Monique Charles examines the links between grime and progressive politics. It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call a snap... Continue reading
Mike Quille reviews the national premiere of Liars of Earth, and interviews the artist. Review of the Drawing Chad McCail’s 100-foot long drawing depicts a series of... Continue reading
Peter Frost discusses the uses and abuses of social media, and how its innately social character makes it a useful communications platform for socialists. Lenin died in... Continue reading
John Green outlines the role of film in the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound and lasting influence of Russian revolutionary film-makers on cinema not only in the... Continue reading
The recent election results showed a stunning level of support for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party’s anti-austerity policies. Working people are clearly starting to ask more... Continue reading
Sandy Grant proposes that in times like these, it is poets who speak the most serious words of them all. Her article is followed by a poem by... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell explains how Leviathan reveals the nature of capitalism. The dystopias of the mid-20th century, Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), described with astonishing... Continue reading
Staring Back by Manash Firaq Bhattarcharjee The eye you see is notan eye because you see it;it is an eye because it sees you.~ Antonio Machado, ‘Proverbs... Continue reading
Julia Mickenberg discusses some recently published radical children’s literature. As Philip Nel and I suggested in “Radical Children’s Literature Now!“, the contemporary field of radical children’s literature... Continue reading
Nick Wright reviews the current exhibition of banners produced by Hammersmith Communist Party in the 1930s, to help the Spanish Republic. Legend has it that while Picasso... Continue reading