Having faced outrageous neglect in the hands of the British art establishment before and after his death in 1987, Renato Guttuso: Painter of Modern Life at the Estorick Collection in London is a welcome retrospective of a fascinating figure of [...]
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Based on the book "The Gangs of Manchester" by Andrew Davies the play describes the Scuttler gang phenomenon of late Victorian Ancoats in Manchester. The area of Ancoats - on the fringes of Manchester's city centre - described by its 21st [...]
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At 464 pages you might decide to pass on reading The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. This would be a mistake. This is a gargantuan work but easily digestible in parts with each chapter standing on its own [...]
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Review of "Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain" by Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin. 2014. Abingdon: Routledge. This meticulous study of UKIP’s rise provides something that until now has been lacking: an academic yet accessible [...]
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The presence of the far right in Ukraine has become a hot topic of discussion in wake of the Maidan movement of late 2013, and the subsequent conflicts over Eastern regions of the Crimea and the Donbass. In Issue 3, [...]
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Michael Gove, until recently Minister of Education, took advantage of this year of remembrance of the outbreak of world war in 1914, and of his personal position of power, to vilify those who describe that bloody world massacre as anything [...]
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A People’s History of Scotland is a gallop through Scottish radical history from the Picts and Gaels through the industrial struggles of the 19th and 20th century to the impending independence referendum and beyond. The pace and scope of Chris [...]
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The Last Days of Troy is a reinterpretation of the siege of Troy, showing us the horrors of war during the centenary of WWI. While Homer’s Iliad is a poetic recitation of the story of the siege, encapsulating the drama [...]
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The First World War unleashed a torrent of artistic responses, not only agitational in nature or designed to combat official propaganda, but moreover a symptom of young minds desperately trying to confront the brutalities of their new century. The influence [...]
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Michael Roberts takes sides in the debate between Keynes and Marx. The purpose of this article is to consider the contributions that John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx can make to our understanding of the nature of the capitalist system and [...]
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