Blog – Page 91 – Culture Matters

Poetic Justice

9 July 2019 / 321

Poetic Justice by Moya Roddy Fuckin’ mad, Stacey thinks, eyeing the crowd milling outside the theatre. Imagine goin’ to hear poetry this hour of the morning. Across... Continue reading

Moya Roddy

TV, internet and other media

After Life

8 July 2019 / 383

Tony McKenna reviews After Life, the new black comedy-drama written by Ricky Gervais for Netflix Ricky Gervais has two seminal qualities which make him a wonderful writer. ... Continue reading

Tony McKenna

Visual Arts

Anti-war and anti-fascist German art: Otto Dix and George Grosz

1 July 2019 / 404

Jenny Farrell remembers Otto Dix and George Grosz, two German artists whose work was dedicated to the fight against fascism and war The painters Otto Dix and George... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Culture by and for the working class – Inside Film and cultural democracy

28 June 2019 / 359

Deirdre O’Neill explains how the Inside Film project is implementing the principles of cultural democracy, by making a stand with the downtrodden, impoverished and silenced working class. Inside... Continue reading

Deirdre ONeill

Visual Arts

Rembrandt the outsider

26 June 2019 / 353

Dennis Broe reviews the recent Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt the outsider? At first glance nothing could be further from the truth. Rembrandt is being... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Theatre

It’s the revolution or the doors: a review of an early Brecht play

25 June 2019 / 419

Anthony Squiers reviews Trommeln in der Nacht at the Münchner Kammerspiele, which ‘rescues the Tentative Brecht’ On September 29, 1922 the Münchner Kammerspiele premiered Trommeln in der... Continue reading

Anthony Squiers

Fiction

Solidarity against everyday exploitation: Stephen King’s IT

25 June 2019 / 459

Tony McKenna looks back at Stephen King’s IT Some years ago, a study was carried out into the fears of young children in the night. Just before the... Continue reading

Tony McKenna

Poetry

£77 per hour

24 June 2019 / 343

£77 per hour by Becky Bone nine thousand two hundred and fifty9250pounds per year (1 year = 20 weeks) four hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty... Continue reading

Becky Bone

Cultural Commentary

Profound new visions of a better world: why we need cultural education

10 June 2019 / 415

Chris Guiton explains why it is essential that the labour movement uses a variety of political and cultural educational programmes to make the case for socialism Antonio Gramsci’s... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Poetry

Christ is a communist and God is a miner: ‘The Sair Road’ by William Hershaw

31 May 2019 / 479

Jim Aitken reviews The Sair Road, by Willie Hershaw. The header image and all others in this review are by Les McConnell, the illustrator Far from creating... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

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