Blog – Page 89 – Culture Matters

The film itself is Bait

10 September 2019 / 296

Class conflict, and the various ways class divisions are expressed and resolved in personal relationships, from outright violence to affection and peaceful co-existence, form the central themes... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Music

Attica Blues: The Power of Music

10 September 2019 / 346

Chris Guiton discusses the Attica prison riot of September 1971, and Archie Shepp’s creative response to it In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot that the United States... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Music

By the folk, of the folk and for the folk: Joe Corrie and the Bowhill Players

9 September 2019 / 328

Tom Hubbard writes about Fife’s folk culture, past and present There are books which, discovered when you are young, remain a moral and artistic compass for you... Continue reading

Tom Hubbard

Sport

Don’t just spectate, agitate! Bury, Bolton, and the capitalist takeover of football

4 September 2019 / 331

Doc Ritchie tells us to resist capitalist accumulation in football by tightening regulation and changing the ownership and management of football clubs. Images courtesy of fan-owned Clapton... Continue reading

Doc Ritchie

Poetry

Revolution

4 September 2019 / 311

Revolution by Sally Flint Top of Google it’s a wine bar, a game,a make-up range. I recall science lessons ‒to rotate, twirl, circuit, cycle, orbit.It’s the Earth... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Fiction

Finnegans Wake, fascism, and the essential unity of the human race

3 September 2019 / 336

Sean Ledwith shows how Finnegans Wake, far from being an incomprehensible waste of Joyce’s genius, is an anti-fascist masterwork, uniting and celebrating the wholeness, richness and vibrancy... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Visual Arts

The revolutionary realism of ‘Peasant Bruegel’

31 August 2019 / 341

Jenny Farrell discusses the life and work of ‘Peasant Bruegel’, unearthing the radically subversive protests and criticisms of political domination which are expressed so beautifully in his... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Eating & Drinking

Big Beer and Big Capital – What is to be done?

31 August 2019 / 351

Keith Flett discusses the challenge of Big Beer and Big Capital in 2019/20. What is to be done to resist and oppose them? Beer writer Roger Protz... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Fiction

The Cave of Gold

26 August 2019 / 402

David Betteridge re-tells an old tale, inspired by John Berger, Timothy Neat, and Margaret Bennett, with drawings by Bob Starrett The Cave of Gold by David Betteridge On... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Music

Jazz and Justice

26 August 2019 / 312

Daniel Rosenberg reviews Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music by Gerald Horne. Capitalism turns art into product, which is put on the shelf... Continue reading

Daniel Rosenberg

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