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Dunkirk: Keep Calm and Carry On?

25 August 2017 / 465

Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a ‘truly radical flowering’... Continue reading

Daniel Clarkson Fisher

Music

Coltrane’s revolutionary musical journey

22 August 2017 / 442

Greg Godels traces John Coltrane’s revolutionary music against its 60s background of class conflict and Black liberation struggles. John Coltrane died fifty years ago this past July.... Continue reading

Greg Godels

Films

Dunkirk – a visceral account of the Allied retreat

14 August 2017 / 369

Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture... Continue reading

Michael Roberts

Visual Arts

Guernica

6 August 2017 / 373

Jenny Farrell takes us through one of the greatest political artworks ever, Picasso’s Guernica. There are a handful of pictures that may be said to be almost... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Beers and photo both courtesy of Cloudwater brewery

Eating & Drinking

‘London Murky’, Mrs. T., and the politics of the haze craze

29 July 2017 / 479

Keith Flett gets the round in again, tracing the political impact of Mrs. T on bright fined beer with his usal wit and clarity (geddit?). It’s not... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Poetry

More than ‘Rise like lions’: Shelley beyond The Mask of Anarchy

26 July 2017 / 549

Mike Sanders writes about Shelley ‘the Chartist poet’ as a catalyst for working class creativity, how he envisioned a communist society, and how the privileged classes refused... Continue reading

Mike Sanders

Music

Grime helps launch a revolution in youth politics

17 July 2017 / 445

Monique Charles examines the links between grime and progressive politics. It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call a snap... Continue reading

Monique Charles

Visual Arts

For the many, not the few: Liars of Earth at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art

11 July 2017 / 405

Mike Quille reviews the national premiere of Liars of Earth, and interviews the artist. Review of the Drawing Chad McCail’s 100-foot long drawing depicts a series of... Continue reading

Mike Quille

TV, internet and other media

Lenin didn’t have Facebook and never watched the telly

10 July 2017 / 313

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

Peter Frost

Films

‘The most important of the arts’: film after the Russian Revolution

26 June 2017 / 516

John Green outlines the role of film in the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound and lasting influence of Russian revolutionary film-makers on cinema not only in the... Continue reading

John Green

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