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1917 Centenary

A wave of creativity: music and the Russian Revolution

11 December 2017 / 417

Sabby Sagall describes the wave of creativity unleashed by the Russian Revolution, altering the course of twentieth century classical music. The carnage and brutality of World War... Continue reading

Sabby Sagall

Fiction

Swift’s satires of English colonialism

11 December 2017 / 382

On his 350th anniversary, Jenny Farrell outlines how Jonathan Swift’s books expressed and strengthened Ireland’s cultural struggle against English colonialism. Jonathan Swift was born 350 years ago,... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

1917 Centenary

The Bolsheviks and alcohol: policy and practice

10 December 2017 / 420

Keith Flett offers a brief survey of Bolshevik policy and practice towards alcohol consumption. Drink and the left has been an issue since the labour movement was... Continue reading

Keith Flett

TV, internet and other media

Let’s think about bread: the internet moves from community forum to shopping mall

10 December 2017 / 368

Dennis Broe compares the current attempts to overrule the principle of net neutrality with 18C French economists’ rejection of bread price controls. The U.S. regulatory body the... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Patrick Kavanagh

30 November 2017 / 325

On the 50th anniversary of Patrick Kavanagh’s death, Jenny Farrell draws out some of the political meanings of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem Epic. The Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Shakespeare’s Gravediggers – the first appearance of working people on the world stage

29 November 2017 / 369

Jenny Farrell discusses the prophetic politics of the Gravedigger scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which class-based justice and fundamental human equality are discussed by those whose task it... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

1917 Centenary

What’s Left? A Century in Revolution

29 November 2017 / 346

What’s Left? A Century in Revolution By Andy Byford, Anoush Ehteshami, Abir Hamdar, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián & Dušan Radunović Between 29 September and 8 October 2017, Tyneside... Continue reading

Andy Byford et al

Science & Technology

What can a Marxist approach tell us about science?

27 November 2017 / 415

Richard Clarke considers how a dialectical methodology can help scientists ask the right questions. ‘Science’ and ‘scientific’ can mean at least three different things, including: 1) the... Continue reading

mojohand

Poetry

universal credit

17 November 2017 / 464

universal credit by Fran Lock statues wake, and yawning, scrapethe birdshit from their tongues. londondrags a dirty nail across her fibroid lungs. the hoodies and the halfwits... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

A Double Act

17 November 2017 / 302

A Double Act by S. O. Fasrus ‘But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them... Continue reading

S O Fasrus

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