CPBF: Government aims to weaken BBC

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom today (12 May) criticised the proposals in the White Paper on the BBC Continue reading →

Eyes Left: Marx Memorial Library series

An illustrated Marx House series looking at aspects of visual culture, the labour movement and the left Download programme Eyes Continue reading →

A defence of Stalinist art policy

by Mark Jones Critics of Stalinist policy towards the arts have difficulty admitting what is actually obvious: that despite the Continue reading →

Progressive Klezmer

March of the Jobless Corps from Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird’s album “Lost Causes” http://www.paintedbird.net available as Oriente Music’s RIEN Continue reading →

John Wight’s Dreams that die in Hollywood

  A young man arrives in Hollywood from Scotland looking to scale the heights as a screenwriter. He embarks on Continue reading →

Siqueiros mural to be unveiled – 80 years after it was painted

Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros was never one to shy away from controversy: a Stalinist, a member of the Mexican Continue reading →

Chile: Fighting for justice after 39 years

 by Kate Clark  Chilean folk singer Victor Jara would have been 80 tomorrow. But five days after the brutal 1973 Continue reading →

Christine Lindey on Cut and Paste: Estorick Gallery

Esoteric Gallery exhibition Cut and Paste Left: Design for a postcard for the All-Union Olympiad Moscow Spartakiada, Swimmer, 1928 by Gustav Klucis (1895-1944). Continue reading →