Culture
Austerity starves our culture
16 May 2019 Museums – and museum workers – have been hit hard by austerity policies and cuts. Clara Paillard outlines some of the key battlegrounds and considers what an alternative cultural policy might look like
Chav Solidarity
24 April 2019 Ewa Jasiewicz reviews the new book by D Hunter
Higher! Further! Faster! More!
19 March 2019 Captain Marvel is Marvel's first blockbuster with a female lead. Miriam Kent asks what we should make of it all these female superheroes taking over the big screen.
Rout and rebellion
15 January 2019 Until the bicentenary neared, generating a successful campaign for a memorial, Peterloo had little purchase on popular memory, writes Tom Hazeldine. Mike Leigh’s new film will help change that.
Review: Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women
31 December 2018 Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women by Silvia Federici, reviewed by Jessica White
Love, power and the politics of survival in Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’
12 October 2018 Ewa Jasiewicz explores the complex interplay of class and gender in Pawlikowski's stunning new film.
‘Do not resign, the mandem need you’: The story of #grime4corbyn
5 June 2018 In April 2017, Theresa May called a snap general election to destroy a crisis-hit Labour Party. The grime scene had other ideas. An extract from 'Inner City Pressure' by Dan Hancox
‘Reforming has done nothing. That’s why I’m an anarchist.’ An interview with Benjamin Zephaniah
10 April 2018 Benjamin Zephaniah speaks to Anu Shukla about poetry, policing, the ongoing fight against racism.
“Utopia is all around us”
7 April 2018 Jonny Gordon-Farleigh of STIR magazine talks to Ruth Potts about the power of utopian thinking in an age of crisis.
It’s time for a cultural renewal of the left
27 January 2018 Andrew Dolan writes that we need to integrate art, music, films and poetry into our movement, creating spaces where political ideas are given further room to breathe.
A master-work of graphic satire
22 December 2017 American Jewish cartoonist Eli Valley’s comic commentary on America, the US Jewish diaspora and Israel is nothing if not near the knuckle, Richard Kuper writes
Where did it all go wrong, Morrissey?
2 December 2017 He was once a radical icon, but now he's a mouthpiece for racism and nationalism. Time to get off stage, writes Michael Calderbank
The first Brexit documentary shows a Britain at war with itself
3 November 2017 Ethan Race reviews Timothy Kelly's hard-hitting documentary 'Brexitannia'
Review: No Is Not Enough
6 October 2017 Samir Dathi reviews No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics, by Naomi Klein
Marx’s Capital at 150: an invitation to history
30 September 2017 Radhika Desai says Capital by Karl Marx is still an essential read on the 150th anniversary of its publication
Acid Corbynism’s next steps: building a socialist dance culture
24 September 2017 Matt Phull and Will Stronge share more thoughts about the postcapitalist potential of the Acid Corbynist project
Working class theatre: Save Our Steel takes the stage
18 September 2017 A new play inspired by Port Talbot’s ‘Save Our Steel’ campaign asks questions about the working class leaders of today. Adam Johannes talks to co-director Rhiannon White about the project, the people and the politics behind it
Art the Arms Fair: making art not war
13 September 2017 Amy Corcoran on organising artistic resistance to the weapons dealers’ London showcase
Real stories with real people: the films of Sanjay Kak
7 September 2017 Dipesh Pandya speaks to documentary film-maker Sanjay Kak, who for 30 years has been working outside the mainstream to tell a story rooted in the struggles of those excluded by India’s militarism and its narrative of neoliberal growth
What is Acid Corbynism?
