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The Radical Case for Scottish Independence covers a wide range of topics including the rise of neoliberalism in Scotland, mainstream parties, British nationalism, and Yes Scotland’s and Better Together’s respective referendum strategies. The authors are leading activists in the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) which attempts to fight for a radical vision for independence. The book...

DJ Sprinkles, Re-issue out now

Dir Ken Loach, Out now

Dir Ryan Coogler, Out 6 June

Inspired by true events, the film Belle follows the case of a young mixed race woman named Dido Elizabeth Belle, who is raised by an aristocratic family in 18th century England. She was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and an enslaved African woman. Dido is raised by her aunt and her uncle,...

Playhouse Theatre, Until 23 August

Turner Contemporary, Margate. Until 21 September

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Until 2 November

When Cyril Lionel Robert (CLR) James died in May 1989, he was a seemingly marginal and inconsequential figure. His death in a tiny flat in Brixton, south London, appeared symbolic. Supposedly “socialist” regimes were collapsing all across Eastern Europe. As James was taking his final breath, protests were erupting in Tiananmen Square against the tyranny...

Magnus Hirschfeld was central to the German gay rights movement at the turn of the 20th century. From the 1890s to the 1930s he was a member of numerous committees, societies, campaigns and institutes that together can be said to be the first major gay rights movement that involved thousands of people, and usually with...

This volume of essays was initially conceived as a collection of contributions and articles (or “Festschrift” to give such a work its proper name) in honour of the Marxist professor, writer and historian Andrew Hemingway to mark his retirement from the Department of History of Art at University College London. But the editors developed a...

Leon Trotsky and his wife, fellow revolutionary Natalia Sedova, arrived in Norway in June 1935 after their supporters persuaded the newly-elected Norwegian Labour government to give them asylum. They came from France where the Popular Front government and trade union leaders were trying to control the rising tide of militancy and wanted Trotsky out of...