The Tories' weakness over Europe is our side's potential strength, writes Sally Campbell
People Before Profit won two seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly elections last month, with Eamonn McCann winning a seat in Derry and Gerry Carroll topping the poll in West Belfast. How big an...
The creeping marketisation of higher education has had major implications for staff contracts. Xanthe Rose explains the extent of casualised work in the sector.
In 1977 Jatinder Verma got together with some like-minded friends in south London and founded Tara Arts — the first British Asian theatre company. It was a political act, fuelled by resistance...
In June 1916 thousands of Arabs rose up against the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled over the region for four centuries. They fought with the backing of the British and French governments, not...
Graphic designer David King, who died last month, was inspired by the art produced in revolutionary Russia. Roger Huddle looks back on a pathbreaking artist and his contribution to political...
Jon Berry’s Teachers Undefeated: How Global Education Reform has Failed to Crush the Spirit of Educators is a great read for anyone who wants not only to know the problems with education but who...
The idea that we are in the Anthropocene — a geological epoch defined by human activity — is now catching the interest of activists. It is becoming clear that human activity affects the Earth...
This page-turning, vodka-sodden, tragi-comic crime thriller about political corruption and moral predicaments is a brilliant holiday read.
It’s set in the future: Russia has been taken...
“A class war is being fought and the poor are losing.” Any book that acknowledges this harsh reality is worth a look.
The author, a former Financial Times journalist, goes on to write...
A recent Radio 3 “Free Thinking” interview described Slavoj Žižek’s latest work as a “call to arms to imagine a new Europe”. If you read it expecting a manifesto for change, you will be...
Norman’s Geras’s classic defence of human nature has been republished as part of Verso’s Radical Thinkers series.
Geras wrote this tightly argued little book as a riposte to Louis...
Nomads are often dismissed or overlooked. Indeed, one relatively recent book declared that nomads “have had no major role in world history for the past 500 years”. Such views are often based on...
Project fear is a fascinating insight into the characters and thought processes of those at the heart of the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence during the referendum and the...
The moment I read the first sentence of this book I knew I’d made a mistake agreeing to write a review of it. Determining class based upon whether you call dinner “tea” or “lunch” doesn’t bode...
This book needs to be read, if it needs to be read at all, in the context of the general assault on the left as personified by Jeremy Corbyn. It comes at the more polite end of the scale of these...
“We are anti-racist and anti-fascist” claimed the Clash in their first interview with the then important music paper the NME. They explained that they had been at the riot at the Notting Hill...
The exhibition’s title refers to the boxes/cages in which Bacon confines his subjects. The viewers/voyeurs can see them; the subjects can only feel them confining them. The paintings are...
This adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel centres on the lives of eight Londoners during the Second World War, and then as they construct their new lives post-war.
Kay, an ambulance worker...
“If you say how the world is, that should be enough”, says Ken Loach at the start of this documentary, adding that “politics is essential”. His is a kind of politics which wants to show how...
Fire at Sea is a powerful and moving documentary about refugees on the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. So far 400,000 migrants have landed on the island and 15,000 have died making the...
Michael Moore’s new film is not, as the title implies, a film about overwhelming US military might and another ill-conceived imperialist war. Instead the more bizarre premise involves Moore “...
Lift theatre festival
Various London venues, until 2 July
This biennial festival is in its 35th year and includes performances at the Barbican, Sadlers Wells, an East...