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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

Burnsiana

23 January 2016 / 296

Burnsiana Scroll back from the cosmos,To inner space.The mind’s micro-structureNanoscientists mind-mappingThe brain’s hundred billion neurons,Its thousand trillion connections,Processing 0.1 quadrillion thoughts per second.Vastly more sophisticatedThan any computer.What... Continue reading

Rab Wilson

The Real Robert Burns

23 January 2016 / 630

My word you can’t know Burns unless you can hate the Lockharts and all the estimable bourgeoisand upper classes as he really did – the narrow gutted... Continue reading

Norrie Paton

Poetry

An Alternative Burns Supper

23 January 2016 / 298

David Betteridge presents two poems to help you enjoy an alternative Burns supper. At An Alternative Burns Supper His short life and his fertilitylift his perfection... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Making Better Rhymes: Chartist Poetry and Working Class Struggle

22 January 2016 / 306

In the first of a series of articles on Chartist poetry and working class struggle, Dr. Mike Sanders traces the background to its development. Andy Croft in... Continue reading

Mike Sanders

Poetry

Everything Must Go

14 January 2016 / 301

On Tuesday 15th December, 2015 Christie’s Auction House held a sale of property that had belonged to the late British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The sale realised... Continue reading

Rab Wilson

Prickling the politics of permanent austerity with political-polemical poetry

23 December 2015 / 455

Alan Morrison surveys the recent ‘mushrooming depth-charge’ of political poetry in various anthologies, welcomes the rise of radical publishers, and introduces his new website, Militant Thistles. Since... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Whitechapel

23 December 2015 / 318

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Michael Rosen

Poetry

Muslims Say Sorry! The poetry of Amir Darwish

14 December 2015 / 275

Wars rage in the Middle East. The US and its allies pursue their policies of economic and military aggression, regime change, and the deliberate fomenting of chaos,... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

Little Mosque Poems

14 December 2015 / 277

Little Mosque PoemsBy Mohja Kahf In my little mosquethere is no room for me to pray.I am turned away faithfullyfive times a day My little mosque:so meagrein... Continue reading

Mohja Kahf

Poetry

A Strong and Stiffly Worded Letter Should Do the Trick

9 December 2015 / 333

Dear war makers and war takers, twitchy button pushers and mushroom cloud worshippers,bomb botherers and gun polishers,chemical weapon wielders and coup-cooers,battle cry criers and army gatherers,bullet loaders... Continue reading