Culture
Following Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore politics across media, film, stage, screen, music, sport and play – prioritising creative grassroots voices
Following Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore politics across media, film, stage, screen, music, sport and play – prioritising creative grassroots voices
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Obituary: John Pilger, 1939-2023
Taking an unashamedly left-wing perspective, Pilger’s emphasis was always on using painstaking research and analysis to tell the stories we need to hear, writes Dee Searle
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Family Abolition – review
O’Brien offers a radical and exciting argument for a liberative approach to care, writes Matt Seidel
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Art and survival in Argentina’s Memory Museum
As Argentina marks 40 years of democracy, Cecilia Sosa introduces the reflections of Alejandra Naftal, former director of ESMA, dictatorship survivor and lifetime witness
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Art in atrocity: Palestine and the destruction of culture
Palestinian artists are being silenced in Gaza and all around the world. Their work must continue speaking volumes, says Siobhán McGuirk
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Cinema for liberation: new visions from Palestine
Farrah Koutteineh surveys the work of women Palestinian filmmakers resisting Israeli efforts to bury the past and present of colonial violence
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Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach
Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people
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Lenin’s legacy: ordinary miracles and revolutionary ambition
As we approach the centenary of V I Lenin’s death, Lars T Lih looks at what his ‘intricate polemic’ in What is to Be Done? might offer today’s left
