GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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Significant insights into the changing face of anti-austerity activism globally
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
THE NATURE and significance of social movements have been the subject of considerable debate in recent years, with academics comparing and contrasting “newer” and typically identity-based social movements with “older” movements rooted in the class-based politics of the left.
Are traditional class politics being superseded as some, such as French sociologist Andre Gortz, have been suggesting? Farewell to the working class and hello to “middle-class ideological radicalism,” he has argued.
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