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Farewell to Smokestack Books

25 November 2024 / 181

John Green talks to Andy Croft about the achievements of Smokestack Books, in an article from the Morning Star Poetry is the most democratic form of literary expression... Continue reading

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Visual Arts

This is the Dawning of the Age of Plutocracy

25 November 2024 / 162

(Billionaires of) America First! Continue reading

Scott Alsworth

Poetry

destroying angel by Fran Lock this delicate supremacist, our cipher. tonightunder the fractioned moon, we wait. we arewaiting. for the angel, rankly warriored outof soft ground. or... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

What Three Words

25 November 2024 / 162

What Three Words by Marilyn Longstaff A clever app pinpointing a precise location,useful, simple, when it works: if you understand,if there’s a decent signal. what3wordssaw we oldies... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

Ramping up the cultural struggle: CPB conference on class and culture

25 November 2024 / 145

Around 60 people gathered last Saturday in Barnsley for the Communist Party’s first-ever conference on culture. Called ‘Class and Culture’, the conference was held in the inspiring... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Capitalism: A Horror Story’: An interview with the author

24 November 2024 / 174

Brett Gregory interviews Jon Greenaway, author of ‘Capitalism: A Horror Story’ BG: Hi, my name’s Brett Gregory, and I’m an associate editor of the UK arts, culture, and politics... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Cultural Commentary

Boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

24 November 2024 / 181

More than 1,000 authors have launched a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and Culture Matters supports the boycott. These writers... Continue reading

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Four poems from ‘What Rough Beast’

24 November 2024 / 147

The following four poems are taken from the What Rough Beast anthology of poems about Trump and Trumpism, available to download here. Image above: Rise Up My Pretties, by Martin Gollan, who... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Black History Month: Holding the Fort

24 November 2024 / 155

Holding the Fort by Mark Cassidy In April 1802, African slave soldiers took over the Fort Shirley garrison (on the Cabrits peninsula of Dominica) for three days... Continue reading

Mark Cassidy

Films

Poverty at the Movies

24 November 2024 / 169

Being able to afford something, or for a child not being able to have something, is where the narrative of poverty begins. However, it has been obscured... Continue reading

Alan McGuire

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