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by Ciaran O’Rourkeafter Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895 A two-hundred-thousand mass – and what a mass!Bare women, ruddy men, with nothing left, completelyclad in rags: living proletarians,and more –…
INTRODUCTION by Andy Croft Escape to Moribundia is the last in a trilogy of verse-novels written in Pushkin sonnets (the others being Ghost Writer and Nineteen Forty-eight)….
Angus Reid reviews Brief History Of A Family, directed by Lin Jianjie In 1928 the Soviet director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein wrote an essay, The Cinematographic…
Self-portrait with Hand on Brow – Kathe Kollwitz by James O’Brien Even after all, the span was only yesterday,That yesterday of horrors, where everyone slipped away.I felt…
The State Management Scheme brewery, 1916-1971 by Keith Flett The grip that global big beer has on what is sold and drunk in bars and pubs needs…
The ‘Labour’ Government’s Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working amounts to a cranking up of more Tory-style persecution of the…
Violet White argues that all who are engaged in the struggle for a just society – whether of faith or of no faith – stand on the…
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather…