from Adam Curtis The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze said editing is…
GDR/East German banknote featuring Thomas Müntzer All but unknown in the Western narrative, the radical German theologian, preacher, and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) became one of…
Workers, by Peter Kennard By Alan McGuire About a year ago, I was struggling to find a home for my poetry, it felt like most of the…