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Film of the week / 1 May 2025

1 May 2025

JOHN GREEN recommends a German comedy that celebrates the old GDR values of solidarity, community and a society not dominated by consumerism

Mural depicting the symbol of the revolution - a soldier with a carnation in the barrel of his gun; People celebrating on top of a tank in Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution of April 25 1974 / Pics: IsmailKupeli/CC; Public domain

Books / 24 April 2025

Understanding the Portuguese revolution

24 April 2025

JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal

PULLING NO PUNCHES: Activists from the feminist campaign gro

Features / 17 April 2025

Violent and harmful: legally tackling online pornography

17 April 2025

Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place

(L to R) How many Aunties?, Back Hares Mount, Leeds, 1978; M

Photography / 14 April 2025

Lowry of the lens

14 April 2025

Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds

TOUR DE FORCE: for Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus

Film of the week / 10 April 2025

Underlining the senselessness of war

10 April 2025

Odysseus’s homecoming myth is treated as a factual story, with strong resonances for our contemporary world. This is an implicit anti-war film that has an urgent relevance, writes JOHN GREEN

LABORATORY OF BULLYING: A scene from Ken Loach's Kes

Books / 27 March 2025

Class exercise

27 March 2025

JOHN GREEN recommends an entertaining, if harsh and instructive, study of bullying, discipline and power dynamics in schools and at work

MASTERMIND; (L) Jon Pertwee as Dr Who in Invasion of the Din

Books / 13 March 2025

Dr Who and the scourge of capitalism

13 March 2025

JOHN GREEN surveys the remarkable career of screenwriter Malcolm Hulke and the essential part played by his membership of the Communist Party

CRUNCH TIME: Voters queue outside a polling station in Nuuk,

Features / 12 March 2025

The scramble for Greenland

12 March 2025

As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN

KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL: Wycliffe's Bible in the British Library -

Books / 29 January 2025

When you can’t see the wood for the trees

29 January 2025

JOHN GREEN is dissatisfied with a book that fails to address the promotion of ignorance as a ruling-class strategy to maintain control

REALITY DENIED: Concert in the foyer of the Palast der Repub

Books / 28 January 2025

A toxic German fairytale

28 January 2025

JOHN GREEN takes issue with a mainstream novel designed to denigrate the GDR

IDEOLOGICAL CLARITY: East German propaganda against former N

Books / 22 January 2025

What happened to old Nazis?

22 January 2025

JOHN GREEN advises caution when reading a highly informative account of the way thousands of top Nazis escaped justice and found employment in the West

RISING RIGHT: Activists wearing masks of far-right politicia

Features / 6 January 2025

The far right’s dangerous new playbook for 2025

6 January 2025

Driven on by novel forms of hard-right populism like Modi and Trump, European neofascists are skillfully rebranding themselves and taking power by copying the left's language — just as they did in the last century, writes JOHN GREEN

Books / 18 December 2024

What is fascism, kids?

18 December 2024

JOHN GREEN debates the potential of a book that explores fascism in US history and its contemporary impact to reach the audience it deserves

READ THE BODY LANGUAGE: Merkel, Macron, Putin and Zelensky f

Books / 6 December 2024

Blinkers on

6 December 2024

JOHN GREEN wades through the autobiography of Angela Merkel in search any trace of political vision or historical awareness

Books / 4 December 2024

Ceasefire Now!

4 December 2024

JOHN GREEN appreciates a stunning record of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London

MISUNDERSTOOD BRUTALIST GENIUS: Gordon Benson and Alan Forsy

Books / 27 November 2024

London’s blighted skyline

27 November 2024

Despite its anti-socialist bias, JOHN GREEN recommends a new survey of British architecture that seeks to educate and provoke

DOOMED: William Simpson’s depiction of the Charge of the L

Books / 16 October 2024

Crimea scene investigation

16 October 2024

JOHN GREEN recommends a history of the Black Sea peninsula, situated at a crossroads between Europe and Asia

Books / 3 October 2024

The emancipatory eye

3 October 2024

JOHN GREEN marvels at the rediscovery of a radical US photographer who took the black civil rights movement to her heart

SOLIDARITY: Parents, activists and special needs assistants

Books / 5 September 2024

Practical advice for teachers

5 September 2024

JOHN GREEN recommends a useful how-to guide for teaching children with special needs, aimed at those working in education

Features / 24 July 2024

Is Trump now unstoppable?

