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This is the Dawning of the Age of Plutocracy

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Rise of the Right Wing Poetry
Written by Gabriel Rosenstock

Rise of the Right Wing by Gabriel Rosenstock, with image above by Peeter Allik Men wake up(do they?)look in the mirrorbleary eyedask themselves(in various languages)what happened?cough up a little phlegmis this a dreama nightmare?people are shouting again on the streetswhat's going on?how did this happen?what did I doto nip things…
This is the Dawning of the Age of Plutocracy Visual Arts
Written by Scott Alsworth

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Look to the Wisdom of the World, Not to Tate and Trumpish Co. Poetry
Written by Anne Irwin

Look to the Wisdom of the World, Not to Tate and Trumpish Co. by Anne Irwin The world comes tumbling down When sense is toppled from its crownBy tic-toc gasúns who give lip To the common citizenship,Their insecurities fed with hate By their misogynistic matesWhose manipulation is so smartIt persuades…
What Three Words Poetry
Written by Marilyn Longstaff

What Three Words by Marilyn Longstaff A clever app pinpointing a precise location,useful, simple, when it works: if you understand,if there’s a decent signal. what3wordssaw we oldies lost in deepest Suffolk. Had to relyon chancing upon a passer-bywho knew where we were going. What damage can be done by just…
destroying angel Poetry
Written by Fran Lock

destroying angel by Fran Lock this delicate supremacist, our cipher. tonightunder the fractioned moon, we wait. we arewaiting. for the angel, rankly warriored outof soft ground. or the long, expectant trenchof the year. an angel, yes, the melting stenchof him. how the mouth is swollen with moistpique, and the spade…
Farewell to Smokestack Books Poetry
Written by Culture Matters

John Green talks to Andy Croft about the achievements of Smokestack Books, in an article from the Morning Star Poetry is the most democratic form of literary expression — it only takes a pencil, a scrap of paper and/or a voice to create a poem of a few lines or…
When the Council owns the building you live in Poetry
Written by Jennifer Johnson

When the Council owns the building you live in by Jennifer Johnson When the Council owns the building you live inyou may find that the front is detaching itself from the back,the underpinning needed too expensive for that Council.You may find that large cracks are continually monitoredbut the delays in…
Four poems from 'What Rough Beast' Poetry
Written by Culture Matters

The following four poems are taken from the What Rough Beast anthology of poems about Trump and Trumpism, available to download here. Image above: Rise Up My Pretties, by Martin Gollan, who also made the drawings below. Trumpet So bashed from its last fall I can’t removethe mouthpiece. A mouthpiece…

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Ramping up the cultural struggle: CPB conference on class and culture Cultural Commentary
Written by Culture Matters

Around 60 people gathered last Saturday in Barnsley for the Communist Party’s first-ever conference on culture. Called ‘Class and Culture’, the conference was held in the inspiring surroundings of the NUM headquarters in Barnsley, and was chaired by Ron Brown, co-convenor of the Party’s Culture Commission. The aim of the…
Boycott of Israeli cultural institutions Cultural Commentary
Written by Culture Matters

More than 1,000 authors have launched a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people, and Culture Matters supports the boycott. These writers and authors have pledged to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. The letter (published below) represents the largest commitment to cultural boycott ever made by…
Brewing & Pubs: Notes from the first 100 days of the Labour government Eating & Drinking
Written by Keith Flett

Brewing & Pubs. Notes from the first 100 days While there was nothing in the formal Labour election manifesto, Labour had made it clear beforehand that there was an understanding of the issues faced by craft brewers and the hospitality industry. Starmer visited a micro-brewery in Camden Town, for example.…
Fair Play Cabaret: shows with a social and political purpose Cultural Commentary
Written by Culture Matters

Fair Play Cabaret With the backing of Equity, a cultural campaign is being launched which is centred around an ongoing series of events across the country. They are attempts, both onstage and offstage, to address aspects of social and cultural changes which have been so detrimental to working people during…
'A deep, poetic beauty': Review of 'This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land' by Charlie Hill Cultural Commentary
Written by Culture Matters

Bobby Seal from the Psychogeographic Review reviews This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land by Charlie Hill I had for some time believed the key to effective writing was to concentrate on the surface of things. Record them faithfully, and they’d do the work for you. After all, the world…
Cultural heritage and cultural democracy Cultural Commentary
Written by Richard Penderyn

Richard Penderyn outlines some of the current problems in the heritage industry, and some ways of introducing cultural democracy Heritage and the historic environment in the UK is rich. It spans millennia and includes amazing sites, from Stonehenge to Caernarfon Castle and from Orkney to Osborne House. Such sites include…
What's the source of alienation? Jim Aitken reviews 'Soil and Soul' by Alistair McIntosh Cultural Commentary
Written by Jim Aitken

Soil and Soul was first published in 2001 and it was a thoroughly well-received book. In his Foreword to it, George Monbiot described it as ‘a ground-breaking book.’ The plaudits that McIntosh was given were indeed wholly justified and it seems that Monbiot was the most perceptive of all McIntosh’s…
Class and Culture: Conference and Social Cultural Commentary
Written by Culture Matters

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