MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Their walls are our stones
MIKE QUILLE has some ideas about how to bring about radical cultural change
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
LAST September I reported on The World Transformed festival, organised by Momentum alongside the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Building on the commitments in the 2017 Labour Manifesto, it included several workshops on culture looking at what the elements of a radical culture policy might be.
That manifesto, clearly reflecting the personal vision of Jeremy Corbyn and his team, was a marked improvement on previous ones. He was the only candidate in 2015 to support the role of the arts in nourishing everyday creativity and its potential for political dissent.
The manifesto also backed policies to improve working-class access to culture, both as workers in creative industries and as spectators and consumers of culture.
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