Over 500 artists, filmmakers, playwrights and writers pledge their ‘full support’ for Labour
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) on stage with colleagues and performers after announcing his party's "arts for all" policy at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London
Focus on equal access to assisted death rather than risks of legalisation for oppressed groups wrongheaded, MPs and campaigners say
MORE than 500 cultural figures have said that they “owe it to the country, the world and the future” to support Labour at the coming election.
An open letter signed by scores of artists, filmmakers, playwrights and writers has pledged “full support” for Labour’s manifesto, It’s Time For Real Change, which they describe as “the most visionary offered to the British electorate in living memory.”
Published in Tribune today, the letter praises Labour’s “vision of the arts as being integral to communities, and its conception of politics as something inherently collective, creative and transformative.”
Similar stories
NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the Communist Party of Britain’s commitment to culture and suggests that the Victorian critic points the way toward combining social function with beauty
Artists are frequently first in line when it comes to cuts, but society as a whole is left all the poorer – it’s time they were properly valued, says ZITA HOLBOURNE of Artists Union England
VANESSA CORBY asks what will the arts do for everyday working people?
PATRYCJA ROZBICKA surveys the manifestos and is frustrated by the lack of discussion of our music and night-time industries