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Workers Are Downing Tools
Workers by Peter Kennard By Owen Gallagher Workers are downing tools.They’re downing picks and shovels,hods and drills, leaving conveyor beltsand tills. They’re downing clipboardsand keyboards, scalpels, and…
Storm the Heights of Culture: Public Art in the German Democratic Republic
Public art in the German Democratic Republic The Tricontinental Art Bulletin Today, there is growing recognition of the German Democratic Republic’s (DDR) building-integrated art and the type…
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Image of U.S./Israeli strike on Iran by Anadolou Agency By Anne Enith Cooper Scroll, scroll, freeze. And I’m lookinginto the eyes of a boy cryingfor the the…
Who owns the Tenement Novel?
Adam Page asks who owns the Tenement Novel nowadays and where did it come from.
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Journal of Class and Culture – Fourth Annual Conference
University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford, England Saturday 3 October • 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM Organised by University of Hertfordshire and University of the…
Why can’t Women Be Priests?
Photo credit: Stephen Brash By Geoff Bottoms Why can’t women be priests? It’s a good question whose time has come, and in many parts of the universal…
Ten books that shook the World Cup
Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman recommends ten reads that reveal the tournament at its best and worst.
Bass, Big Beer & popular demand
By Keith Flett Can a campaign from below, a democratic campaign on a social and cultural activity like beer drinking, have any effect? Yes, it can. The…
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Workers by Peter Kennard By Owen Gallagher Workers are downing tools.They’re downing picks and shovels,hods and drills, leaving conveyor beltsand tills. They’re downing clipboardsand keyboards,... Continue reading
Public art in the German Democratic Republic The Tricontinental Art Bulletin Today, there is growing recognition of the German Democratic Republic’s (DDR) building-integrated art and... Continue reading
Image of U.S./Israeli strike on Iran by Anadolou Agency By Anne Enith Cooper Scroll, scroll, freeze. And I’m lookinginto the eyes of a boy cryingfor... Continue reading
Adam Page asks who owns the Tenement Novel nowadays and where did it come from. Continue reading
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By Alan Morrison You threw out The Red Flag & JerusalemFor the Union Jack & God Save The King& a Party that didn’t stand for... Continue reading
Image by Karen Dietrich By Nick Moss In the June/July 2026 issue of The London Magazine, the editors asked a broadly selected group of poets... Continue reading
Underdogs is available here Underdogs is the first novel by the working-class, Middlesbrough-born writer Louise Powell. The book is set in 1998 in County Durham... Continue reading