Whose Name? by Mike Jenkins Whose name on the bomb?Is it yours or is it mine?Is it the men & women on the lines?The factory owner or... Continue reading
Mike Jenkins
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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
Mike Jenkins 
1978 by Stephen Paul Wren We sing Grease songs, make daisy chains.I grasp nettles, make my hands sore.Teresa finds Mrs Dixon.The trees are young and fit and... Continue reading
Stephen Paul Wren 
God is not the state of Israel by Alan McGuire He is not the bombs that dropon sleeping childrenprisoners being starved of hopewomen hoping for rain and... Continue reading
Alan McGuire 
Fran Lock excoriates the Tories and presents some great poems. Image above: Soldiers Leave the Armed Forces, by Chad McCail I cannot tell a lie, I began... Continue reading
Fran Lock
the columnists’ hypotheticals by Steve Pottinger what if doormats were suddenly sentient?what if elephants nested in trees?what if your gran was a Toblerone?what if locomotives had knees?... Continue reading
Steve Pottinger 
Fred Voss, the worker-poet from Long Beach, California, has sent us the poem below, with the following message: Here’s a poem I wrote this morning, I hope you... Continue reading
Fred Voss 
the last ex-pat in Costa Del Sol turns his thoughts homeward with apologies to Leonard Cohen by Mark Cassidy, with image above by Martin Gollan Come, my... Continue reading
Mark Cassidy 
Jim Aitken reviews The Orgreave Stations by William Hershaw, illustrated by Les McConnell, some of whose images in the book accompany this review ‘The Orgreave Stations’ , published... Continue reading
Jim Aitken 
the drone by Martin Hayes first it came in the idea of a big balloonthe way the wind could pick it upmove it across the battlefieldbefore its... Continue reading
Martin Hayes 
Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union! – TUC Sinking in the rain by Stuart McFarlane I wonder, now, if Rishimight rue the day,... Continue reading
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