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The Folded Lie

31 October 2019 / 321

£7 plus £3 p.and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-24-9 In September 1939, W. H. Auden wrote these words: All I have is a voiceTo undo the folded lie 80... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Cultural Commentary

Lively, incisive and erudite: Marxist Literary Criticism Today, by Barbara Foley

30 October 2019 / 460

Tony McKenna praises Marxist Literary Criticism Today (Pluto Press, £19.99) for its clarity, coherence, and insightfulness For the last few decades the world of ‘Marxist’ literary criticism... Continue reading

Tony McKenna

Films

Joker: living without class-consciousness and solidarity

28 October 2019 / 369

Fran Lock reviews Joker’s treatment of violence, poverty, class, gender and race, and the way it subverts ‘one of capitalism’s most pernicious fictions’ If you want to get... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Visual Arts

Throne of Blood: an image of Iran

26 October 2019 / 344

Throne Of Blood…….For Iran Paperboard, Watercolour & Rotring Rapid, 79cm x 57cm, April 2019 Continue reading

Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie

Music

Béla Bartók: folk music, censorship and anti-fascism

23 October 2019 / 342

Michael Jarvie discusses the life and work of Béla Bartók If you’ve ever seen Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining you will have heard some of Bartók’s characteristic... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Films

Sorry We Missed You: how capitalism is destroying working-class families

11 October 2019 / 540

Sorry We Missed You is director Ken Loach’s follow-up to his excoriating I, Daniel Blake which exposed how the welfare system has been turned into an apparatus... Continue reading

Mike Wayne

Poetry

Because There Is No Planet B

10 October 2019 / 313

Because There Is No Planet B by Sally Flint WE MARCH to the square, as if we might clear the atmosphere’s carbon overload by shouting: It’s not too... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Poetry

My Blood

10 October 2019 / 379

My blood by Sutputra Radheye poets are sleepingwith flowers in gardens across brothelswhen the rest of the city-crumbles like pieces of breadfalling in the fire of communalism.... Continue reading

Sutputra Radheye

Poetry

A Very Northern Inheritance

10 October 2019 / 281

A Very Northern Inheritance by Linda Burnett An agony of worker aunts passed martyrdom along the female line. Each rivulet of steam and sweat, reamed achingly from... Continue reading

Linda Burnett

Films

Culture Punch: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and righteous anti-capitalist violence

8 October 2019 / 351

Paul Tims argues that Tarantino’s assertion of the value of violence in his latest film has a message for anti-capitalist activists I’m a huge Tarantino fan. You’re... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

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