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The Profit Motive

30 January 2018 / 471

The Profit Motive – Part One by Owain Holland I speak to you from a secret Government facility named ‘Arthur’s Grave’ on Lundy Island. My name is... Continue reading

Owain Holland

Theatre

The cult of Shakespeare: a provocation

26 January 2018 / 367

Chris Jury tells us why he can’t stand Shakespeare. I don’t like Shakespeare. There, I’ve said it. Said the unsayable. A man who claims to be literate,... Continue reading

Chris Jury

Poetry

The Divided Self: a poem for Burns Night

25 January 2018 / 305

The Divided Self by Keith Armstrong ‘When’er my muse does on me glance, I jingle at her.’ (Robert Burns). Such an eye in a human head,from the... Continue reading

Keith Armstrong

Cultural Commentary

Promoting creativity: towards a socialist cultural policy

16 January 2018 / 342

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt offers a critique of the section in the 2017 Labour Manifesto on Culture for All, and some suggestions for promoting creativity for everyone, to benefit our... Continue reading

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt

Music

Sidney Finkelstein: an appreciation of the great Marxist cultural critic

12 January 2018 / 328

Dan Rosenberg offers an appreciation of Sidney Finkelstein, who died on 14 January 1974. Out Jumped Sidney The Marxist cultural critic Sidney Finkelstein lived in a suitcase... Continue reading

Daniel Rosenberg

Cultural Commentary

Listen to the Revolution: free ebook on 1917, art and culture

11 January 2018 / 348

‘With all your body, all your heart and all your mind, listen to the Revolution.’ said the poet Alexander Blok in 1918. As the centenary year of... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Theatre

Spotlights and Searchlights: Theatre and the Russian Revolution

4 January 2018 / 370

In a tribute to Russia’s theatrical experimenters, for whom the Revolution promised a new world of artistic possibilities, Amy Skinner presents a brief history of an art... Continue reading

Amy Skinner

Poetry

Our common humanity: Robert Burns and For A’ That

1 January 2018 / 317

Jenny Farrell discusses the focus on our common humanity in Robert Burns’s For A’ That, and the way it foretells the ‘programme which will govern the world... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

The Aleppo Room: a lost world of cultural harmony

23 December 2017 / 352

Jenny Farrell shows the poignant seasonal relevance of the wonderfully inclusive art in the Syrian Aleppo House. With everything that is happening in the world at the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Religion

Religion: opium of the people?

12 December 2017 / 332

In the first of a series of essays on Marxism and religion, Roland Boer discusses Marx’s description of religion as ‘the opium of the people’. It is... Continue reading

Roland Boer

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