Jon Baldwin and Brett Gregory analyse Labour’s Plan for the Arts, Culture and Creative Industries On the 13th March 2024 Bracknell News reported that Sir Keir Starmer... Continue reading
As part of the Culture for All series, supported by the Communication Workers Union, we’re proud to present a short film about why film matters, by Deirdre O’Neill. Why... Continue reading
Next up in our series of short films about culture and cultural democracy is a film by Martin Cloake on football, followed by the text of his... 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
Natalie Fenton points to the need for less concentrated ownership and more democratic control of the media, in the wake of the Covid-ap pandemic. The media are vital... Continue reading
Deirdre O’Neill explains how the Inside Film project is implementing the principles of cultural democracy, by making a stand with the downtrodden, impoverished and silenced working class. Inside... Continue reading
Roland Boer answers questions about religion, capitalism, Christian communism – and Christmas. Culture Matters is also giving away a downloadable PDF of Professor Boer’s new ebook on Christian communism,... Continue reading
Stephen Pritchard offers some provocations on themes around instrumentalism of the arts and artists, gentrification and artwashing in the age of neoliberal capitalism. Many people in the artworld... Continue reading
Mike Quille reviews Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience, and interviews the editor, Paul Sng. Paul Sng’s films – Sleaford Mods, and Dispossession: The Great Housing... Continue reading
Chris Guiton and Mike Quille present an analysis of what culture means, and what a democratic and socialist approach to culture policy might look like. Introduction The mission... Continue reading