Blog – Page 12 – Culture Matters

Class consciousness and a commitment to liberation: Duke Ellington and his music

6 May 2024 / 559

Duke Ellington, a prominent figure in music and cultural history, especially in jazz, died fifty years ago on May 24, 1974. Edward Kennedy Ellington was born into... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

‘Prophet Song’: The secular apocalypse

6 May 2024 / 412

In his book, How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, Thomas... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Cultural Commentary

Culture Creation versus Commodity Creation: Labour’s Plans for the Arts, Culture and Creativity

6 May 2024 / 585

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

Jon Baldwin and Brett Gregory

Cultural Commentary

Review of ‘Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero’

6 May 2024 / 509

Jon Baldwin reviews the new book by Gregor Gall, Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero (Manchester University Press, 2024) Mick Lynch is a 60-year-old London... Continue reading

Jon Baldwin

Poetry

Rishi’s Mission and The Charge of the Tory Brigade

6 May 2024 / 351

Image above by Martin Gollan Rishi’s Mission by Stuart McFarlane Rishi, your mission, should you choose to accept it,is to win a majority at the next election.This... Continue reading

Stuart McFarlane

Visual Arts

Schrödinger’s Tories: May council elections

6 May 2024 / 535

Martin Gollan

Poetry

Happy Republic Day!

4 May 2024 / 547

The campaign group Republic, working towards the abolition of the monarchy and its replacement by a directly elected head of state, have organised a day of protest... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

Red Traces: A Marxist history of culture and class struggle

3 May 2024 / 541

Sean Ledwith introduces his new book The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner The essays are written in the spirit of Leon Trotsky’s... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Poetry

‘You’re lifted, Trotsky—in the fucking van.’ Perfectly timed to chime with the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike 1984-85, this collaborative poetry pamphlet is powerfully delivered by... Continue reading

Sarah Wimbush

This is the News

26 April 2024 / 363

This is the News by David Betteridge Today: Household Cavalry horses run amok through London streets, their riders having lost control. Most days: Multitudinous rivers of sewage... Continue reading

David Betteridge

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Class consciousness and a commitment to liberation: Duke Ellington and his music

‘Prophet Song’: The secular apocalypse

Culture Creation versus Commodity Creation: Labour’s Plans for the Arts, Culture and Creativity

Review of ‘Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero’

Rishi’s Mission and The Charge of the Tory Brigade

Schrödinger’s Tories: May council elections

Happy Republic Day!

Red Traces: A Marxist history of culture and class struggle

The Orgreave Stations

This is the News

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