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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…
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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…
Antizionism and censorship in the theatre
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…
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Ramping up the cultural struggle: CPB conference on class and culture
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…
Boycott of Israeli cultural institutions
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…
What is the source of alienation? Jim Aitken reviews ‘Soil and Soul’ by Alistair McIntosh
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: shows with a social and political purpose
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…
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