My word you can’t know Burns unless you can hate the Lockharts and all the estimable bourgeoisand upper classes as he really did – the narrow gutted... Continue reading
David Betteridge presents two poems to help you enjoy an alternative Burns supper. At An Alternative Burns Supper His short life and his fertilitylift his perfection... Continue reading
John Storey outlines the relations between football’s history and social class. In the About Us section of this website, cultural activities are described as sites of domination... Continue reading
Phil Brett looks analyses crime fiction from a socialist perspective. You don’t need to be a professor of English to know that crime fiction is very popular... Continue reading
Paul Robeson died 40 years ago this month. Gerald Horne writes about the great singer, actor and communist, victimised by McCarthyism and the US apartheid system…….and what ‘the... Continue reading
In the first of a series of articles on Chartist poetry and working class struggle, Dr. Mike Sanders traces the background to its development. Andy Croft in... Continue reading
On Tuesday 15th December, 2015 Christie’s Auction House held a sale of property that had belonged to the late British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The sale realised... Continue reading
They were gathered together in the rehearsal room – actors, directors, backstage workers for an out of the ordinary meeting. Alf Simpson was there, in his 40s... Continue reading
Mike Quille explores the relations between art, politics and empire, in the current Artist and Empire exhibition at Tate Britain. Has there ever been a more successful... Continue reading
Roland Boer sets the scene for a series of articles on the complex and contradictory relations between Marxism and religion, with an introduction to some of the... Continue reading