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Diptych of Drones: a Brechtian poem

7 June 2016 / 322

Diptych of Drones 1. Convenience Killing Over eight thousand miles awayfrom where the devastation wasa zap-happy, kapow-cowboyyeehah’d from his computer screen. A funeral party had diedin the... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Theatre

Is Shakespeare Universal?

7 June 2016 / 377

Professor Gabriel Egan concludes his series on Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s fellow playwright Ben Jonson paid him a compliment that has come to haunt the study of plays from... Continue reading

Gabriel Egan

Theatre

Theatre and Politics: Book Review

7 June 2016 / 368

Gordon Parsons reviews Joe Kelleher’s book on theatre and politics. W. H. Auden’s insisted that all his poetry put together had not saved a single Jew, and... Continue reading

Gordon Parsons

Music

Music and Marxism

7 June 2016 / 548

In the second part of his series, Mark Abel asks how Marxists should judge music. In the first part of this series of articles, I argued that... Continue reading

Mark Abel

Films

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

7 June 2016 / 336

Is there a British band in today’s music industry that definitively reflects or comments on the consequences of Tory austerity? Or one that is a direct reaction... Continue reading

Will Stone

Visual Arts

Free all political prisoners

1 June 2016 / 306

Mina Boromand & Chris Bird

Music

No-one’s little girl: gender and guitars in post-punk pop music

27 May 2016 / 729

Phil Brett riffs on the political meanings of some great post-punk pop groups. Forty years ago punk exploded into the national conscience, with bands like The Clash,... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Cultural Commentary

Culture is ordinary: the politics and letters of Raymond Williams

25 May 2016 / 611

Derek Wall introduces the life and work of Raymond Williams, and presents a review of a recent book about his politics and writings. Raymond Williams, born in... Continue reading

Derek Wall

Visual Arts

Cultural beheading: art from Syrian refugees

23 May 2016 / 385

Since the start of war in Syria, politics has taken over discussion whenever the country’s name is mentioned. However, the Hikayetna project concentrates on the human side... Continue reading

Amir Darwish

Religion

Marx’s revolutionary reading of the Bible

20 May 2016 / 405

Roland Boer continues his series on Marxism and religion with a look at some examples of how Marx interpreted the Bible. The mention of Marx and the... Continue reading

Roland Boer

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