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An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times. I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times? That to me is the definition of an artist.

Nina Simone

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JD Meatyard

15 November 2017 / 306

Chris Guiton interviews jd meatyard, who describes himself as a left field artist much favoured in his Levellers 5 and Calvin Party days by the late great John... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

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Lankum

29 October 2017 / 342

Mike Quille interviews Ian Lynch from the four-piece traditional Irish folk group Lankum, formerly known as Lynched, who are currently on tour. Mike: I appreciate you must... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Music

Singing for Peace and Socialism: Birmingham’s Clarion Singers

17 October 2017 / 459

Graham Stevenson reports on the recent concert. Birmingham’s Clarion Singers, 77 years young this year, recently celebrated with an Autumn Concert with a full programme of songs... Continue reading

Graham Stevenson

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Accessible, Educational, Radical: The Communist Composer Alan Bush

9 October 2017 / 282

Andy Croft reviews a new book out about the communist composer Alan Bush. The composer Alan Bush (1900-95) is usually described as a man of unresolved contradictions,... Continue reading

Andy Croft

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Boff Whalley from the Commoners Choir was interviewed recently in the Morning Star. Here, he describes the background to the choir’s manifesto. ‘Surrealism asserts our complete nonconformism... Continue reading

Boff Whalley

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Coltrane’s revolutionary musical journey

22 August 2017 / 389

Greg Godels traces John Coltrane’s revolutionary music against its 60s background of class conflict and Black liberation struggles. John Coltrane died fifty years ago this past July.... Continue reading

Greg Godels

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Grime helps launch a revolution in youth politics

17 July 2017 / 394

Monique Charles examines the links between grime and progressive politics. It became clear on June 9 that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call a snap... Continue reading

Monique Charles

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Art as a weapon to defend the oppressed

12 April 2017 / 329

Tayo Aluko gives us the background to his one man show about Paul Robeson. I remember singing Deep River in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool at a... Continue reading

Tayo Aluko

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Celebrating the politics of punk

4 April 2017 / 356

8th April is the 40th Anniversary of The Clash’s debut album. Mark Perryman reminds us what the 1977 punk and politics mix was all about. The birth of punk... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Music

The struggle never ends

21 February 2017 / 363

Like all artists, musicians enhance the quality of our lives, and expand the cultural commons which we need as much as the air we breathe. Chris Wood... Continue reading

Mike Quille

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An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times. I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times? That to me is the definition of an artist.

JD Meatyard

Lankum

Singing for Peace and Socialism: Birmingham’s Clarion Singers

Accessible, Educational, Radical: The Communist Composer Alan Bush

A Manifesto for a Choir

Coltrane’s revolutionary musical journey

Grime helps launch a revolution in youth politics

Art as a weapon to defend the oppressed

Celebrating the politics of punk

The struggle never ends

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