Dave Lordan continues his series on culture, class and civilisation About 10,000 years ago, after 3.6 million years of the Stone Age, humanity began to slowly and... Continue reading
Lyndsey Ayre writes about the class problem in publishing On the inside cover of the 2019 edition of Tove Ditlevsen’s Childhood – the first of her autobiographical... Continue reading
Sean Ledwith writes about how colonialism and racism has conditioned the history of Test cricket between Pakistan and England This summer’s Test series between England and Pakistan... Continue reading
David Betteridge writes critically and creatively about the artwork above, Nature writing, Bertolt Brecht, and eco-communism. The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount... Continue reading
Theresa Easton, Northern Organiser for Artists’ Union England, shows how the Covid crisis should be tackled by applying the principles of cultural democracy. The image above is... Continue reading
Razia Parveen criticises the government’s decision to make poetry optional for study at GCSE level. The image above is of John Agard The Tory government has recently... Continue reading
Rod Stoneman outlines proposals for developing new, more radical and progressive media You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from... Continue reading
Fran Lock writes about poetry and class, in the latest in the series of jointly published Morning Star/Culture Matters articles on the effects of the pandemic on... Continue reading
Sean Ledwith shows how cricket can be a site and a symbol of political liberation as well as of racist, imperialist oppression The First Test between England... Continue reading
Razia Parveen argues that pulling down statues should only be the beginning of a radical decolonisation of the educational curriculum I didn’t know that. Why didn’t they... Continue reading