24 July 2024

Behind the superficial glitter of the Republican election campaign, lie big money interests and an assortment of extreme right-wing groups – including white supremacists, anti-semites and bizarre conspiracy theorists, warns JOHN GREEN

TEACHING MATERIALS: pages from Michal Rosen and Jeff Perks's

Exhibition preview / 28 June 2024

Anti-imperialism for kids

28 June 2024

JOHN GREEN applauds the clarity with which an upcoming exhibition and book make plain Britain's role in the slave trade

CARNATION REVOLUTIONARY: Celeste Caeiro, 90, holds red carna

Features / 25 April 2024

After the revolution: the new Portugal takes shape

25 April 2024

Covering the revolt for East German television 50 years ago, JOHN GREEN witnessed first-hand how the revolution blossomed and withered, as anti-worker and reformist forces aligned to keep the Communist Party from power

FREE AT LAST: Huge crowds at May Day 1974

Features / 25 April 2024

Fifty years since the Carnation Revolution

25 April 2024

In part one of two articles, JOHN GREEN recounts his experience covering the fall of Portugal’s 41-year-old dictatorship in 24 hours, a remarkable moment of unity and hope, as the masses embraced freedom

OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE: Mayor Andy Burnham proudly sho

Books / 4 April 2024

Good instincts, bad analysis

4 April 2024

With respect for the authors’ intentions, JOHN GREEN demonstrates the lack of class consciousness that undermines their critique of dysfunctional Britain

Jeremy Corbyn addresses supporters at a rally in Willen Lake

Features / 2 April 2024

Is a new left-wing party feasible or desirable?

2 April 2024

As more and more voices on the left contemplate the necessity and viability of a new vehicle for elections to fill the void left by Labour’s violent lurch to the right, JOHN GREEN assesses the terrain — and what not to do

Book Review / 26 March 2024

On the road with Ron Jacobs

26 March 2024

JOHN GREEN finds an ideal travelling companion as he works his way from New England to Florida

ERASING A CULTURE: A mosque destroyed in an Israeli strike i

Features / 1 March 2024

The destruction of Gaza and a post-colonial parallel

1 March 2024

Israeli tactics of obliterating the built and natural environments of Gaza remind JOHN GREEN of the methods he saw used by the reactionary forces of Renamo in Mozambique following its liberation from Portuguese colonial rule

Palestinian refugees, initially displaced to the Gaza beach

Books / 23 February 2024

Normal life before the Nakba

23 February 2024

JOHN GREEN recommends a stunning collection of images that is testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation

SKEWED VIEW: George Orwell at the BBC, 1940; and anarchists�

Books / 22 February 2024

Orwell got it wrong

22 February 2024

JOHN GREEN recommends an excellent survey of the involvement of the British state, and British volunteers, in the Spanish Civil War

Israeli soldiers move near the Israeli-Gaza border as seen f

Opinion / 10 January 2024

Israel: a wolf in sheep’s clothing

10 January 2024

From working closely with Apartheid South Africa to develop its nuclear weapons to supplying the far-right terrorists in Nicaragua with their famous Uzis, Israel has always been a malevolent force internationally, writes JOHN GREEN

Features / 28 December 2023

Henry Wallace: could the cold war have been avoided?

28 December 2023

JOHN GREEN tells the largely forgotten story of Roosevelt’s progressive vice-president who wanted to pursue a more collaborative approach with the USSR — but was cheated out of the Democratic nomination by Truman

SITUATION ROOM: Walt Rostow shows President Lyndon B. Johnso

Books / 7 December 2023

The Great Dissembler

7 December 2023

JOHN GREEN appreciates a meticulous dissection of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency that exposes political and economic structures in the US

LIFTING SPIRITS: Members of La Barraca Republican mobile the

Book Review / 24 October 2023

Spanish Civil War dud

24 October 2023

JOHN GREEN is unimpressed by a novel that simply borrows the civil war as a backdrop

