Culture matters.<\/strong> The arts (films, plays, paintings, music etc.) and culture are liberating. They please the senses, stimulate the mind, arouse emotions, and feed the soul.<\/p>\r\n Culture matters.<\/strong> The arts and culture are linked to politics in many ways, good and bad. In a capitalist market economy, the drive for profit, and dominant ways of thinking and feeling, condition and constrain how they are created and enjoyed.<\/p>\r\n Culture matters.<\/strong> The arts and culture can resist, oppose and overcome constraint, alienation and oppression. They can promote awareness, arouse indignation, inspire creativity and imagination, and so help us 'build Jerusalem'.<\/p>\r\n Culture matters.<\/strong> The arts and culture generally are a vital part of the struggle, the 'mental fight' as Blake puts it, to build a more democratic, equal, socialist society.<\/p>\r\n The website explores these topics of art, culture and progressive politics, in various ways.<\/p>\r\n We aim to:<\/p>\r\n\r\n