Fran Lock exposes the hypocrisy, classism and elitism in contemporary liberal attempts to edit, erode and police working-class participation in the arts, and she calls for the radical,... Continue reading
As we get ready for the next series of Doctor Who, Sean Ledwith praises a show which regularly features forces of emancipation outwitting forces of oppression. This... Continue reading
Mike Sanders explains how Ernest Jones’s poem expresses the kind of radical social transformation that the Labour Party is now offering. Addressing the Labour Party conference on... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell pays tribute to the communist writer José Saramago, whose vision of another, possible world is still relevant today. Twenty years ago, on 8 October 1998,... Continue reading
John Green reviews a new film about the solidarity and courage of some Scots engineering workers who took action against the Chilean military coup of 1973. Nae... Continue reading
Reuben Bard-Rosenberg caught up with renowned radical songwriter David Rovics to talk music and politics. David is about to kick off his worldwide Musical History Tour –... Continue reading
Mike Templeton looks at the urban murals in Cincinnati, and argues that as the community of labour and co-operation has been destroyed by capitalism, so has the... Continue reading
Luke Callinan reviews Black 47, a film which reminds us of the brutal and inhuman nature of colonisation. Lance Daly’s Black 47, which was released in September 2018,... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell memorialises Victor Jara. Forty-five years ago, on 11 September 1973, the Chilean military under the command of General Pinochet and backed by the USA, overthrew... Continue reading
Kipling Buildings With some debt to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ by Alan Morrison If you can keep your head when all about youAre spy cameras, a deliberate delayOf... Continue reading