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A brief and breathtakingly brilliant life: Christopher Caudwell, activist and intellectual

2 May 2018 / 317

Helena Sheehan reviews the life and work of Christopher Caudwell. Christopher Caudwell Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell Edited by David Margolies, Pluto, London, 2018.... Continue reading

Helena Sheehan

Cultural Commentary

‘Dreams to live on’: The Acting Class and working-class diversity in the arts

25 April 2018 / 345

Jack Newsinger reviews the documentary film The Acting Class, by Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne, which gives voice to the struggles of actors of working-class origin as... Continue reading

Jack Newsinger

Cultural Commentary

Marx and culture

15 April 2018 / 347

Professor John Storey outlines Marx and Engels’ theoretical contributions to cultural theory. Although Karl Marx did not have a fully developed theory of culture, it is possible... Continue reading

John Storey

Cultural Commentary

Their walls are our stones

5 April 2018 / 300

What would a radical, socialist culture policy look like? Last September I reported on The World Transformed festival, organised by Momentum alongside the Labour Party conference in... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Cultural Commentary

Reading Marx

31 March 2018 / 441

David Betteridge gives a personal account of reading Marx, with drawings by Bob Starrett. Fifty years ago, when I was training to be a teacher at Neville’s... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Cultural Commentary

Time to take art back from the capitalists: a brief history of art and artwashing

15 February 2018 / 289

Stephen Pritchard outlines a brief history of art, property and artwashing, and calls on us to take art back from the capitalists – in all their guises. Art... Continue reading

Stephen Pritchard

Cultural Commentary

Promoting creativity: towards a socialist cultural policy

16 January 2018 / 306

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt offers a critique of the section in the 2017 Labour Manifesto on Culture for All, and some suggestions for promoting creativity for everyone, to benefit our... Continue reading

Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt

Cultural Commentary

Listen to the Revolution: free ebook on 1917, art and culture

11 January 2018 / 322

‘With all your body, all your heart and all your mind, listen to the Revolution.’ said the poet Alexander Blok in 1918. As the centenary year of... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Cultural Commentary

What Do Marxists Have To Say About Art?

14 October 2017 / 381

Richard Clarke introduces some of the main Marxist insights into the nature and value of art, and its links to political and economic realities. Most Marxists would... Continue reading

mojohand

Cultural Commentary

The Power of Poetry in Dark Times

22 June 2017 / 387

Sandy Grant proposes that in times like these, it is poets who speak the most serious words of them all. Her article is followed by a poem by... Continue reading

Sandy Grant

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