James Connolly Festival 2019

This years Connolly Festival kicks of this coming Tuesday 7th May with a new development in the festival programme.   The Continue reading →

CWU and Culture Matters: Hear the spoken word

Chris Guiton from Culture Matters reports The Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Culture Matters are pleased to announce a new Continue reading →

World War One at the Edinburgh Festival

Mike Quille discusses World War One themes at the Edinburgh Festival I Am, International Festival * The War, International Festival Continue reading →

Edinburgh Festival reviewed by Mike Quille

Although there are literally thousands of shows on during the festival season in Edinburgh, many of the plays, films and Continue reading →

Art from the Heart

Mike Quille on the ‘Shafts of Light’ exhibition of mining art, Bowes Museum, Co. Durham.          Deep Continue reading →

Two poems by Nazim Hikmet

Last Will and Testament by Nazim Hikmet, April 27, 1953 Comrades, if I don’t live to see the day -I Continue reading →

Core skills or creativity

Gove’s baccalaureate bid has sharpened an old controversy, argues Nick Wright  The artist and the actor had hard words for Continue reading →

ZZ on Sixto and the Queen of Versailles

by Zoltan Zigedy  Seventy-five years ago, Christopher Caudwell’s Studies in a Dying Culture was published posthumously. Caudwell, a brilliant young British Communist Continue reading →