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The return of revolution

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Socialist Review Archive

Sudan: “Revolution has changed people’s mindset”

Marwa Kessinger is a Sudanese activist. She spoke to Socialist Review about the movement that has erupted over the past few months.
08 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

A Hidden Landscape Once a Week

The decades of the music press described in this book are a world away from what we get now — the whim of a click and unified by nothing but competition. The book derives from discussions and interviews provoked by a conference convened by Mark Sinker entitled Underground/Overground: the Changing Politics of UK Music-Writing 1968-85....
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

Five things to do or see this month

The Migrant FestivalIkon Gallery, Birmingham, 30 May to 2 JuneThe Migrant Festival celebrates Birmingham’s diverse roots, welcoming new arrivals to the city. This year’s programme includes designer Osman Yousefzada’s fashion parade, a performance by Syrian Ood Player, Rihab Azar from Celebrating Sanctuary and a tour of the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) exhibition Handsworth Self Portrait:...
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

Avengers: Endgame

2019 marks the year of Avengers: Endgame the final instalment in Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). After the previous film Avengers: Infinity War audiences were left with the losses of many characters and the uncertainty of what was to come. Endgame is a three-hour epic that pulls audiences through every emotion there...
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest

This year is the 200th anniversary of the massacre of peaceful protestors at Saint Peter’s Field in Manchester. The People’s History Museum is marking the anniversary with their exhibition “Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest”. The aim of the exhibition is to tell the story of the massacre and examine its relevance today. In 1819 a peaceful...
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing

This is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of what I think is one of the most exciting and thought provoking artists around. Like all great art there is much more to it than just the initial response to how it looks; it has layer upon layer of meaning as well as layer upon layer...
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

The German Revolution: Expressionist prints

Marking the centenary of the 1918-19 revolution in Germany, Glasgow’s Hunterian gallery has on display an impressive and wide-ranging selection of etchings, lithographs and woodcuts from the wave of printmaking in Germany during the first two decades of the 20th century, as well as works representing key influences on this movement. Although involving various groups,...
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

Mary Quant

For their latest exhibition, the V&A invites the viewer to “discover how Mary Quant launched a fashion revolution on the British high street”. The R-word features heavily throughout, used to describe everything from her use of coloured tights to a prescient view of the sweeping social change which characterised the 1960s. Certainly, Quant operated differently...
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story

It is interesting that, after many years of media obsession with serial killers, a new book, opera and TV documentary share an emphasis on the social conditions and attitudes that made some women more vulnerable to assault and allowed the killers to get away with it for so long. Hallie Rubenhold’s book The Five uncovers...
07 May 2019
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Reviews & Culture

Germany’s Hidden Crisis

Germany dominates Europe, so news in April that German business confidence had fallen for a seventh month in eight and that the government had halved its growth forecast for 2019 to 0.5 percent suggests there is more than Brexit weighing on Europe’s economic prospects. The German working class remains Europe’s most powerful. Yet Germany’s equivalent...
07 May 2019
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Reviews & Culture

Glasgow 1919

1919 saw the world in turmoil. Emerging exhausted from the slaughter of the First World War, ordinary people across the globe were questioning how society was organised and working class people, inspired by the flaming light of the Russian Revolution of 1917, were not just demanding fundamental change; they were determined to fight for it....
07 May 2019
Reviews & Culture

The Border

The Brexit vote in June 1916 reignited the historically contentious issue of the Irish border. As the only land border between the EU and Britain it became the focal point of arguments about a withdrawal agreement, encapsulated in the “Backstop” proposal for Northern Ireland, the purpose of which was to ensure the continuation of the...
07 May 2019