RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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A visionary who still inspires
Jenny Farrell pays tribute to JOHN HEARTFIELD, the creator of political photomontage, who died 50 years ago today
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
A FEARLESS communist and activist who lived through two world wars, John Heartfield was born in Berlin in 1891.
Along with his brother and two sisters he was abandoned by his parents at the age of eight and went with his siblings to live with relatives. After finishing school, the brothers moved first to Wiesbaden and from there to Munich where Heartfield studied art.
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TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today
The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neofascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today, writes JACOB YASKO
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