100 years on: a very short history of the Russian Revolution told in 10 objects
Celebrating the cultural achievements of the early Russian revolution which had at its centre a commitment to the politics of socialism.
Browsing: Writing
Reflections on Trump’s Muslim ban and the massacre that never was
Have we entered a cultural and political environment in which a 21st century fascism is possible?
Don’t dread old age. I’m 94, and I won’t spend my last years in fear of the Tories
Brexit is dragging Britain towards one of the great self-inflicted wounds in its history
It’s a mind-boggling combination of malice, idiocy, prejudice, magical thinking and epic incompetence, says Matt Carr.
The political ascendancy of bumptious, over privileged hooligan Boris Johnson
Colin Gibson reviews Brexit Boris: From Mayor to Nightmare, which lays bare the sordid story of Britain’s floppy-haired ‘national treasure’.
Is Donald Trump a fascist who threatens the end of civilisation as we know it?
Trump’s conception of American power is not very different from many politicians before him, says Matt Carr.
American Porn by Heathcote Williams
Heathcote Williams’ new book shows how a nation steeped in violence and greed reached its apotheosis in President Donald Trump.
How the fashion industry is a stitch up that swindles us all
Tansy Hoskins strips away the apparel trade’s decorative exterior and then dynamites the foundations of the fashion trade.
2016: That was the year that was of living fearfully
2016 will go down in history as a watershed year when the old political establishment was rejected by an unprecedented electoral insurgency that was dominated by the right and extreme right.
20 Feb 2017 One day without migrants: mass protest to show solidarity and unity
Join the UK national protest ONE DAY WITHOUT US 20/02 to help burst the poisonous racist bubble that Brexit has created.
Happy Thanksgiving, USA: born out of war 400 years ago, at war endlessly ever since
For most Americans today, how can you be thankful when you are poor or sick in a society without social justice?
Brexit knuckle-dragging troglodytes determined to transform the UK into a racist swamp
The great tragedy of our country is that it is not only responding to knuckle-draggers, says Matt Carr, it is actually being led by them.
Is more ‘ethical’ shopping the way to tame corporate greed and the inequalities of capitalism?
Taking the fashion industry as her example, Tansy Hoskins disputes the claim that corporate power can be tamed by consumer spending.
Bob Dylan: fake, cultural thief, shameless and now… Nobel Prize winner
Heathcote Williams doesn’t join the mountain of praise heaped on Bob Dylan for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art by Mike Marqusee
Dylan’s songs of the sixties offer both a bracing protest against enduring enemies and a salutary critique of some of our own worst habits.
