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Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.

We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.

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Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.

We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.

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  • A montage of photos showing: a child kicking a football inside a closed space; a prtest rally with signs reading: No Staff, No Art; a small child wearing a VR headset with the words ‘let create museums of the future’ super imposed; a signer on stage reaching out towards the crowd

    The state of the arts

    Danielle Child examines the key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government, austerity programmes, Brexit and a global pandemic

  • Delegates to the 19th congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, seated before a stage in front of a large portrait of Vladimir Lenin

    Twilight of the Soviet Union – review

    Kate Clark’s memoir offers an insightful and tragic first hand account of the last years of the Soviet Union, writes Jonathan Steele

  • A line of walkers stretch from the bottom right corner to the middle of the image, moving through a landscape of blue sky, wheat-filled fields and rolling hills

    Ending the horror of immigration detention

    Felicity Laurence reports on Refugee Tales, an action-based campaign publicising the voices of people held in immigration detention centres and subject to horrifying conditions

  • A protest outside a glass-fronted building includes people lying on the floor in a die-in pose next to five people holding a banner that reads: !! STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE with a flag of Palestine

    Fossil Free Books and the power of authors as workers

    Workers can transform the publishing industry for the better, argues Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, not only through justice campaigns but by collective organising that radically challenges the status quo

  • Geeks united: The power of board game clubs

    A teacher at a Midlands secondary school, reports on the positive impacts of a board games club

  • A selection of historical board games on a pink background

    Radical board games: a history

    Agitators, educators and organisers have long created board games to promote radical values. Red Pepper spotlights some playful examples – including one transformed by capitalism

  • Several women holding placards at a protest, reading from left to right 'Kill the bill', 'We will not be silenced' and 'Priti out of order #Killthebill'

    Why would feminists trust the police – review

    Cowan’s book provides a blueprint for feminists to reject carceral thinking and build a more liberative politics, writes Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara

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