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The countryside, class and culture

1 June 2020 / 338

Stuart Cartland looks at the cultural and political representation of topography, at how landscape becomes mythscape, expressing class power and national identity. The painting is Mr and Mrs. Andrews, by... Continue reading

Stuart Cartland

Cultural Commentary

After the pandemic, culture should not be the same again

3 May 2020 / 320

Jack Newsinger continues the series, jointly published on Culture Matters and the Morning Star, on the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on culture, sketching out what needs... Continue reading

Jack Newsinger

Cultural Commentary

Common Ground: rebuilding community and co-operation after Covid-19

25 April 2020 / 312

Lyndsey Ayre reflects on common ground, coronavirus, and the values of the labour movement. The image is of a piece of embroidery by Melanie Kyles This must... Continue reading

Lyndsey Ayre

Cultural Commentary

Class and culture in the age of Coronavirus

20 April 2020 / 283

Dennis Broe traces the links between class and the coronavirus, and parallels in cultural works. Plus ca change…….. In many ways the rearrangement of life in the... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Cultural Commentary

A well-built wall, or other work of art: Alasdair Gray

13 April 2020 / 257

David Betteridge takes us along Glasgow’s Byres Road, enjoying several works of public art by the late Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December, 2019, the day after his... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Cultural Commentary

Socially engaged, internationalist and critical: the destruction of GDR culture since reunification

6 November 2019 / 291

John Green discusses the obliteration of GDR culture since reunification. The mosaic is in Eisenhüttenstadt, and is by Walter Womacka This month sees the 30th anniversary of... Continue reading

John Green

Cultural Commentary

Lively, incisive and erudite: Marxist Literary Criticism Today, by Barbara Foley

30 October 2019 / 422

Tony McKenna praises Marxist Literary Criticism Today (Pluto Press, £19.99) for its clarity, coherence, and insightfulness For the last few decades the world of ‘Marxist’ literary criticism... Continue reading

Tony McKenna

Cultural Commentary

Gandhi: ‘The worst form of violence is poverty’

7 October 2019 / 355

Jenny Farrell reviews Walk with Gandhi, Bóthar na Saoirse, by Gabriel Rosenstock (Author) and Masood Hussain (Illustrator) Bóthar na Saoirse (Road to Freedom) Walk with Gandhi is a beautiful... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Tackling class-based discrimination in British culture

17 September 2019 / 264

Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne argue that an incoming Labour government should make class discrimination a ‘protected characteristic’ in law. At the 2019 TUC Congress Jeremy Corbyn... Continue reading

Deirdre ONeill and Mike Wayne

Cultural Commentary

Culture by and for the working class – Inside Film and cultural democracy

28 June 2019 / 312

Deirdre O’Neill explains how the Inside Film project is implementing the principles of cultural democracy, by making a stand with the downtrodden, impoverished and silenced working class. Inside... Continue reading

Deirdre ONeill

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