ALEX HALL recommends an exhaustive investigation of the means by which the Starmer faction assassinated the left
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Ruskin’s vision
NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the Communist Party of Britain’s commitment to culture and suggests that the Victorian critic points the way toward combining social function with beauty
RUSKIN’S VISION: The social housing complex Alt-Erlaa, 1970s, by architect Harry Gluck in Vienna, Austria is centered on the welfare of the residents and includes saunas, indoor and outdoor (roof-top) swimming pools, gyms and other exquisite communal areas
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DAVID MORGAN recommends a refreshingly inspiring novel that features encounters with some tremendous women
BOB NEWLAND recommends a political thriller from former anti-apartheid activist Peter Hain
JAMES WALSH speaks to Chris Thorpe-Tracey - among many things, a one-time Morning Star columnist — about songs, cities, politics and prophecy
New releases from Max Richter, Julius Asal, and Jean-Michel Jarre
RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation
RECENTLY I have been delighted to see the Communist Party take the issue of culture more seriously.
Raymond Williams argued that “the Labour Party and the unions had failed throughout even to see the cultural struggle as a major element in all political and economic struggles.”
There is much for Marxists to consider. The founders of Western Marxism, Gyorgy Lukacs and Antonio Gramsci, made huge contributions in this space as did our own Christopher Caudwell.
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PHIL KATZ applauds the biography of a man of principle that is a vibrant excavation of the radical tradition itself
RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy
PAUL MACGEE highlights a new series of books that brings together a treasure trove of writings by a Jewish Marxist art historian who offers readers a refreshingly grounded theory of art