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The Last Ships

12 January 2019 / 343

Mike Quille reviews an exhibition of photographs of the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside. In honour of the shipyard workers of Tyneside, Chris Killip recently gave a set... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Films

Alejandro Hernandez digs out two important and interlinked political backstories from the Netflix movie Roma, about state-sponsored violence against progressive social movements, and how unequal class and... Continue reading

Alejandro Hernandez

Theatre

A Curse on War: Mother Courage and Her Children, by Bertolt Brecht

12 January 2019 / 318

Jenny Farrell writes about Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war play “Mother Courage and Her Children”, first performed in Germany 70 years ago. The play has retained its relevance as... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Ach well, all livin language is sacred: the Glasgow voice of Tom Leonard

10 January 2019 / 363

Jim Aitken presents an appreciation of the language, politics and class anger of Tom Leonard, and Peter Clive has contributed a poem about him, placed at the... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Fiction

Sugar Plum

8 January 2019 / 338

Sugar Plum by Jan Woolf A winter’s day in 2008, in Dalston, London 6am Zeina wakes, and, remembering, keeps her body as still as she can. She... Continue reading

Jan Woolf

Cultural Commentary

Rosa Luxemburg and the spiritual growth of the proletariat

3 January 2019 / 359

‘The most precious thing’ said Rosa Luxemburg, ‘in the sharp ebb and flow of the revolutionary waves is the proletariat’s spiritual growth.’ Jenny Farrell presents two letters by... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

The Student

3 January 2019 / 339

Jenny Farrell reviews The Student, a modern Russian film which is now available on DVD. Russian cinema today explores capitalism against the backdrop of a past socialist... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Religion

Jeremy Corbyn’s Good Samaritan

24 December 2018 / 405

James Crossley writes about Jeremy Corbyn’s Christmas message. Christmas is a rare time when politicians can, without too much embarrassment, openly talk about issues relating to popular... Continue reading

James Crossley

Poetry

Our comrade saints, whose unmade faces are empty airports: two poems by Fran Lock

21 December 2018 / 335

In need of saints by Fran Lock no one else to share my slanted fate. god wasroutine unrelenting splendour; too fine and fara thing to help. nervous... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Share the segments and abandon yourself: two poems by Jane Burn

21 December 2018 / 330

The Orange in the Stocking by Jane Burn The scent of citrus fills the quiet room as socks swing from the radiant mantelpiece – a conga line... Continue reading

Jane Burn

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