Culture

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

  • Chilean president Salvador Allende at the United Nations in New York

    Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet

    Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup

  • A man holding up a photograph of Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Saville together with the words 'fiends reunited' below

    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

  • A black and white photograph of Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg’s capital ideas

    Ingo Scmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital

  • A black and white photograph of Rosa Luxemburg delivering a speech to a crowd

    Reading Rosa: An interview with Peter Hudis

    Peter Hudis, editor of the newly published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, speaks to Red Pepper

  • A face with eyes covered by a newspaper text, with the words printed to the right: 'The War You Don't See'

    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

  • Italiano: Silvio Berlusconi al Grand Hotel Trento per la campagna elettorale delle elezioni provinciali. Credit: Niccolò Caranti

    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

  • On a green virtual background, avatars gather together in seated protest

    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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