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DISTINGUISHED: Portrait of Hans Hess c1962 (photographer unk
Features / 20 June 2025
Celebrating Hans Hess: the Marxist curator who defied fascism through art
20 June 2025

NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend

LEADING THE WAY: Wind power plants in Xinjiang, China. Photo: Chris Lim/Creative Commons
Features / 9 June 2025
China’s energy transition is a world historical breakthrough
9 June 2025

As new wind, solar and nuclear capacity have displaced coal generation, China has been able to drastically lower its CO2 emissions even as demand for power has increased — the world must take note and get ready to follow, writes NICK MATTHEWS

Billionaires: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff
Features / 25 January 2025
Labour’s servitude to big tech will not end well
25 January 2025
The government needs to raise its game when it comes to the tech giants who behave like the robber barons of old, argues NICK MATTHEWS
Lenin speaking in Moscow's Red Square on May Day, 1919
Features / 25 February 2024
Defending materialism: Lenin the philosopher
25 February 2024
NICK MATTHEWS looks at the great Bolshevik leader’s intense three-week period of furious study in the British Library in 1908 and the timeless classic on Marxism and philosophy it produced: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Album review / 24 November 2023
Mozart and Mambo
24 November 2023
NICK MATTHEWS recommends a vivacious blend of classical and traditional Cuban music that brings swing to Mozart
At Braunston the Grand Union Canal and the Oxford Canal meet
Features / 31 October 2023
100 years ago – when the Braunston canal families went on strike
31 October 2023
NICK MATTHEWS looks back to the historic 14-week dispute which was to form a significant early test for the then-recently formed Transport and General Workers Union
Features / 5 September 2023
Joseph Arch, a rural rebel
5 September 2023
We have a lot to honour and much to learn from the giants of the historical 'class struggle in the fields,' writes NICK MATTHEWS
Rowe’s lithograph of Keir Hardy (left) and (right) his pai
Features / 25 October 2022
Cosmo Rowe and two Wolverhampton houses
25 October 2022
For decades, portraits of great socialists by the same artist hung in very different houses, one working class and one a country estate — and both played a role in labour movement history, writes NICK MATTHEWS
Levellers' Day parade in Burford
History / 21 May 2022
The ideals of the Levellers are alive and well
21 May 2022
NICK MATTHEWS recalls the founding of the annual Levellers Day and its stalwart supporters Dudley Edwards and Tony Benn
(L to R) Spring: Plum Trees in Bloom, 1877 and Self-Portrait
Exhibition / 4 April 2022
A painter whose art expressed his social vision
4 April 2022
NICK MATTHEWS recommends an exhibition by an artist who was as true to his art as he was to his radical politics
LEGENDS: Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson at th
Features / 25 March 2022
Is there another country that is so alienated from its own music?
25 March 2022
NICK MATTHEWS looks back on the continuing legacy of Alan Bush, the Workers Music Association’s Topic Records and BBC Radio 3
Just as the events of 1842 outside the Leopard are a story o
Features / 20 February 2022
Last orders at the Leopard: the end of the pub?
20 February 2022
The remarkable history of a Stoke pub, which played a role in the industrial revolution and the early days of the labour movement, has ended with an unremarkable fate: what will become of our traditional social spaces, asks NICK MATTHEWS