Culture
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport – prioritising the grassroots voices democratising creative channels of communication.
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport – prioritising the grassroots voices democratising creative channels of communication.
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Thatcher: You’ve got to fight! For the left! To party!
Commentators frame Thatcher ‘death parties’ as tasteless bandwagon-jumping events. Have some imagination, writes Siobhán McGuirk: this is an iconoclastic moment
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Rosa Luxemburg’s capital ideas
Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
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Reading Rosa: An interview with Peter Hudis
Peter Hudis, editor of the newly published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, speaks to Red Pepper
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John Pilger: the media war you don’t see
Pablo Navarrete interviews renown investigative journalist John Pilger ahead of the release of his new film, The War You Don’t See
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Beyond Berlusconi
Populist, authoritarian, xenophobic and sustained in office by a corrupt electoral system – but Silvio Berlusconi’s government isn’t the only one in Europe that can be described this way
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My activist Second Life
Virtual activism and protest are not geeky or trivial, argues Neil Scott. These political communications tools are vital for the modern left
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Radical Motown
The pioneering black music label, Tamla Motown, marks its 50th anniversary in 2009. Fiona Osler assesses its impact
