Peter Frost discusses the uses and abuses of social media, and how its innately social character makes it a useful communications platform for socialists. Lenin died in... Continue reading
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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
Melissa Oldham charts how media representation of ideal body shapes, driven by the need to maximise profits, leads to negative body images in women and men. Feminine... Continue reading
Dr. Anthony Sullivan explains why and how fashion matters, in an era when‘fast fashion’ highlights the absurd waste of precious energy and resources by capitalism’s ‘favourite child’.... 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
In a superb foundation essay for our science and technology section, Helena Sheehan traces the historical contribution of marxism to science studies, and argues not only for... Continue reading
Dr. Joanne Entwistle offers a foundation essay on fashion, and the everyday creative cultural activity of clothing ourselves. Not so very long ago, fashion was a rather... Continue reading
Dr Geoff Bright introduces a fascinating arts-based educational project, concerned with remembering, re-imagining and re-enacting alternative community futures in the abandoned, de-industrialised pit communities in the North... Continue reading
Chris Guiton presents a foundation essay for the education section, sketching out some of the links between education, culture and capitalism. The purpose of this introductory article... Continue reading
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