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
Photo: Sea, by James Carty by Violet White (a true description of a dream I had the other night VW 10.2.25) The day before yesterday, just before... Continue reading
As we voyage through the uncharted waters of the post-Covid 2020s to the scourge of war again on the European continent, and in the Middle East, a... Continue reading
‘Workers’, by Peter Kennard “Class War, Not Culture Wars!” I’ve heard this phrase – or variations on the general theme – doing the rounds a lot lately.... Continue reading
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Allen Lane, £12.99 by Henry Bell Gumb begins this lavishly published and lushly... Continue reading
Flensing whales at a whaling station, Akutan, Alaska, ca 1915 The dreaded rooms of surrendered disarticulation,The body, de-fleshed, deracinated now, eying the walls.Where the exhaled tobacco creates... Continue reading