2 September 2017 Jeremy Gilbert on how radical Labour politics can be inspired by the utopianism of the counterculture
Imagining a future free of oppression
25 August 2017 Writer, artist and organiser Ama Josephine Budge says holding on to our imagination of tomorrow helps create a different understanding today
A musical fightback against school arts cuts
15 August 2017 Elliot Clay on why his new musical turns the spotlight on the damage austerity has done to arts education, through the story of one school band's battle
Neoliberalism: the break-up tour
14 August 2017 Sarah Woods and Andrew Simms ask why, given the trail of destruction it has left, we are still dancing to the neoliberal tune
Tory Glastonbury? Money can’t buy you cultural relevance
7 August 2017 Adam Peggs on why the left has more fun
A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
2 August 2017 A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder, by Grace A Musila, reviewed by Allen Oarbrook
Everything you know about Ebola is wrong
31 July 2017 Vicky Crowcroft reviews Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic, by Paul Richards
Interview: Queer British Art
27 July 2017 James O'Nions talks to author Alex Pilcher about the Tate’s Queer British Art exhibition and her book A Queer Little History of Art
Eddie Chambers: Black artists and the DIY aesthetic
20 July 2017 Eddie Chambers, artist and art historian, speaks to Ashish Ghadiali about the cultural strategies that he, as founder of the Black Art Group, helped to define in the 1980s
In pictures: designing for change
2 February 2017 Sana Iqbal, the designer behind the identity of The World Transformed festival and the accompanying cover of Red Pepper, talks about the importance of good design
Podemos: In the Name of the People
21 December 2016 'The emergence as a potential party of government is testament both to the richness of Spanish radical culture and the inventiveness of activists such as Errejón' - Jacob Mukherjee reviews Errejón and Mouffe's latest release
Survival Shake! – creative ways to resist the system
21 December 2016 Social justice campaigner Sakina Sheikh describes a project to embolden young people through the arts
Book Review: The EU: an Obituary
12 December 2016 Tim Holmes takes a look at John Gillingham's polemical history of the EU
Book Review: The End of Jewish Modernity
9 December 2016 Author Daniel Lazar reviews Enzo Traverso's The End of Jewish Modernity
Book review: Angry White People: Coming Face to Face With the British Far-Right
7 December 2016 Hilary Aked gets close up with the British far right in Hsiao-Hung Pai's latest release
Book Review: The Day the Music Died – a Memoir
5 December 2016 Sheila Rowbotham reviews the memoirs of BBC director and producer, Tony Garnett.
Power Games: A Political History
5 December 2016 Malcolm Maclean reviews Jules Boykoff's Power Games: A Political History
Book Review: Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: from liberation to the post-gay
3 December 2016 Aiming to re-evaluate the radicalism and efficacy of queer counterculture and rebellion - April Park takes us through David Alderson's new work.
Book Review: Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
2 December 2016 'In spite of the odds Corbyn is still standing' - Alex Doherty reviews Seymour's analysis of the rise of Corbyn
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
1 December 2016 'A small manifesto for black liberation through socialist revolution' - Graham Campbell reviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's 'From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation'
The Fashion Revolution: Turn to the left
30 November 2016 Bryony Moore profiles Stitched Up, a non-profit group reimagining the future of fashion
The abolition of Art History A-Level will exacerbate social inequality
29 November 2016 This is a massive blow to the rights of ordinary kids to have the same opportunities as their more privileged peers. Danielle Child reports.
Mustang film review: Three fingers to Erdogan
22 November 2016 Laura Nicholson reviews Mustang, Deniz Gamze Erguven’s unashamedly feminist film critique of Turkey’s creeping conservatism
The Confession – a survivor’s story
16 November 2016 Robert Rae reviews a new film about former Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg
Edinburgh film festival reviewed
16 November 2016 Robert Rae reports from the Edinburgh film festival
The new politics of art
16 November 2016 Nina Power calls for an assertion of true human wealth through shared resources, knowledge, and art – while Jessie Hoskin and Sasha Josette explain how The World Transformed festival will respond to this call
Book Review: Swimming with Sharks: My journey into the world of the bankers
10 November 2016 Jenny Nelson reviews Luyendiks analysis of the City – the ‘time bomb at the heart of our society’.
Book Review: My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency
8 November 2016 'A symptom of a deep sickness in the American political system’ - John Brissenden reviews Doug Henwood's take on the presidential nominee.
Cartooning capitalism – a look back at American radicalism
2 November 2016 Michael Mark Cohen revives political art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that remains equally relevant today
Increasing anti-semitism or disappearing Palestine?
16 October 2016 The left’s Jewish problem, Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and anti-semitism by Dave Rich, reviewed by Paul Kelemen
Book review: Place is the Passion by Bill Williamson
9 September 2016 Folk singer Leon Rosselson reviews a book to help ordinary people understand the Israel / Palestine conflict.
