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
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
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
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
The poet’s parents by Christopher Norris This is a poem about Emma Vetterlein, a Jewish East-End Londoner and dedicated Communist Party member and union activist whom I... Continue reading