Culture

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

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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

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