Commons image of Belfast riots When you forget where your forefathers came from. How they arrived into a country. What they did to the people of that... Continue reading
By Philippa Greasley No vote, no questions asked, no choicenow we mustsing the Lord’s Prayer at the startand chant the National Anthem at the end“well, why should... Continue reading
A destroyed mosque in the Jabalia area, Gaza Strip, Palestine By Christopher Norris (After Geoffrey Hill, ‘Ovid in the Third Reich’) I love my nation, hate its... Continue reading
Annemasse, France, 18/08/1944: a group of children who survived thanks to Marianne Cohn and Myla Racine By S. J. Litherland For Ray and Alec Waterman Open the... Continue reading
A stroll along the tow-path of the Forth & Clyde Canal leads to a chance conversation with an ex-soldier at the Stockingfield Bridge, on the northern outskirts... Continue reading
There is a long tradition of working-class poetry in Italy. Worker-poets like Sandro Sardella, Luigi di Ruscio and Tommaso di Ciaula described the reality of factory work... Continue reading
By Roger Cornish Jack was fuming.He’d simply had enough. He said: “They come over here.They come over here.” “Who comes over here, Jack?” “Thems boat people,thems boat... Continue reading
Christian England by Gilbert and George By Gregory Dalrymple-White All this used to be fieldsthat spreadyields that fed peoplewho gave ambitionto a systemabused all of this used... Continue reading
Commons image: CC by 2.0 By Peter Raynard What wee timorous beastie have you become?Scurrying between abstruse summationsthat we cannae yet speak of until the drumsof excise... Continue reading
Refugees Forever – Palestine Nakba, 1948. Image: Wikicommons By Mike Jenkins The soldier in full camouflageHelmet, face-covering and gun,Poking the man with it like a bayonet. This... Continue reading