The debt phenomenon is not just found in the housing market

Features / 15 October 2023

Debt, a core tool of capitalism

15 October 2023

Far from being opposed to it, capitalism depends on debt as a way of enforcing loyalty to the profit system from those that have the least to gain from it, explains JOHN GREEN

SUPERIOR: (L to R) Working day of a miner by Frank Ruddigkei

Opinion / 25 September 2023

Tainted with a brush of the West’s disdain

25 September 2023

The recently discovered collection of artworks at the Wismut mine from GDR period challenges ‘received wisdom’ about socialist art, writes JOHN GREEN

Images: Maryam Firuzi; Nowhere Near, Alisa Martynova

Interview / 22 August 2023

My camera is my weapon

22 August 2023

Three internationally renowned female photographers, whose work combines visual innovation, aesthetic brilliance and militancy, talk to JOHN GREEN

NATION BUILDER: Statue of Timur (Tamerlane) by Ivan Jabbarov

Book Review / 13 August 2023

Steppeing out

13 August 2023

JOHN GREEN welcomes a new history that makes the reader question both origins and national identities

Culture / 1 August 2023

Remember this?

1 August 2023

JOHN GREEN marvels at a vision of working-class lives in the industrial Midlands, pre-Thatcher

WISHFUL THINKING? Created by the Soviet sculptor Evgeniy Vuc

Features / 26 July 2023

War: is it in our genes?

26 July 2023

Capitalism drives modern warfare — but our species has waged determined and passionate campaigns of murder against each other long before its arrival. How can we begin to explain this, asks JOHN GREEN

Pontcysyllte in Wales was constructed using cast iron water

Features / 11 May 2023

From industrial revolution's lifelines to spaces of leisure

11 May 2023

JOHN GREEN looks at the Britain’s canal network, its historical arteries

Obituary / 27 April 2023

Harry Belafonte 1927 - 2023

27 April 2023

JOHN GREEN pays tribute to the activism of a man of political fearlessness

FEATHERED FRIENDS: An RSPB handout photo of a swallow

Features / 14 April 2023

One swallow does not a summer make

14 April 2023

Where do swallows go over winter, asks JOHN GREEN

King Charles III, Dietmar Woidke, prime minister of Brandenb

Features / 31 March 2023

Brodowin: King Charles and the post-socialist farm

31 March 2023

The King was probably attracted to the organic farming methods at the largest ‘biodynamic’ farm in Germany, rather than the politics behind them, muses JOHN GREEN

Disgraced Brazilian Evangelical pastor Magno Malta, a staunc

Book Review / 31 March 2023

God’s Rottweillers

31 March 2023

JOHN GREEN takes issue with a well-researched but politically naive history of the evangelical churches in Latin America

Features / 24 March 2023

Bringing beavers to west London

24 March 2023

JOHN GREEN reports on rewilding attempts in the capital and beyond in order to give a boost to rare or endangered wildlife

Books / 14 March 2023

Northern blights

14 March 2023

JOHN GREEN is fascinated to read a crime thriller written from the point of view of Europe’s northern indigenous people

Vika Ivanova (cover), 2009; Liza Vysotskaya on Epiphany, 201

Books / 17 February 2023

Samovars and blintzes

17 February 2023

JOHN GREEN yearns for the real-life stories behind a fairy-tale photobook of rural Russian life

WITCH HUNT: (L to R) Arthur Miller in October 1961; screenwr

Opinion / 9 February 2023

Treacherous anniversary

9 February 2023

On the anniversary of playwright Arthur Miller’s death JOHN GREEN explores the impact of anti-communist paranoia on his work

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: A container of waste is excavated fr

Book Review / 29 January 2023

The dirty secret of US nuclear energy

29 January 2023

JOHN GREEN recommends an exposé of dangerous malpractice at the oldest and largest nuclear site in the US

‘NO TO WAR, snow grafitti on a housing estate in Petrozavo

Book Review / 6 January 2023

Abstract poems that fail to get under your skin

6 January 2023

None of the poets in this collection reveal any understanding whatsoever of the politics involved or the context, writes JOHN GREEN

END OF AN EPOCH: The earliest known image of a cotton mill d

Book Review / 3 January 2023

A lyrical evocation of pre-industrial Calderdale

3 January 2023

Obituary / 2 January 2023

Stan Young, of ardent palette and ardent convictions, dies at 102

2 January 2023

Features / 29 November 2022

The coming cashless dystopia?

