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Paul Robeson: activist, communist and spokesperson for the oppressed of the earth

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A people's algorithm? Facebook and the rise of surveillance capitalism

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Poetry on the Picket Line: real people and real poetry in the real world

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John Heartfield: satirist, anti-fascist and fearless communist

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  • Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2018
    Culture Matters is pleased to announce that the second Bread and Roses Poetry Award, sponsored by Unite, is now open for entries. It is part of our mission to promote a socialist approach to culture, by creating new opportunities for working class people to write poetry, and encourage poets to focus on themes which are meaningful to working class people and communities. Rules and guidelines for submissions are in the article in the Poetry section. Copies of the Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2017, with an introduction by Len McCluskey, are available to buy in Shop and Support/Our Publications.
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  • Eye of the Needle
    Eye of the Needle Poetry
    Written by Ira Lightman
    Eye of the Needle by Ira Lightman Camels shouldn't vote for death.They needn't die at Christmas.On the 25th, Christ's birthis the defeat of Adam's cursewhich was death. The rich make human life ridiculous and cold on our visit to Bath.We particularly notice,much more than in the North East, in Bath…
  • These Hands
    These Hands Poetry
    Written by Jon Tait
    Jon Tait has sent in this prosepoem in response to The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, by Martin Hayes. These Hands by Jon Tait The lines of hands get blackened by oil and dirt and produce a map of work, of chipped nails and grime and honest graft, of…
  • Poetry on the Picket Line: real people and real poetry in the real world
    Poetry on the Picket Line: real people and real poetry in the real world Poetry
    Written by Chip Grim
    Chip Hamer introduces the squad of activist poets which supports striking workers. Poetry on the Picket Line sounds a little unlikely, but it works: a squad of writers prepared to turn up on picket lines and read poetry. Something a little different and it usually goes down pretty well. It…
  • Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award
    Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award Music
    Written by Chris Guiton
    The Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award was launched by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Culture Matters in November 2017. It closed in February 2018. The aim of the new Award was to encourage songwriters and spoken word performers to write material meaningful to working class people…
  • Karl Marx, tickled and honoured
    Karl Marx, tickled and honoured Visual Arts
    Written by John Green
    John Green introduces some Karl Marx bicentenary cartoons and caricatures. 5 May 2018 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx. To commemorate this the Ken Sprague Fund organised an international cartoon and caricature competition which drew over 150 entries from artists around the world. Ken Sprague was one…
  • Crime in a Bi-Polar World: Good and Evil, Poor and Rich in the Globalized Economy
    Crime in a Bi-Polar World: Good and Evil, Poor and Rich in the Globalized Economy Fiction
    Written by Dennis Broe
    Dennis Broe reports on the crime novelists' festival at Quais du Polar in Lyon, France. This is Bro on the World Literary Beat and I’ve just come back from this year’s Quais du Polar in Lyon France, one of the world’s largest gathering of crime novelists – in France crime novels…
  • Doodgeskiet: In memory of Chris Hani
    Doodgeskiet: In memory of Chris Hani Poetry
    Written by Andy Croft
    It is twenty-five years this month since the assassination of Chris Hani, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Hani was also Mandela’s de facto deputy; his murder opened the way to the disappointments and betrayals of Thabo Mbeki and Joseph…
  • John Heartfield: satirist, anti-fascist and fearless communist
    John Heartfield: satirist, anti-fascist and fearless communist Visual Arts
    Written by Jenny Farrell
    Jenny Farrell salutes John Heartfield, the creator of political photomontage, who died fifty years ago. John Heartfield is one of the most important European artists. He works in a field which he created himself, the field of photomontage. Through this new form of art, he exercises social criticism. Steadfastly on…
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  • A people's algorithm? Facebook and the rise of surveillance capitalism
    A people's algorithm? Facebook and the rise of surveillance capitalism TV, internet and other media
    Written by Tom Walker
    Tom Walker discusses how corporate profiteers are capturing a vital social resource - information about ourselves. How can we de-commodify our everyday lives and even our resistance? ‘You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies,’ as Facebook movie The Social Network put it. Everyone the social…
  • Willie Young’s elbows have been sawn off
    Willie Young’s elbows have been sawn off Sport
    Written by Martin Hayes
    Willie Young’s elbows have been sawn off by Martin Hayes 12 years old and out the station onto Gillespie Road it’s only 40 minutes before kick-off and no tickets in our pockets yetbut that was how it was back then you didn’t need to have saved for over 5 months…
  • Their walls are our stones
    Their walls are our stones Cultural Commentary
    Written by Mike Quille
    What would a radical, socialist culture policy look like? Last September I reported on The World Transformed festival, organised by Momentum alongside the Labour Party conference in Brighton. It included several workshops on culture, looking at what the elements of a radical culture policy might be, building on the commitments…
  • Reading Marx
    Reading Marx Cultural Commentary
    Written by David Betteridge
    David Betteridge gives a personal account of reading Marx, with drawings by Bob Starrett. Fifty years ago, when I was training to be a teacher at Neville’s Cross College of Education in Durham, I had the good fortune to be tutored in Sociology and supervised on school practice by Maurice…
  • The Bleeding Edge
    The Bleeding Edge Science & Technology
    Written by Richard Clarke
    Richard Clarke reviews The Bleeding Edge, by Bob Hughes, New Internationalist 2016 A discussion paper published by the (left-leaning) Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) at the end of last year argues that automation ‘risks reproducing and amplifying existing inequalities within the economy.’ Some 44% of all jobs, (involving almost…
  • Marx and culture
    Marx and culture Cultural Commentary
    Written by John Storey
    Professor John Storey outlines Marx and Engels' theoretical contributions to cultural theory. Although Karl Marx did not have a fully developed theory of culture, it is possible to discover the basis of one in his understanding of history and politics. What this understanding points to is the insistence that if…
  • Why Christianity matters to socialism
    Why Christianity matters to socialism Religion
    Written by James Crossley
    James Crossley argues for the importance of the radical Christian tradition as an important resource for the revolutionary transformation of the world.  On becoming leader of the Labour Party in September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn envisaged living a society “where we don’t pass by on the other side of those people…
  • Marxism and religion
    Marxism and religion Religion
    Written by Richard Clarke
    Richard Clarke outlines how religion, like any other cultural activity, is capable of both promoting political and social liberation, and being manipulated and controlled by ruling classes who attempt – and very often succeed – in turning it into a force for conservatism. Most Marxists would say that it is…
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  • The arts are just a part of the weapons of life. Art can make us see and feel reality and help change that reality. Art is revelation. Art is hard work. Art is part of protest.
    Jayne Cortez
  • Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
    Bertolt Brecht
  • The most precious thing in the sharp ebb and flow of the revolutionary waves is the proletariat's spiritual growth.
    Rosa Luxemburg Letters from Prison
  • The individual will reach full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art,
    Che Guevara Socialism and Man in Cuba
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