The outstanding German communist playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht was born on 10 February 1898, 120 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary, Jenny Farrell has sent us one... Continue reading
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On the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, Jenny Farrell introduces Brecht’s poetic re-writing of the Communist Manifesto, with its ‘spectre of communism, which... Continue reading
The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alain Badiou by Chris Norris We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign... Continue reading
The Divided Self by Keith Armstrong ‘When’er my muse does on me glance, I jingle at her.’ (Robert Burns). Such an eye in a human head,from the... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell discusses the focus on our common humanity in Robert Burns’s For A’ That, and the way it foretells the ‘programme which will govern the world... Continue reading
On the 50th anniversary of Patrick Kavanagh’s death, Jenny Farrell draws out some of the political meanings of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem Epic. The Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh... Continue reading
universal credit by Fran Lock statues wake, and yawning, scrapethe birdshit from their tongues. londondrags a dirty nail across her fibroid lungs. the hoodies and the halfwits... Continue reading
A Double Act by S. O. Fasrus ‘But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them... Continue reading
Culture Matters has published a brilliant new collection of poetry called Muses and Bruises by Fran Lock, an activist, writer and illustrator, and one of the finest... Continue reading
Vignettes of Working Class Exhaustion by Fran Lock Malkin Sacred, not wise, the black cat’s acidcasualty stare, traversing a crumblingcul-de-sac, under a starlessly inkjet sky.We cross each... Continue reading
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