As Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in Berlin and New York, JENNY FARRELL urges viewers of the German Romantic painter to understand its true historical context, and beware its co-option by the far-right

As Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in Berlin and New York, JENNY FARRELL urges viewers of the German Romantic painter to understand its true historical context, and beware his co-option by the far right

JENNY FARRELL traces the critical role that the CPUSA played in the education of Harlem’s greatest man of letters

JENNY FARRELL introduces an extraordinary book that maintains the cultural practise of the GDR by writing about ordinary working lives

JENNY FARRELL celebrates the continuing relevance of the first English-speaking playwright of proletarian origin to create world theatre

JENNY FARRELL pays tribute to the German-born star of the big screen who spoke out against her fascist homeland

JENNY FARRELL examines the detailed symbolism within Picasso's iconic anti-war and anti-fascist painting

On the 570th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s birth, JENNY FARRELL takes a look at the techniques that made the great Renaissance painter and scientist’s work so significant

As a revolutionary, politician, diplomat and leading theoretician of Russian Marxism, she remains one of the towering greats of the 1917 generation, leading the charge on the emancipation of women, writes JENNY FARRELL

Evidence directly implicates the British state in murder, but as the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday approaches, the government is seeking an amnesty for its armed forces, writes JENNY FARRELL

On his 250th birth anniversary, JENNY FARRELL looks back at the life and work of the great Scottish writer

Challenges to ongoing gender bias in Irish literary mainstream

‘Towards a social order worthy of the human race’ – by JENNY FARRELL

The great English poet JOHN KEATS died 200 years ago and his radical understanding of aesthetics reaches far into the future, writes Jenny Farrell

Essential reading on the women’s liberation struggle in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s on

JENNY FARRELL highlights a letter written by the revolutionary icon during her imprisonment in the Vronke Fortress

Jenny Farrell pays tribute to the work of the great African writer NGUGI WA THIONG’O and his incisive Marxist analysis of the continent, past and present

Jenny Farrell pays tribute to JOHN HEARTFIELD, the creator of political photomontage, who died 50 years ago today

Jenny Farrell pays tribute to the great German artist and sculptor KATHE KOLLWITZ