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A statue in verse for Mary Burns, Engels’s partner

24 October 2020 / 299

Jenny Farrell writes about Mary and Lizzie Burns. Friedrich Engels, whose 200th birthday falls 28 November 2020, had a very personal connection with Ireland. The moment he... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Giving a voice to the voiceless: Azadi, by Arundhati Roy

2 October 2020 / 348

Razia Parveen reviews Arundhati’s new book of essays This is a hugely stimulating collection of nine essays of varying length which focus on issues related to the... Continue reading

Razia Parveen

Cultural Commentary

Culture, class and civilisation

16 September 2020 / 398

Dave Lordan continues his series on culture, class and civilisation About 10,000 years ago, after 3.6 million years of the Stone Age, humanity began to slowly and... Continue reading

Dave Lordan

Cultural Commentary

Narrow Streets: publishing and the class conundrum

10 September 2020 / 317

Lyndsey Ayre writes about the class problem in publishing On the inside cover of the 2019 edition of Tove Ditlevsen’s Childhood – the first of her autobiographical... Continue reading

Lyndsey Ayre

Cultural Commentary

The Necessity of Green

24 August 2020 / 499

David Betteridge writes critically and creatively about the artwork above, Nature writing, Bertolt Brecht, and eco-communism. The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Cultural Commentary

Rethinking the kind of culture we want

16 August 2020 / 361

Theresa Easton, Northern Organiser for Artists’ Union England, shows how the Covid crisis should be tackled by applying the principles of cultural democracy. The image above is... Continue reading

Theresa Easton

Cultural Commentary

Poetry and class in a time of cholera

27 July 2020 / 313

Fran Lock writes about poetry and class, in the latest in the series of jointly published Morning Star/Culture Matters articles on the effects of the pandemic on... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Cultural Commentary

Creativity and Class

17 July 2020 / 334

Dave Lordan, in the first of a three part series, explores creativity, the arts and cultural activities before the development of class-based societies. Poetry is indispensable –... Continue reading

Dave Lordan

Cultural Commentary

Towards Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art

6 July 2020 / 408

Sean Ledwith reviews Tony McKenna’s latest book, Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art This is the third of Tony McKenna’s collections of essays in which... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Cultural Commentary

A History of Ireland in 100 Words

9 June 2020 / 322

Luke Callinan reviews A History of Ireland in 100 Words by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Gregory Toner, Royal Irish Academy, 320 pp, €19.99, ISBN: 9781911479185.... Continue reading

Luke Callinan

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