Live literature every third Sunday Sunday 19 October, 5:00pm, RESPONDERS Gale Burns, Keith Jarrett, Selina Rodrigues – Three poets of different ethnicities, backgrounds, social class and sexuality... Continue reading
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro. Verso, 2025 By Jon Baldwin In a recent paper, Pre-Emptive/ Neo-Fascist Capitalism, Marxism and... Continue reading
Starmer’s empty promises of renewal By Paul Francis Keir Starmer says the nation hasa battle for its soul.There’s two opposing absolutescompeting for control.This moment of decisionis a... Continue reading
Image by the author By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi The ovens of bread are cold as stone,Like graves unmarked, the fields lie prone.Children’s stomachs echo like drums,Hollow hymns where... Continue reading
By Nick Moss We started a poetry and open mic night at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, London NW8 after we organized a “farewell festival” for Smokestack... Continue reading
Image by Martin Gollan By Chris Norris O tell us what to do, Sir Keir,Please tell us what to do!For you’re Prime Minister, and we’reAll looking up... Continue reading
By Alan Morrison Prolific socialist poet, playwright and verse-dramatist Tony Harrison passed away yesterday aged 88. His many works included The Loiners (1970), From the School of... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi You, butcher masked in flags of false defence,Whose bombs defile the wells and fields of grace,Your creed of fire reveals your impotence—A tyrant’s hand,... Continue reading
The moon rises over destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 15, 2024Credit: Saher Alghorra By S. J. Litherland We share the... Continue reading
St Francis of Assisi Church stained glass window, Churches Complex, Dubai By Alan McGuire “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those... Continue reading
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