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... Continue reading
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Concerning the Conditions of the Working Poor
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 –…
Escape to Moribundia
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)….
A Chinese family under the microscope
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…
A House in Covid
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…
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What is to be done about Big Beer? Warrening the Brewers and Pub Chains
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…
Neoliberalism = Neoableism
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…
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF FAITH
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…
Smokestack – A Valediction / Keeping the Flame Alive…
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…
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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... Continue reading
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,... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
by Janet Hatherleyafter Henry Reed Today we have naming of seas. Yesterdaywe had the Gulf of Mexico. And tomorrow morningwe shall have what to do... Continue reading
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by Martin Hayes, with image above by Martin Gollan we come home on a Friday nightafter another dirty week in their officesopen a bottle of... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
Photos by M. Quille of public exhibition on 4th floor of Senate House, University of London by Jenny Mitchell A suitcase snaps with joy,falls open... Continue reading