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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

World without borders Illustration: Cressida Knapp

Following Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore politics across media, film, stage, screen, music, sport and play – prioritising creative grassroots voices

World without borders Illustration: Cressida Knapp

  • Photo: Marxists Internet Archive

    A history of the Marxists Internet Archive

    The Marxists Internet Archive, an online home for radical history, has a fascinating history of its own, writes Jack Archie Stewart

  • A section of the exhibition showing an arrangement of monochrome portraits

    War Inna Babylon – review

    Tara Okeke explores an important exhibition that offers a compelling history of Black life in Britain through the lens of people, place and struggle

  • A woman with grey hair in a purple tee and grey jacket holds up a sign reading "STOP femicide" at a protest

    The lies we tell about men who kill

    Mental health crisis is often used to explain mass murder. The framing only detracts attention from tackling misogyny and male violence, argues Alex Birch

  • A person in red trousers and green top scales a high rock face outdoors

    Women of colour climbers are scaling new heights

    Competitive climbing made its Olympic debut in 2021. Hannah Zia reflects on her love of the sport – and considers barriers to participation facing other women of colour

  • Group of Afghan soldiers with one US soldier explaining something to them

    Drawing a line in Afghanistan

    The legacy of colonialism is still very real along borders arbitrarily drawn by the British and brutally contested to this day, writes Suchitra Vijayan

  • Two photos side by side. Dawn Foster sitting at a dinner smiling. A tribute writting on a white wall reads Dawn Foster Forever

    The fierce kindness of Dawn Foster

    Kimon Daltas pays tribute to our friend and comrade Dawn Foster

  • A promotional image for the 1936 People's Olympiad includes an illustration of three people with different colour skin and clothes, holding a banner reading 'Olimpiad Popular'

    The Socialist Olympics of 1936

    Radical workers’ sporting organisations and the 1936 People’s Olympiad illustrate the role of sport in fighting oppression, writes Uma Arruga i López

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