Culture

Culture

• Luther – Marx’s theory of alienation or biblical redemption?

  

  Despite potential allusions to alienation under capitalism, Luther risks becoming a tired exploration of man vs evil, argues Sofie Mason

• The dialectics of Doctor Who

  

  Although a part of the establishment media, Doctor Who has always had a subversive thread running through it and today is no different, argues Sean Ledwith

• Tales of Two Londons - book review

  

  This collection of writings on London has some striking moments, but is lacking class politics, despite its stated theme, finds Tom Lock Griffiths

• Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell - book extract

  

  David Margolies gives an introduction to a new edition of writings by Christopher Caudwell 

• Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust: Joe Strummer remembered

  

  The punk pioneer and agitprop legend would have been 65 this week, this is what John Rees wrote when he died in 2002

• Break the wheel: the politics of Game of Thrones

  

  The wildly popular series has attracted a number of interesting attempts to analyse what it tells us about the contemporary state of capitalist culture

• Sound System: The Political Power of Music

  

  Dave Randall’s Sound System is a wide ranging and highly engaging discussion of politics and music that you just can’t put down, finds Sofie Mason

• For the many, not the few: Jeremy Corbyn and Percy Bysshe Shelley

  

  A look at the radical history of the poem the Labour leader quoted at Glastonbury

• 'There have always been exciting political artists'

  

  Dave Randall, activist, musician and writer, talks about the politics of music and his recently published book

• Trump up the volume

  

  Now is the time to get creative and infuse our music and culture with politics, argues Dave Randall

• Art review: ‘Exhibit A’

  

  Hugh Tisdale and Dan Murrell present a thoughtful blend of reflection, comment and protest, writes Sanjiv Sachdev

• Seeing red: the wisdom of John Berger

  

  Revolutionary writer and art critic John Berger has died, aged 90. Chris Nineham reflects on his life and work 

• Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective

  

  Tony McKenna’s cultural essays show the rich possibilities of Marxist analysis for a range of art and literature, argues Sean Ledwith

• Anarchy in the UK: iconoclasm’s greatest hit

  

  Forty years ago The Sex Pistols’ debut single was released. Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman remembers it well

• Culture matters to us all

  

  As libraries, galleries and museums face cuts across the board, Jonathan Maunders reports from the fight-back on the streets

• Bristol film festival celebrates 40 years of radical British cinema

  

  We spoke to Bristol Radical Film Festival organiser Steve Presence about the rare gems showcasing this year

• Greece: bread, education, freedom… and roses too

  

  Kevin Ovenden looks at street culture in this, his fifth dispatch from Greece, and argues that our survival in this crisis decade cannot be through bread alone – we need roses too