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It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Poetry

The Cry of the Poor

20 September 2021 / 292

Culture Matters is proud to announce the publication and launch of The Cry of the Poor: An Anthology of Radical Writing About Poverty, selected and edited by... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Sisterhood, Socialism, and Struggle: Poetry and the Work of Solidarity

14 September 2021 / 316

As I sit down to write this column the 40th anniversary of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp is fast approaching, with hundreds of women planning to... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

A Just Transition for Workers

12 September 2021 / 324

A Just Transition for Workers by Mick Drury ‘Get a job you wankers’ shouts the irate fist passing in his 4×4.Others wave and blow their horns. Outside... Continue reading

Mick Drury

Poetry

Anthropocaust by Rip Bulkeley Cassandra never smiled. Devastation,though future for others, was her constantreality. En route to the death campspeople were still together, had luggage,and could try... Continue reading

Rip Bulkeley

My body is not your soapbox

6 September 2021 / 298

My body is not your soapbox by Cheryl Vail you are not the arbiter of my curve appealthe constable ticketing the lack of a gap between thighsor... Continue reading

Cheryl Vail

Poetry

The Neo-colonialist Dreams

29 August 2021 / 324

The Neo-colonialist Dreams by Kevin Higgins Of moving the horn of Africa to the same time zone as Wisconsin. Of teaching Somalishow to properly appreciate cheese.Of surgeons... Continue reading

Kevin Higgins

Poetry

The daily resistance of rising: Bernie Crawford’s Living Water

24 August 2021 / 298

Jenny Farrell reviews Bernie Crawford’s new collection, Living Water, Chaffinch Press 2021. Bernie Crawford’s debut collection is a profound pleasure to read. It is informed and heightened... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Black Rapunzel

15 August 2021 / 291

Black Rapunzel by Jenny Mitchell Family gathers in these plaits,each parting like a grave for people forced to work the cane, colour of my scalp,sun beating on... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Take the Step

5 August 2021 / 321

Take the Step by Yanis Iqbal Tremblingly and caressingly, The sun spins a thread of morning From the depths and dregs of yesterday’s night, Aware that nothing... Continue reading

Yanis Iqbal

Poetry

Labouring the point – a colonial question

22 July 2021 / 333

Labouring the point – a colonial question by Alexis Lykiard The endless, questionable anti-Semitism fussIs media-stoked to fool the credulous and hoodwink us –All those presuming to... Continue reading