Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt offers a critique of the section in the 2017 Labour Manifesto on Culture for All, and some suggestions for promoting creativity for everyone, to benefit our... Continue reading
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‘With all your body, all your heart and all your mind, listen to the Revolution.’ said the poet Alexander Blok in 1918. As the centenary year of... Continue reading
Richard Clarke introduces some of the main Marxist insights into the nature and value of art, and its links to political and economic realities. Most Marxists would... Continue reading
Sandy Grant proposes that in times like these, it is poets who speak the most serious words of them all. Her article is followed by a poem by... Continue reading
Mike Quille traces the links between corporate sponsorship and the distortion of history and art, in two recent exhibitions. How do the ruling classes manipulate art and... Continue reading
Lynn Mally tells the story of Proletkult, the experimental Soviet artistic institution which was in the vanguard of Russia’s cultural revolution in 1917. Two years after the... Continue reading
Chris Guiton analyses and discusses the importance of the concept of the cultural commons. In the 21st century we are witnessing the rapid encroachment by capitalism on... Continue reading
‘The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too’ said the aptly named Rose Schneiderman early in the last century. She was right, we all... Continue reading
Nick Wright reviews Neoliberal Culture, edited by Jeremy Gilbert, a challenging collection of essays which exposes the ideological and cultural project behind neoliberalism. Capitalist realism is a... Continue reading
Nick Wright reviews Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship, by Erdmut Wizisla. The diverse appropriations of Walter Benjamin – the cultural theorist and critic — of his... Continue reading
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