29 November 2022

Tapping with your phone, using chip and pin, paying online — it all seems so much easier than notes and coins. But nothing pushed by big tech and the financial industry giants is in our favour, argues JOHN GREEN

Obituary / 27 November 2022

Cuba bids farewell to one of its favourite sons, Pablo Milanes

27 November 2022

(February 24 1943 – November 22 2022)

EXISTENTIAL THREAT: The closing of marketplaces and the erad

Film / 24 November 2022

Requiem for Dublin street traders

24 November 2022

PAST REVISITED? (L to R) Solidarity with Julian Assange demo

Opinion / 22 November 2022

Devalued by greed and debased by intolerance

22 November 2022

JOHN GREEN sees uncomfortable parallels between the demise of ancient Greece and the accelerating decline faced today by Britain and the US

(L to R) Stanhope Forbes, Sheffield - River and Smoking Chim

Exhibition / 16 November 2022

Sheffield settles its debt to water

16 November 2022

JOHN GREEN previews an exhibition that celebrates the human interrelationship with water

Amer Hlehel and Ashraf Farah in Mediterranean Fever

Palestinian Film Festival / 13 November 2022

Films of immediate and political relevance to us here

13 November 2022

JOHN GREEN reports from the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival 2022

WORKING CLASS HEROINES: Few outside of the UK’s former min

Interview / 28 September 2022

No longer satisfied with playing second fiddle

28 September 2022

John Green talks to EMILY INGRAM whose moving documentary charts the remarkable resilience of Doncaster women at the time of the miners’ strike of 1984

STATE TERROR: (L to R) Mark Turnbull, Terry Renshaw, Harry C

Book Review / 25 September 2022

Stitched up by building companies aided by a Tory government

25 September 2022

The Shrewsbury 24 case was a travesty of justice on a unprecedented scale, writes JOHN GREEN

Jean Luc Godard directing Masculin, Feminin with Catherine D

Obituary / 20 September 2022

The rebel who revolutionised filmmaking

20 September 2022

Jean-Luc Godard: December 3 1930 - September 13 2022

Photography / 25 August 2022

Transcending simplistic interpretations

25 August 2022

Goran Tomasevic’s photography impresses JOHN GREEN but he doubts some of the surrounding hype

(L to R) Hidalgo de Cisneros, Constancia de la Mora, Juan Ne

History / 15 August 2022

A woman of principle

15 August 2022

Constancia de la Mora was a heroine of the Spanish Civil War whose story offers lessons for us today, writes JOHN GREEN

Photography / 27 July 2022

Honouring images that tell about empathy rather than hatred

27 July 2022

Putin at the 10th edition of the BRICS summit

Features / 18 July 2022

Economic warfare against Russia won’t help

18 July 2022

As sanctions on begin to hurt business in the West, it’s clear the disastrous economic impact will result in years of chaos and economic crisis – so why is Europe doing this to itself, asks JOHN GREEN

END OF THE ROAD: Jeremy Corbyn at an election rally at Hoxto

BOOKS / 17 July 2022

Four years that shook Britain

17 July 2022

JOHN GREEN recommends an insightful look back at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the opposition

Book Review / 12 July 2022

I Saw Democracy Murdered: the Memoir of Sam Russell

12 July 2022

The Daily Worker and Morning Star foreign editor was a pioneering communist journalist whose reports from the Spanish Civil War to the rise of Solidarnosc in Poland record a life lived on the front line of history, says JOHN GREEN

(L to R) Kliment Voroshilov, Maxim Gorky and Joseph Stalin

Book Review / 13 March 2022

Stalin the bookworm

13 March 2022

JOHN GREEN recommends a book which punctures many a myth about Stalin

Features / 28 February 2022

Agent Orange: the high cost of the West at war

28 February 2022

Those who believe the US and its allies can be held accountable if they go to war need only remember that despite the millions of victims, the US has never accepted responsibility for its 20th-century war crimes in Asia, writes JOHN GREEN

