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Five Ways Of Thinking About Society and Politics

4 March 2023 / 329

FIVE WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT SOCIETY & POLITICS by David Betteridge, with drawing above by Bob Starrett Three of the five ways of thinking expressed beloware overly... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Fiction

‘Siblings’: the search for a new humanity through socialism in the GDR

24 February 2023 / 391

“Siblings” by German Democratic Republic writer Brigitte Reiman has just been published in English translation by Penguin, in its series of classic international literature. It comes sixty... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Punches Full of Peace and Phones Full of Tomorrows: Two poems by Fred Voss

11 February 2023 / 303

Punches Full of Peace by Fred Voss Fist-knockshave replaced handshakesin this machine shopinstead of squeezing palms we hold out fistsand bump knuckles in the airbetween usI guess... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Theatre

Brendan Behan: playwright, poet, novelist, socialist and republican

6 February 2023 / 411

On the 100th anniversary of Behan’s birth in 1923, Jenny Farrell celebrates his life and work. Photo above by William Murphy Brendan Behan was arguably one of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Capital

1 February 2023 / 362

níl súil ina cheanndhá pholl dhú’ ag stánadh orainnníl aon anam ann géaga leata mar bhultúr chun barróg a bhreith orainn look, he has no eyesjust two... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Visual Arts

A Cultural Dispatch From War-Torn Europe: Art, Theatre and Music in Vienna

28 January 2023 / 403

It’s hardly the ruined, devastated postwar rubble that was the backdrop of the most famous film shot in Vienna, The Third Man (see image above), but in... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

We Are Here To Stay: Poems by Tawfiq Zayyad

25 January 2023 / 349

At the start of 2023, the state of Israel installed a new government. This new ultranationalist religious cabinet included Itamar Ben-Gvir, a lawyer who had already established... Continue reading

Nick Moss

Poetry

If….

22 January 2023 / 353

If by Martin Rowson If you can keep your head when all about youAre telling you its contents don’t inspire;If you can trust yourself when all men... Continue reading

Martin Rowson

Life Writing

I’d rather be striker than a scab

15 January 2023 / 400

I’d rather be a striker than a scab by Michael Jarvie It’s Wednesday, the 4th of January, and yet another day of the protracted RMT strike. When... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Films

The Banshees of Inisherin

15 January 2023 / 307

International film awards are by no means a good film guide, and this applies as much to The Banshees of Inisherin as to other films. The story... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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