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Sacred Symphony

29 July 2020 / 341

Sacred Symphony is a new collection of poems on life in inner-city Dublin by Karl Parkinson, with images by Peter O’Doherty, ISBN: 978-1-912710-33-1 It is introduced by Father Peter McVerry,... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

Only use words if you have to: Homily of Francis

28 July 2020 / 313

Geraldine Clarkson introduces her new collection When in the last two months before publication of my first full poetry collection, Monica’s Overcoat of Flesh — the progress of... Continue reading

Geraldine Clarkson

Cultural Commentary

Poetry and class in a time of cholera

27 July 2020 / 360

Fran Lock writes about poetry and class, in the latest in the series of jointly published Morning Star/Culture Matters articles on the effects of the pandemic on... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Sport

Black Cricketers Matter: Racism, Resistance and the West Indies

24 July 2020 / 423

Sean Ledwith shows how cricket can be a site and a symbol of political liberation as well as of racist, imperialist oppression The First Test between England... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Education

Why and how education must be decolonised

21 July 2020 / 393

Razia Parveen argues that pulling down statues should only be the beginning of a radical decolonisation of the educational curriculum I didn’t know that. Why didn’t they... Continue reading

Razia Parveen

Films

Building a dissident film culture

20 July 2020 / 338

Deirdre O’Neill, in the latest in the series of Culture Matters/Morning Star articles on the effects of Covid-19 on culture, sketches out the argument for developing a... Continue reading

Deirdre ONeill

Cultural Commentary

Creativity and Class

17 July 2020 / 402

Dave Lordan, in the first of a three part series, explores creativity, the arts and cultural activities before the development of class-based societies. Poetry is indispensable –... Continue reading

Dave Lordan

Festivals/ Events

Llanelli 1911 Railway Strike Commemoration, 13th to 22nd August

15 July 2020 / 366

Over a hundred years ago, during the first national railway stoppage in Britain, the military were called out in force to quell the strike. They were deployed... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Poetry

The possibility of happiness: Maurice Levitas, the Spanish Civil War, and Pablo Neruda

15 July 2020 / 333

In the year of the CPB centenary, David Betteridge remembers Maurice Levitas, stalwart of the CPGB and a veteran of Cable St. and the Spanish Civil War... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Sport

Changing the rules of the people’s game

13 July 2020 / 342

Martin Cloake, in the latest in the joint Morning Star/ Culture Matters series on the Covid-19 pandemic and cultural activities, considers its effects on football and what’s... Continue reading

Martin Cloake

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