TORTURE BY POETRY’: GROMA Kolibri typewriter, Made in East

Book Review / 13 February 2022

A convoluted ‘shaggy dog story’

13 February 2022

A book that will be relished by those who can’t wait for another socialist nightmare story, suggests JOHN GREEN

Captured Herero and Nama prisoners circa 1904. The Germans m

Features / 30 January 2022

Namibia: a massacre the world forgot

30 January 2022

After Germany lost WWI and with it Namibia, its colonial crimes there were almost buried — until the efforts of the socialist GDR, who in 1974 sent JOHN GREEN undercover to document the nation's past and present struggles

(L to R) Detail of the Central Panel of The Garden of Earthl

Book Review / 27 January 2022

Getting to know the ancient masters of land, sea and air

27 January 2022

JOHN GREEN recommends an impressive compendium of fascinating facts about our feathered friends who have been around for a mere 150 million years

The Dachau concentration camp memorial by Yugoslav sculptor

Art in the Open / 25 January 2022

Death camp memorials of Dachau, Mauthausen and Majdanek

25 January 2022

‘Let our fate be a warning to you’ is cut into the stone of Majdanek Mausoleum a timely reminder of what may come in the wake of racial hate and xenophobia

Book Review / 23 January 2022

Dearth of insight mars intriguing memoir

23 January 2022

(L to R) Mr Magnolia by Quentin Blake and The Owl and the Pu

Exhibition / 10 January 2022

Quentin Blake – doyen of children’s book illustrators

10 January 2022

Opinion / 9 January 2022

Chamberlain and the rewriting of history

9 January 2022

JOHN GREEN takes issue with critics’ praise for a biopic that glosses over facts to paint a fake and revisionist picture

WORKING CLASS HERO: Edo Fimmen (insert) monument in Rotterd

Book Review / 16 December 2021

The Nazis’ most implacable enemies

16 December 2021

This fascinating but neglected history of working-class resistance to Nazi occupation is essential reading, believes JOHN GREEN

FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS: Pupils of the Sir John Cass Found

History / 26 November 2021

An eloquent lesson in classroom resistance

26 November 2021

JOHN GREEN remembers the moment when Stepney Words, a book of poetry by working-class schoolchildren, rocked the East End of London

The Me Too movement alongside Black Lives Matter are challen

Features / 23 November 2021

You can't be a pacifist in the culture wars

23 November 2021

The ideology of the ruling class will always clash with the ideals of the oppressed — the left cannot and should not stay out of the fight. However it must pick its battles wisely and not allow identity politics to get in the way of solidarity, writes JOHN GREEN

Karl Liebknecht addresses a rally in Tiergarten, Berlin in 1

Book Review / 29 October 2021

Flawed analysis leads to oversimplification of Hitler’s rise to power

29 October 2021

Antipathy for communists mars the authors’ ability to see the wood for the trees, believes JOHN GREEN

(Left) Burning tires, Corcoran, California, 2014; (right) Al

Photography / 25 October 2021

The other humiliation of America

25 October 2021

It is not Matt Black’s individual, infinitely sad images that make up the overall picture – it is how widespread their themes of desperation are right across the country’s geography, writes JOHN GREEN

(L to R) Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture by Vera Mukhina,

Photography / 24 October 2021

Sad glimpses of an era gone by

24 October 2021

Bleak documentation of the remnants of the Soviet period is made soulless by an absence of human beings, writes JOHN GREEN

Photography / 18 October 2021

A most tender declaration of love

18 October 2021

This is Cuba like you’ve never seen it before, captured stunningly by former welder Raul Canibano, writes JOHN GREEN

(L to R) David Gentleman, Martin Rowson, Banksy

Exhibition / 11 September 2021

Art reflects the resolve of anti-war cause

11 September 2021

Powerful pieces visually reflect and aid the political determination of Stop the War, writes JOHN GREEN

Long goodbye: Angela Merkel is to leave office after 16 year

Features / 26 August 2021

September's elections: a letter from Germany

26 August 2021

The next administration will have to wrestle with the thorny topic of a crumbling EU and the demands from the US for a new Cold War — and sadly, the new government is unlikely to be left wing, reports JOHN GREEN

