Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne argue that an incoming Labour government should make class discrimination a ‘protected characteristic’ in law. At the 2019 TUC Congress Jeremy Corbyn... Continue reading
Chris Guiton reviews Calum Baird’s latest release Calum Baird’s new single Modern Man is a potent take on male identity. The Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter and political activist writes... Continue reading
Mollie Brown introduces the Bread & Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2020, and ‘the instinctive joy of taking control of cultural production’ The Communication Workers’ Union... Continue reading
Class conflict, and the various ways class divisions are expressed and resolved in personal relationships, from outright violence to affection and peaceful co-existence, form the central themes... Continue reading
Chris Guiton discusses the Attica prison riot of September 1971, and Archie Shepp’s creative response to it In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot that the United States... Continue reading
Tom Hubbard writes about Fife’s folk culture, past and present There are books which, discovered when you are young, remain a moral and artistic compass for you... Continue reading
Doc Ritchie tells us to resist capitalist accumulation in football by tightening regulation and changing the ownership and management of football clubs. Images courtesy of fan-owned Clapton... Continue reading
Revolution by Sally Flint Top of Google it’s a wine bar, a game,a make-up range. I recall science lessons ‒to rotate, twirl, circuit, cycle, orbit.It’s the Earth... Continue reading
Sean Ledwith shows how Finnegans Wake, far from being an incomprehensible waste of Joyce’s genius, is an anti-fascist masterwork, uniting and celebrating the wholeness, richness and vibrancy... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell discusses the life and work of ‘Peasant Bruegel’, unearthing the radically subversive protests and criticisms of political domination which are expressed so beautifully in his... Continue reading