Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a ‘truly radical flowering’... Continue reading
Greg Godels traces John Coltrane’s revolutionary music against its 60s background of class conflict and Black liberation struggles. John Coltrane died fifty years ago this past July.... Continue reading
Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell takes us through one of the greatest political artworks ever, Picasso’s Guernica. There are a handful of pictures that may be said to be almost... Continue reading
Mike Sanders writes about Shelley ‘the Chartist poet’ as a catalyst for working class creativity, how he envisioned a communist society, and how the privileged classes refused... Continue reading
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
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
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