Features / 29 July 2021

How the pandemic is intensifying alienation

29 July 2021

With increased surveillance monitoring of those working from home, greater job insecurity, and a lack of human contact in restructured roles, mental health problems are likely to rise among workers, says JOHN GREEN

PRIDE BEFORE FALL: John Stonehouse (on the right) with the Q

BOOKS / 18 July 2021

Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy

18 July 2021

Labour Party high-flier's downfall a bathetic tale of misjudgement and greed

BEFORE AND AFTER: Engels statue in Ukraine (inset) and its a

ONLINE WATCH / 14 June 2021

Marxism makes monumental Manchester mark

14 June 2021

JOHN GREEN recommends a unique documentary on the timely return of Friedrich Engels to the city

DECLINE: Abandoned factories symbolise Burnley's impoverishm

BOOKS / 23 May 2021

On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town

23 May 2021

Salutary lessons to be learned from race riots in a ‘red wall’ Burnley

FILM REVIEW / 11 May 2021

Radical responses from a star turn

11 May 2021

JOHN GREEN recommends a documentary on actor Sean Penn's support for progressive social and political causes

PICTURE THIS / 19 April 2021

Beyond Caring

19 April 2021

Damning indictment of unemployment in the Thatcher era

FRATERNAL BONDS: Fritz and Hans with their older brorher Art

FILM ONLINE / 12 April 2021

Tvins

12 April 2021

Affecting story of twin-brother Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi Germany and settled in Bradford

FILM REVIEW / 28 March 2021

Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets

28 March 2021

Timely reminder of the battle to overthrow a vicious attack on the working class by the state

HARD FACT: Soldiers of French 87th Regiment in their trenche

BOOKS / 17 March 2021

Germ of a solution

17 March 2021

JOHN GREEN recommends a revelatory account of global pandemics and the ways they can be prevented in future

MIGHT NO LONGER RIGHT: USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the P

Features / 9 March 2021

A race against time to create a new green economy

9 March 2021

JOHN GREEN looks at how Beijing has raced ahead in environmental initiatives leaving the West, held to ransom by the fossil fuel cartels, panicking in its wake

ONES TO WATCH: Danny Sapani (left) and Anton Lesser

THEATRE ONLINE / 7 March 2021

Brothers bereft of context

7 March 2021

Wider political and social concerns never intrude on a domestic drama of fraternal discovery, says JOHN GREEN

FEAT OF ENGINEERING: The Aynadamar irrigation canal - built

BOOKS / 17 February 2021

The origins and achievements of Islamic Spain

17 February 2021

JOHN GREEN recommends a book on the unique cultural and scientific society created over seven centuries in al-Andalus

January 1991: Students and lecturers at Berlin’s Humboldt

Features / 7 February 2021

The Krelle case – how former Nazis helped dismantle socialism in the GDR

7 February 2021

Post-unification, an entire generation of GDR citizens had their qualifications devalued or disregarded in a sinister anti-left purge that was termed the ‘changing of the elite.’ JOHN GREEN reports

Features / 22 January 2021

Outsmarting the media moguls

22 January 2021

One of the major problems for engagement with progressive politics is the dominance of the right-wing, corporate media — a situation which is only getting worse with Murdoch's plans to expand. We must fight back on all fronts, writes JOHN GREEN

THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED: Protest on the str

FILM REVIEW / 10 January 2021

Santiago Rising

10 January 2021

Excellent documentary on the street demonstrations against neoliberal authoritarianism and for a new constitution in Chile

Features / 5 January 2021

How capitalism messes up our brains

5 January 2021

In-built in the system is the deliberate playing on our fears and insecurity. No wonder we’re left feeling so miserable and conflicted, writes JOHN GREEN

(L to R) Busking Miner (unemployed young Welshman met buskin

EXHIBITION / 21 December 2020

A welcome ‘rediscovery’

21 December 2020

A new exhibition in Oxford restores the reputation of HELEN MUSPRATT as one of the 20th century's great radical photographers, says John Green

(L to R) Miners returning to daylight, Bill Brandt c1936; Pi

Exhibition / 19 November 2020

A juxtaposition that reveals two Intriguing kindred spirits

19 November 2020

Features / 19 October 2020

The culture wars and rolling back the state

19 October 2020

The right-wing ‘war on woke’ is being used as a smokescreen for the dismantling of regulations on business and the economy, while workers’ rights and local government funding are eroded and cut back, argues JOHN GREEN

