Category: Cultural Commentary

Ramping up the cultural struggle: CPB conference on class and culture

25 November 2024 / 114

Around 60 people gathered last Saturday in Barnsley for the Communist Party’s first-ever conference on culture. Called ‘Class and Culture’, the conference was held in the inspiring... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

Boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

24 November 2024 / 142

More than 1,000 authors have launched a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and Culture Matters supports the boycott. These writers... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

What is the source of alienation? Jim Aitken reviews ‘Soil and Soul’ by Alistair McIntosh

24 November 2024 / 124

Soil and Soulwas first published in 2001, and it was a thoroughly well-received book. In his Foreword to it, George Monbiot described it as ‘a ground-breaking book.’ ... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Cultural Commentary

Fair Play Cabaret: shows with a social and political purpose

8 October 2024 / 153

Fair Play Cabaret With the backing of Equity, a cultural campaign is being launched which is centred around an ongoing series of events across the country. They... Continue reading

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‘A deep, poetic beauty’: Review of ‘This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land’ by Charlie Hill

16 September 2024 / 139

Bobby Seal from the Psychogeographic Review reviews This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land by Charlie Hill I had for some time believed the key to effective writing... Continue reading

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Cultural Commentary

Cultural heritage and cultural democracy

12 September 2024 / 127

Richard Penderyn outlines some of the current problems in the heritage industry, and some ways of introducing cultural democracy Heritage and the historic environment in the UK... Continue reading

Richard Penderyn

Cultural Commentary

What’s the source of alienation? Jim Aitken reviews ‘Soil and Soul’ by Alistair McIntosh

7 September 2024 / 127

Soil and Soul was first published in 2001 and it was a thoroughly well-received book. In his Foreword to it, George Monbiot described it as ‘a ground-breaking... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Cultural Commentary

Class and Culture: Conference and Social

14 August 2024 / 129

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Cultural Commentary

Review of ‘Left Cultures 2, a Lexicon of stories past and present’

26 July 2024 / 112

In the Foreword to this publication we are asked to reflect on how Left-leaning culture has helped to inspire us. What was the journey we made? What... Continue reading

Dermot Foster

Cultural Commentary

Left Cultures: A Lexicon of Stories Past and Present.

26 July 2024 / 143

Left Cultures delves deep into the left’s cultural past to discuss gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art, people, place and much much more. Cultures... Continue reading

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