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Up the Resistance! Review of photographic exhibition at the Modern Art gallery, Edinburgh
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…
Release the Sausages! North East launch event and panel discussion
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…
The Unbelievable Limbo Kid
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…
Illuminating the Shadows: Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ and the Rebellion of the Unseen
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…
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‘Christian Zionism’: A Useful Idiot for Genocide
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 and the BBC: Still Shifty After All These Years
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…
Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants’ War
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…
Building a class-conscious culture: an interview with Tommy Sissons, editor of GRASS
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…
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by Michael Rosen In the heart of western governments there is a special human breed known as ‘Heartless Bastards’ who are at this very moment... Continue reading
Genocide in Gaza. Commons image: Abd elhkeen Abo riash – Palestinian photojournalist Violet White critiques the ideology of Christian Zionism, which has influenced the passivity... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
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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... Continue reading
Review by Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work – and the first short story collection – to win the... Continue reading
A review by Jenny Farrell Michael Crummey’s The Adversary has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious prize nominated by libraries and readers worldwide... Continue reading