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I will not cease from mental fight<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Till we have built Jerusalem<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n In England’s green and pleasant land.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n – William Blake<\/span><\/p>\n You’ll find recent material on this Home<\/strong> page, and every piece sent in since our launch a couple of years ago is available under the relevant topic sections in the Arts<\/strong> and Culture Hubs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Everything on Culture Matters<\/strong> \u2013 articles, poems, images, editorial and technical support \u2013 has been contributed freely.\u00a0We are a registered co-operative, rooted in the labour movement, and apart from managing this website we publish books, run Arts Awards in partnership with trade unions<\/span>. If you would like to help with this work, please visit Shop & Support<\/strong>. You’re also welcome to contribute articles, essays, poems and artworks to info@culturematters.org.uk<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n We hope you enjoy browsing the site, and that you find it entertaining, enlightening and inspiring. Culture Matters!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to Culture Matters I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England’s green…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":12106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Culture Matters<\/strong> is part of our cultural struggle or \u2018mental fight\u2019 against class divisions, to achieve a cultural commons in a socialist society \u2013 a new Jerusalem, as William Blake called it, and not only in England, but across the world. As you can see from the About Us<\/strong> section, <\/span>we aim to promote a progressive political approach to the arts and all other cultural activities.<\/span><\/h3>\n