‘MEGAMACHINE’ VICTIM: Slum dweller, Jakarta

BOOKS / 15 September 2020

Bleak consequences of a malevolent machine age at the point of collapse

15 September 2020

Fabian Scheidler's book pinpoints how the destructive history of militarised states, capital accumulation and ideological power is threatening our future, says JOHN GREEN

ICONIC: Baby with child-minders and dogs in Hillbrow park, 1

PHOTOGRAPHY / 31 August 2020

Indictment of a society corroded by racial discrimination and injustice

31 August 2020

A new exhibition demonstrates why photographer David Goldblatt became an iconic documentarist of the apartheid system, says JOHN GREEN

BOOKS / 27 August 2020

Stolen Heritage: The Strange Death of Industrial England by Anthony Warwick-Ching

27 August 2020

Invaluable account of how Britain's industry has been destroyed

PROPELLED TOWARDS MARXISM: Vere Gordon Childe

BOOKS / 13 April 2020

The Fatal Lure of Politics by Terry Irving

13 April 2020

Engrossing biography of eminent archaeologist with a revolutionary impulse

CRITICAL PHILOSOPHER: Theodor W Adorno (right)

Books / 9 February 2020

Aspects of the New Right-wing Extremism by Theodor W Adorno

9 February 2020

Warning from history still resonates

BOOKS / 5 February 2020

Marxism by Christian Fuchs

5 February 2020

Worthy primer flawed by abstruse terminology

Photography / 27 January 2020

Centralia: Photographs by Poulomi Basu

27 January 2020

Images of an unreported war in India

The final shift leaves Kellingley Colliery on the last day o

Features / 16 January 2020

New thinking needed - not nostalgia for the past

16 January 2020

We must go to the warehouses and call centres where modern working class are today, not where yesterdays workers were, writes JOHN GREEN

Features / 8 December 2019

‘My time canvassing in Uxbridge makes me believe a Labour win is possible’

8 December 2019

JOHN GREEN reports from the doorsteps in the PM’s constituency – where Labour is seeking to overturn a Tory majority of a mere 5,000 votes

Willi Münzenberg addressing a meeting (place and date unknown)

Biography / 4 December 2019

A forgotten inspiration

4 December 2019

Described by MI5 as ‘notorious,’ WILLI MUNZENBERG was at the top of the nazis’ most wanted list in the run-up to WWII. His name may have vanished from history but he was one of the most prominent, charismatic and revered figures in the world socialist movement during the inter-war years and, in this extract from his new biography, John Green explains why

Features / 31 October 2019

Though cowards flinch

31 October 2019

We have to rise above the backstabbing and campaign like never before to avoid Corbyn and McDonnell becoming ‘the best government team we never had,’ writes JOHN GREEN

Chris Taylor - Vicky Grout - Oliver Woods

Photography / 9 September 2019

Portrait of Britain Vol. 2

9 September 2019

Kaleidoscope of the extraordinary diversity of Britain’s population

Fiction Review / 11 July 2019

The first great political novel of the Trump era

11 July 2019

JOHN GREEN recommends an acute portrait of a troubled and divided US by Barbara Kingsolver

Photography / 6 June 2019

Portrait of Humanity

6 June 2019

Stunning photographs from around the globe

Unsung heroine: Sylvia Meehan, women’s rights campaigner

Book Review / 6 May 2019

Left Lives in 20th-century Ireland, Vol 2

6 May 2019

Invaluable biographies of trade union and labour movement activists ignored in mainstream histories

Culture / 24 April 2019

Eyeing up Istanbul

24 April 2019

JOHN GREEN recommends an exhibition of images of his native city by one of the world's greatest photographers

OPINION / 28 March 2019

Time to return to dystopia

28 March 2019

We're now living though the scenarios predicted in novels like 1984 and Brave New World. What can we learn from them about the world today, asks JOHN GREEN

