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‘Heed the truth/Spoken by the youth!’ Stories of political activism by young people at the Battle of Cable Street

7 May 2019 / 345

As young people take to the streets to protest about climate change, Kim Reynolds discusses the way political activism by young people at the Battle of Cable... Continue reading

Kim Reynolds

Poetry

Mobilise the books! A review of Shabbigentile

1 May 2019 / 318

Andy Croft reviews Shabbigentile, by Alan Morrison. There is a long poem in Alan Morrison’s fantastic new collection Shabbigentile (Culture Matters, £9, available here) about the 1930s... Continue reading

Andy Croft

TV, internet and other media

The Voices

19 April 2019 / 342

The Voices by Jim Mainland, with images by Peter Long The voices arrived every morning. In fact, I often seemed to wake to their jibber-jabber. They weren’t the... Continue reading

Jim Mainland

Music

Happy 100th birthday, Pete Seeger

19 April 2019 / 357

Jenny Farrell honours Pete Seeger as we near what would have been his 100th birthday There are few people more famous in the political song movement than... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa and the dialectics of nature

19 April 2019 / 336

Jenny Farrell presents the historical background and the art of Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago, on 2 May 1519. New trends in art do... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Sport

Culture Punch: reforming the videogames industry

17 April 2019 / 369

Paul V. Tims looks at the games industry from a socialist perspective It probably won’t surprise my regular readers to learn that I love videogames. What better... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

TV, internet and other media

Don’t just stop the wheel, break it! Feudalism, capitalism and revolution in Game of Thrones

12 April 2019 / 311

Sean Ledwith reviews Game of Thrones The trailers have been scrutinised down to every second of footage. The stars have conducted their interviews in the form of... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Fiction

A vision of the world to come: Liam O’Flaherty’s ‘Hollywood Cemetery’

8 April 2019 / 373

Jenny Farrell reviews Liam O’Flaherty’s re-issued novel,“Hollywood Cemetery” Published in London in 1935, but never re-issued until now, “Hollywood Cemetery” is one of five novels by O’Flaherty... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Can we buy the marbles sir? A school trip to the British Museum

31 March 2019 / 444

Phil Brett takes his primary school class for a dialectical trip round the British Museum ... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Fiction

Exposing the exploitative nature of capitalism: the life and writings of B. Traven

31 March 2019 / 351

Jenny Farrell introduces B. Traven, a writer who stood consistently and unreservedly on the side of the working class and the oppressed. Like Robert Tressell, his novels and... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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