On the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, Jenny Farrell introduces Brecht’s poetic re-writing of the Communist Manifesto, with its ‘spectre of communism, which continues to be a threat to the rulers and a friend to the damned of the earth.’ In February 1848, Marx and Engels…

The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alain Badiou by Chris Norris We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy – the form of state suited to capitalism – and to the inevitable and 'natural'…

stitching this Universe together by Martin Hayes Sadiq wants to stay a part of this control room, a partof this bunch of chained cynical indebted men who continually take the piss out of his haircuts his shoes and his love lifewho never cut him any slack whenever he makes a…

 The Divided Self by Keith Armstrong 'When'er my muse does on me glance, I jingle at her.' (Robert Burns). Such an eye in a human head,from the toothless babyto the toothless man,the Edinburgh wyndsbleed whisky.Through all the Daft Days,we drink and greein the local howffs,dancing downBread Street.Like burns with Burnsthese…