Balham, London, circa 1961, Paul Kaye
© The Paul Kaye Colle

Photography Review / 21 March 2019

Paradise Street: The Lost Art of Playing Outside

21 March 2019

Evocative images of a time when children were free to play in the streets

Culture / 10 March 2019

Book Review: All Together Now? by Mike Carter

10 March 2019

From Liverpool to London, Mike Carter provides a devastating account of what's going on in austerity Britain

Culture / 3 March 2019

Theatre Review: Tartuffe

3 March 2019

Cheap laughs blunt Moliere's razor-sharp comedy on bourgeois hypocrisy

Book Review / 21 February 2019

The City laid bare

21 February 2019

JOHN GREEN is impressed by a photography book that candidly exposes the nerve centre of British capitalism

Photography Review / 5 February 2019

Through a lens darkly

5 February 2019

A new exhibition shows why Don McCullin is such a brilliant chronicler of a conflicted world, says JOHN GREEN

Culture / 9 December 2018

Best of 2018: Books

9 December 2018

by JOHN GREEN

11:00 A.M. Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter’s Bra

Photography / 21 November 2018

Iconic images from founding father of US social photography

21 November 2018

The images in Taschen's new book on Lewis W Hine capture the harsh realities of a country undergoing profound transformation, says JOHN GREEN

Interview / 3 October 2018

'Where is the justice?'

3 October 2018

That's the question posed by MARK GILLIS in his film depicting the harsh realities of working-class life in one of the richest cities in the world. He tells John Green why he's asking it

Book Review / 30 September 2018

Revelatory account of how and why Britain armed brutal dictatorships in 1970s' Chile and Argentina

30 September 2018

Picture This / 30 September 2018

The fattened-up cow collapsing in the excrement of its own greed

30 September 2018

Film Review / 13 September 2018

They did not pass

13 September 2018

JOHN GREEN recommends a film on the extraordinary initiative by the Scottish factory workers who four decades ago put a spoke in the wheel of murderous Pinochet war machine in Chile

Obituary / 14 August 2018

Felicia Langer, communist, lawyer and fighter for peace and justice in Palestine December 9 1930 – June 21 2018

14 August 2018

JOHN GREEN remembers the activist whose main concern was always a just and fair peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, the recipient of the German Federal Order of Merit and the Bruno Kreisky prize for human rights

Leeds Postcards, by Christine Hankinson and Craig Oldham

Culture / 10 August 2018

Postcard agitation

10 August 2018

The time for sending postcards might have passed but JOHN GREEN believes the Leeds postcards political messages have been validated by history

Book review / 25 July 2018

Tendentious arguments for why journalism still matters

25 July 2018

Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933 a

Exhibition Review / 22 June 2018

Documentary dramas

22 June 2018

JOHN GREEN recommends an exhibition of compelling photographic narratives on social and political injustice

Book review / 23 May 2018

Flawed visions of achieving the 'common good'

23 May 2018

Book Review / 22 April 2018

Revelatory history of League Against Imperialism

22 April 2018

Alison Rose and the female members of the ENO Chorus

OPERA REVIEW / 30 March 2018

This Figaro hits all the right notes

30 March 2018

An excellent production that brings out all the class and gender issues as well as offering an impressive staging, writes JOHN GREEN

Book Review / 15 March 2018

Acute angles on the revolution that changed the world

15 March 2018

US helicopters spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam

Features / 14 February 2018

The deadly double standards of the West

14 February 2018

A fraction of the money poured into devastating wars would alleviate the ongoing suffering of people affected by Agent Orange, writes JOHN GREEN

Book Review / 9 January 2018

Key moment in Coventry's labour movement history

9 January 2018

Economics / 4 January 2018

The new Mafia capitalism

4 January 2018

A new, totally unregulated and unscrupulous form of capitalism has emerged, mired in dirty money from drug-dealing, pornography and corruption, writes JOHN GREEN

Book Review / 20 December 2017

Unique insight into 1960s Britain and Czechoslovakia from men of letters

20 December 2017

Book review / 18 December 2017

Books: Moving tribute to a selfless US communist

18 December 2017

Opinion / 13 December 2017

To Brexit or not to Brexit?

13 December 2017

JOHN GREEN argues that the EU has, from its inception, facilitated the increase of the power of multinational corporations with scant regard for the needs of the people