ANDY HEDGECOCK picks out his cultural highlights of 2025
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A warm welcome for the new and much-needed international front for radical artists
Great oaks from little acorns grow: the inauguration of IAF
[International Art Front]
Star cartoonist MALC MCGOOKIN finds lessons for today in the punch, and the economy of line, of an extraordinary generation of illustrators
LEO BOIX, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Dreamers, It Was Just An Accident, Folktales, and Eternity
JENNY MITCHELL, poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, introduces her priorities, and her first selection
HENRY BELL is sceptical of the notion that ‘progress’ is an ideology that the ruling class uses exclusively to camouflage appropriation
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state
BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution
ALMOST since the day the fight for socialism became organised, artists in Britain have looked for ways to use their talents in the aid of this great vision.
In the 1930s Alan Bush founded the William Morris Music Society as an organisation for artists to discuss politics and music and how they work together.
Similarly, in 1933, thanks to Pearl Binder, Clifford Rowe, Misha Black, James Fitton and others, the Artists’ International Association was formed which sought to promote “unity of artists for peace, democracy and cultural development.”
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