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Love and Politics: a tanka

31 July 2022 / 364

Love and Politics: a tanka (Japanese extended haiku-like verse-form: 31 syllables in all; lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables, rhyming ababb) 1 (Love-Poet) Love is... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Poetry

Jean Valjean stole that loaf of bread for all of us

30 July 2022 / 344

Jean Valjean stole that loaf of bread for all of us by Fred Voss These machinists or welders or overhead crane operatorswho voted for Trumpand wave huge... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

Vigil

28 July 2022 / 288

Vigil by Lya Vollering When we heard in 2021 about the plans of this government to turn the notorious youth prison in Medomsley, Co. Durham (1800 young... Continue reading

Lya Vollering

Films

America’s 1940s Pro-Soviet films: Social Realist Cinema in the USA

25 July 2022 / 457

There was a brief moment in time in the 1940s, when the USA was at one with Russia or as it was known then, the Soviet Union.... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Poetry

Please Be Advised

21 July 2022 / 339

Please Be Advised by Helen Bovaird Ryan I’d just like to start this morning by welcoming you one and allTo this wonderful institution Our government, many thanks... Continue reading

Helen Bovaird Ryan

Music

Tribute to a folk legend – Woody Guthrie, a radical icon

16 July 2022 / 390

To mark the 110th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birthday on July 14, 1912, here is an edited version of an interview with Bobbi and Steve Siegelbaum from the... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Music

Radicalism, resistance and rebellion: The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer

7 July 2022 / 356

Joe Strummer, leader, lead singer and lyricist for the seminal punk band, The Clash, died twenty years ago this year. But long after his death and that... Continue reading

Gregor Gall

Poetry

Crossing Troubled Waters: A review of Jim Aitken’s ‘Declarations of Love’

4 July 2022 / 390

What I like about Jim Aitken’s poems is the way they can surprise us by travelling at speed from A to B, and sometimes a lot further.... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Apocryphal Idols

30 June 2022 / 379

Apocryphal Idols by Cheryl Vail, with image above by Martin Gollan Liberty’s a goddess yet how can she embody her name when she isn’t permitted to be ... Continue reading

Cheryl Vail

Fiction

The working class liberates itself: Review of ‘Joe Stafford: A Tale of Revolution’, by Charles Andrews.

29 June 2022 / 480

When is the last time you read an exciting story about the working class engaged in determined and successful struggle? This is just what Charles Andrews sets... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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