JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
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Why I'm Voting Labour: Ruth Aylett, poet, professor, activist
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PAUL DONOVAN enjoys a brutally honest rags to riches memoir of the actor’s life, even if it clearly lacks any political insight
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely biography of a contemporary of Marx and Engels who advocated revolutionary socialism
RICHARD CLARKE welcomes a study that extends an understanding of Marxism beyond human society to encompass the whole of nature
Despite an underwhelming finale, FIONA O CONNOR relishes a vivid exploration of the Cinecitta of Pasolini and Fellini at their height
MARIA DUARTE recommends a surreal and brilliant take on corporate lay-offs and their consequences
I LIVE in Edinburgh, the city of festivals, and am both a poet and a teacher of computing.
As a poet, I see young colleagues with great artistic talent ground down by the impossibility of living on their poetry, combined with precarious employment in dead-end warehouse or call-centre jobs that suck out their creativity.
And how many people really understand that the Edinburgh Fringe runs on an army of super-exploited young people on zero-hours contracts or, worse still, are hired as interns on expenses only? Or that the only substantial housing going up in this city is student flats, while the tenements students move out of are becoming AirBnB rentals?
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