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War, Starmer and Farage: Three poems from Phil Knight
Anti-war poster, c. 1970 Take Your Eyes Off the Prize“Busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.”—William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two When long-buried truthsAre brought into the light,And…
Goya’s ‘Los Desastres de la Guerra’: a witness to imperial violence and terror
Los Desastres de la Guerra, by Francisco Goya, 1810-1820. Image: Wikimedia commons By Jenny Farrell At the threshold of the imperialist era, when the revolutionary promises of…
The Baptist
The Baptist said of everything going on in Gaza:It’ll all come out in the wash… All the bloodstains of Palestinian innocentsWill come out in the wash? The…
Military Nostalgia Complex
Image: Alan McGuire By Alan McGuire There’s a new war film out,not in the cinema,but on your TV. According to the manosphereyou need to be a man….
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BrewDog: Origins of the crisis and how a socialist approach could have made a difference
Image: Rawpixel.com By Keith Flett BrewDog has been much in the news and as often in recent times not for good reasons. There are three parts to…
Building a Library Campaign
Commons image By John Pateman My first article, Decolonising Public Libraries, explained the history and context of public libraries. This second article, Building a Library Campaign, covers…
truth is not just a casualty, it’s a fatality, In the corporate media war of aggression against Iran
By Dennis Broe ‘The first casualty of war is the truth’, was spoken in one of its iterations by a senator in 1918 appalled at a new…
Our Culture: Our history, their risk assessment – Why the grade listed buildings of today are the Lidls of tomorrow
In this edition of Our Culture Jack Clarke takes us on a tour of Salford and the stops includes several buildings that have been abandoned. Here Jack critiques the likes of the listing of buildings and heritage policy that sounds good on paper but does little in reality if the building isn’t in the right postcode. He finishes with some suggestions on how policy changes can be made to give local communities more power over the protection, maintenance and restoration of local buildings.
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Image: Rawpixel.com By Keith Flett BrewDog has been much in the news and as often in recent times not for good reasons. There are three... Continue reading
Commons image By John Pateman My first article, Decolonising Public Libraries, explained the history and context of public libraries. This second article, Building a Library... Continue reading
Los Desastres de la Guerra, by Francisco Goya, 1810-1820. Image: Wikimedia commons By Jenny Farrell At the threshold of the imperialist era, when the revolutionary... Continue reading
‘And your giant face on the plaza…..’ Image by Duncan Reekie By Duncan Reekie Soto get to the house you had tomake your waydown the... Continue reading
The Baptist said of everything going on in Gaza:It’ll all come out in the wash… All the bloodstains of Palestinian innocentsWill come out in the... Continue reading
Image: Alan McGuire By Alan McGuire There’s a new war film out,not in the cinema,but on your TV. According to the manosphereyou need to be... Continue reading