Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Spinoza, Theologico – Political Treatise,... Continue reading
Installation view of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. Mama Bush: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me), Higher and Higher, (2009). Photo: Mark Blower. Courtesy the artist and the... Continue reading
Folks, listen up! We’ve got a great deal here – this is the mega deal of the century folks, a fantastic deal we’ve worked on, tremendous. We’re... Continue reading
8 Mar 2025, Doors 18:30, Creativity Pavilion, Alexandra Palace To celebrate International Women’s Day – Mama Quilla Productions – bring their Mentoring New Women Artists Initiative 2025 to Alexandra... Continue reading
Sam Friedman introduces a downloadable pdf on writing socialist poetry The arts are just a part of the weapons of life. Art can make us see and... Continue reading
The little girl led them so lightlyThrough the devastated streets of the city,Where the bodies still lay buried. Under a sky which had liftedShe swirl-twirled the dabke,The... Continue reading
Listen,He wasn’t some noble knightBack from the CrusadesWho found Merry England had changed,No lover of the Lionheart,Not him or any KingBut just a manWho sawThe harrying of... Continue reading
Mark Perryman celebrates the 85th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s anthem On Sunday, 23rd February 2025, it will be the 85th anniversary of Woody Guthrie writing his anthemic... Continue reading
A memo distributed by US National Security Agency leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned... Continue reading
by Amy K Grandvoinet This essay was written back in the dark winter of 2023, and comes into light belatedly. Right now, at the start of the... Continue reading