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RIP Lux

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This poem was commissioned by Culture Matters as an act of solidarity with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (above) who has recently suffered racist abuse for having the audacity to play Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet'. See here..... The True Story of a Sable Maid’s Appearance in the 18th Century by Jenny Mitchell…
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Ghazal: no surviving family by Janet Hatherley It’s a new acronym, the medic says,WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. The three-year-old in her rescuer’s arms, chatters, glances at the sky, eyes wild, no surviving family. One orange a day from their only tree,no other food, no stockpiles. No surviving family.…
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This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th season, was marked by the intrusion into the spine of the novels by the real-world problems and catastrophes going on around the festival.…
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93n0c1d3 by Michal Lowkain a friend from my youthis a zionisthe loves buildingidf modelsincluding bulldozers the originals are used to destroy palestinian homes and hopes and lives i asked himis there a figurine ofrachel corrie attached?no it wasn’tno little houses orlittle palestinians either but you can always use your genocidal…
'Bondage' and 'Captivity': Two poems by Dan Melling, introduced by Fran Lock Poetry
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Introduction by Fran Lock Please read the poems below. In Bondage we enter a scene reminiscent of agrarian indentured labour, somewhere (to my mind anyway) in the long Middle Ages. But as the poem progresses, we come to realise that the bond the subject owes is not only to labour,…
Dar Al-Shifa Poetry
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Dar Al-Shifa by Nick Moss 'Genocide enablers: Gaza and the corporate media' Like a war scripted by Asimov on crystal methSquads of quadcopter drones Shooting children in the head,Patrolling the wreckage of the hospital.The shrill scream of the blades,Waiting to target anyone left. Dar al-Shifa. House of healing.Hopital. Shelter for…
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Say Goodnight to the Taoiseach by Declan Geraghty Varadkar is gone goodbye Varadkar we wont miss you you left us so little yet took so much then blamed us because we’re poor when men in suits destroyed the country you blamed the ones in tracksuits and trainers drawing the dole…

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Every document of civilisation is a document of barbarism
Walter Benjamin
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.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
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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