A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
THE Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) and Culture Matters are pleased to announce the second edition of their successful Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award, which is also supported and sponsored by the Musicians’ Union.
The award is an example of cultural democracy — the struggle for a more democratic and socialist approach to the arts and all cultural activities, accompanying the struggle of the working class for political and economic democracy.
Our aim is to encouraging young and emerging musicians and performers in particular to write material relevant to working-class people, culture and communities.
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
ANN HENDERSON on the exciting programme planned for this summer’s festival in the Scottish capital



