Richard King teases out the links between Marxism, Buddhism and socialism. The Dalai Lama and Marxism Dhammic Socialism according to Buddhist principles holds that Nature created beings... Continue reading
Jack Newsinger reviews the documentary film The Acting Class, by Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne, which gives voice to the struggles of actors of working-class origin as... Continue reading
Keith Flett considers the various references to the role beer played in the lives of Marx and Engels. There have been many and varied attempts over the... Continue reading
Tom Walker discusses how corporate profiteers are capturing a vital social resource – information about ourselves. How can we de-commodify our everyday lives and even our resistance?... Continue reading
Professor John Storey outlines Marx and Engels’ theoretical contributions to cultural theory. Although Karl Marx did not have a fully developed theory of culture, it is possible... Continue reading
What would a radical, socialist culture policy look like? Last September I reported on The World Transformed festival, organised by Momentum alongside the Labour Party conference in... Continue reading
David Betteridge gives a personal account of reading Marx, with drawings by Bob Starrett. Fifty years ago, when I was training to be a teacher at Neville’s... Continue reading
Richard Clarke reviews The Bleeding Edge, by Bob Hughes, New Internationalist 2016 A discussion paper published by the (left-leaning) Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) at the... Continue reading
James Crossley argues for the importance of the radical Christian tradition as an important resource for the revolutionary transformation of the world. On becoming leader of the... Continue reading
Richard Clarke outlines how religion, like any other cultural activity, is capable of both promoting political and social liberation, and being manipulated and controlled by ruling classes... Continue reading