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Monday, 09 May 2022 07:32

Culture for All: Why Sport Matters

Written by Culture Matters

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As part of the Culture for All series, supported by the Communication Workers Union, we're proud to present a short film about why sport matters, by Michael Roberts. Why Sport Matters by Michael Roberts Sport is one of the most popular cultural activities in the world. It is essential to…

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Friday, 08 April 2022 13:12

Culture for All: Why Football Matters

Written by Culture Matters

in Sport

Next up in our series of short films about culture and cultural democracy is a film by Martin Cloake on football, followed by the text of his talk Football is the great passion for so many of us. Going to the match is an escape, a chance to be a…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 26 December 2021 16:15

Colliers, coalfields and communism

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Written by David Douglass

David Douglass review Colliers: Northumberland's Pitmen and Their Football League Team, by Jon Tait, Rough Badger Press ISBN 9798532247727 The coalfields of the 20's were a hotbed of discontent and militant communist agitation. The Bishop of Durham Dr Hensley Henson said that his Durham diocese was the most communistic in…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 04 December 2021 10:59

Boxing, crime and capitalism: review of The Bittersweet Science

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Written by Daniel Rosenberg

Daniel Rosenberg reviews The Bittersweet Science by Gerald Horne, £19.70, $19.95. New York: International Publishers, 2021. It is difficult to defend boxing. It is often brutal, and sometimes deadly. Its less odious, even admirable, traits involve skill, speed, tactics, concentration, and movement. In combination with the strictest safety precautions, and…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 02 April 2021 16:01

Building a popular, progressive sporting culture

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Written by Mark Perryman

Mark Perryman has been reading up on the sport we’ve lost, and what sport might become, as what seems like a never-ending lockdown gradually eases Way back when, during the first lockdown, March ’20, Jonathan Liew wrote a brilliant column on small sport vs big sport. What Jonathan meant by…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 24 July 2020 10:58

Black Cricketers Matter: Racism, Resistance and the West Indies

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Written by Sean Ledwith

Sean Ledwith shows how cricket can be a site and a symbol of political liberation as well as of racist, imperialist oppression The First Test between England and West Indies this summer was memorable for a number of reasons. It was the first Test match played in the post-lockdown, new…

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Monday, 13 July 2020 13:40

Changing the rules of the people’s game

Written by Martin Cloake

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Martin Cloake, in the latest in the joint Morning Star/ Culture Matters series on the Covid-19 pandemic and cultural activities, considers its effects on football and what's needed to improve the game During the COVID-19 pandemic the football business has probably experienced one of the biggest jolts of any business.…

Wednesday, 04 September 2019 18:52

Don't just spectate, agitate! Bury, Bolton, and the capitalist takeover of football

Written by Doc Ritchie

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Doc Ritchie tells us to resist capitalist accumulation in football by tightening regulation and changing the ownership and management of football clubs. Images courtesy of fan-owned Clapton FC Football is a game owned by billionaires, played by millionaires, and paid for by you. Premier League players have no real relationship…

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:44

What do they know of cricket, that only cricket know?

Written by Mark Perryman

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Mark Perryman criticises the exclusive way some sports are managed, and suggests some progressive policies to bring out all the benefits of sport – for the many, not the few. Cricket’s version of the ‘years of hurt’ – 44 in this case – came to a spectacular end early last…

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Thursday, 04 July 2019 09:37

Liberté, Egalité, Velocité: the Bicyclists' Road to Socialism

Written by Mark Perryman

in Sport

As Le Tour begins, Mark Perryman offers up a 5-point transitional programme for a cycling revolution It's July – the month when since 2012 first Wiggins, then Froome, and last year Thomas, turn Le Maillot Jaune into Le Maillot Britannique. Or in Thomas’ case Le Maillot Gallois. And on the…