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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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Troublemaking – review
Through analysing varied unionisation campaigns, Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock chart a path for workplace democracy and meaningful class struggle, says Laura Hone
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Key words: Dialectics
Tom Whyman explains Marx’s influential theory of ‘dialectical materialism’ which has its roots in Hegel and takes history to be driven by conflict
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When the people made television: the BBC’s Community Programme Unit
An exhibition revisiting a radically different, democratic approach to programming in the 1970s prompts Andrew Dolan to consider whether another BBC is still imaginable today
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Greater than the Sum of Our Parts – review
Nada Elia’s book touches on a number of interesting themes, but fails to shift its focus from the academy to grassroots organising, argues Jeanine Hourani
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Monopolywood: Why the Paramount accords should not be repealed
Repealing the Paramount accords could set independent cinema back, writes Vaughn Joy
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Abolition Revolution – review
Abolition Revolution looks to a future free of the punitive systems that permeate British society, argues Shahed Ezaydi
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The Full Monty at 25
A quarter of a century after its release, The Full Monty still resonates today. Alex Green revisits a working-class story told with compassion and humour
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