Andy Croft reminds us of the radicalism of the early Dadaist movement. A hundred years after the Cabaret Voltaire first opened its doors in Zurich, it is... Continue reading
500 years after the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia, and days after Jeremy Corbyn’s election victory, Professor John Storey explains how utopian thinking seeks to place hope, optimism... Continue reading
Keith Flett continues his series with a question: is there a link between class and what you drink? The upper classes are supposed to drink fine wines... Continue reading
With six years of Tory austerity behind us, Brexit on the horizon and the left-wing reorientation of the Labour Party ongoing, Culture Matters is starting a debate... Continue reading
Darren Pih, Exhibitions & Displays Curator, Tate Liverpool writes about Tracey Emin & William Blake in Focus at Tate Liverpool: 16 September 2016 to 3 September 2017.... Continue reading
Mark Abel continues his analysis of how Marxists should appreciate and evaluate music. In the first part of this article, I argued that critique was at the... Continue reading
Phil Brett draws some lessons for today’s refugee crisis from Casablanca. Casablanca often features in lists of favourite films, and often receives highbrow scoffing. The novelist and... Continue reading
When The Well Runs Dry by Alan Dunnett I got to the piss-edge last nightsharp and painful like an infectionwith you below looking upfrom a hole in... Continue reading
Professor Roland Boer continues his series with a discussion of religion and membership of communist parties. Is it possible to join a communist party as a religious... Continue reading
Phil Brett introduces the art of Cornelia Parker. I was only vaguely familiar with the artist Cornelia Parker, when in 1998, Steve, a... Continue reading