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Nina Simone: An Artist’s Duty Is to Reflect the Times

2 December 2019 / 432

Chris Guiton discusses Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddam Every now and then a song comes along that defines an epoch. “Mississippi Goddam” by jazz and blues singer-songwriter Nina... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Films

Blow It to Bits

27 November 2019 / 352

Rita di Santo interviews the British director Lech Kowalski, director of of Blow It to Bits Timely and urgent, but not in the daily papers, Blow It to... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

Synonyms: a denunciation of aggressive Israeli nationalism and its macho, militaristic culture

14 November 2019 / 355

Rita Di Santo reviews Synonyms by Nadav Lapid, showing at the Seville Film Festival Seville Festival is a great place to catch up with the best in... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Fiction

From the dystopian chaos of the free market to the solidarity of co-operative communism: the Maddaddam trilogy

12 November 2019 / 400

Jenny Farrell discusses Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy Margaret Atwood, who turns 80 in November 2019, has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

No More War!

10 November 2019 / 370

David Betteridge notes how Remembrance Sunday at least marks the huge cost paid by the enforced many, not the few Watching the ceremony from The Cenotaph on TV... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Music

The Beatles and British culture: chippy class warriors to eternal spiritual explorers

10 November 2019 / 367

On the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road, Philip Bounds pays tribute to ‘four cultural subversives’ through the prism of an alternative Top Ten of their songs The Beatles... Continue reading

Philip Bounds

Films

The Architects: a film about the reasons for the GDR’s collapse

8 November 2019 / 373

Jenny Farrell discusses The Architects, a film made in 1989/90 which traced the reasons for the collapse of the GDR 30 years ago, on 9 November 1990,... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

To A Different Country

6 November 2019 / 342

To A Different Country by Mike Jenkins We were selling ticketsfor a journey to a different country(our own, yet changed totally).At the station our flags flappedin a... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Visual Arts

The frackers are fracking off

4 November 2019 / 377

Cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom has admitted the fracking suspension imposed by the government is a “disappointment”, as the Conservatives face escalating pressure to introduce a permanent ban. Her remarks came as... Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Films

Joker: living without class-consciousness and solidarity

28 October 2019 / 381

Fran Lock reviews Joker’s treatment of violence, poverty, class, gender and race, and the way it subverts ‘one of capitalism’s most pernicious fictions’ If you want to get... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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