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What if there was no divide?

2 August 2020 / 343

What if there was no divide? by Jane Burn What if life, for so many of us wasn’t a chasm? You only have a basic understanding. It’s... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Fiction

Hollywood corruption in the McCarthy period: Left of Eden

2 August 2020 / 379

Paul Simon reviews Dennis Broe’s new novel Author Dennis Broe is an international expert on film noir and an acclaimed socialist writer, as his dialectical and highly... Continue reading

Paul Simon

Poetry

The cry of the poor from inner-city Dublin: Sacred Symphony

29 July 2020 / 362

Sacred Symphony is a new collection of poems on life in inner-city Dublin, by Karl Parkinson, with photographs by Peter O’Doherty. It includes All the Swings are Gone and is... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

Only use words if you have to: Homily of Francis

28 July 2020 / 327

Geraldine Clarkson introduces her new collection When in the last two months before publication of my first full poetry collection, Monica’s Overcoat of Flesh — the progress of... Continue reading

Geraldine Clarkson

Films

Building a dissident film culture

20 July 2020 / 353

Deirdre O’Neill, in the latest in the series of Culture Matters/Morning Star articles on the effects of Covid-19 on culture, sketches out the argument for developing a... Continue reading

Deirdre ONeill

Poetry

The possibility of happiness: Maurice Levitas, the Spanish Civil War, and Pablo Neruda

15 July 2020 / 350

In the year of the CPB centenary, David Betteridge remembers Maurice Levitas, stalwart of the CPGB and a veteran of Cable St. and the Spanish Civil War... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Visual Arts

Adam Stoneman discusses how public monuments and statues mask the arbitrariness of power. Above: the Edward Colston Statue (photo: Bristol City Council) “Great monuments are erected like dams, opposing... Continue reading

Adam Stoneman

Poetry

Living in dark times: the poetry of Bertolt Brecht

6 July 2020 / 384

Edward Mackinnon shows how Brecht successfully integrated Marxist theory into his poetic practice “What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?” “In the dark timesWill there... Continue reading

Edward Mackinnon

Fiction

The Gadfly: An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries

6 July 2020 / 376

Jenny Farrell remembers Ethel Voynich, who died 60 years ago this month, and who wrote The Gadfly – An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries Liam Mellows read this novel of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Brecht

1 July 2020 / 391

THE POETRY OF BERTOLT BRECHT “What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?” “In the dark timesWill there also be singing?Yes, there will also... Continue reading

Edward Mackinnon

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What if there was no divide?

Hollywood corruption in the McCarthy period: Left of Eden

The cry of the poor from inner-city Dublin: Sacred Symphony

Only use words if you have to: Homily of Francis

Building a dissident film culture

The possibility of happiness: Maurice Levitas, the Spanish Civil War, and Pablo Neruda

Disgraced Monuments

Living in dark times: the poetry of Bertolt Brecht

The Gadfly: An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries

Brecht

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