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Alain Badiou

Syrian revolutionaries are using every weapon at their disposal to resist the regime of Bashar al-Assad – including cartoons. In the comic strip reproduced above, Bashar al-Assad tickles the sleeping dragon of sectarianism, only for it to swallow him whole. In this case, a picture paints a complex political situation. As the regime has heavily...

Writer Lolita Chakrabarti

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At the Tricycle Theatre, London, until 24 November

Directors Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall

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Release date: 2 November

Frankenweenie, Great Expectations, Argo, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Midnight's Children, Ginger and Rosa, No, Amour, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, The Central Park Five, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, 7 Psychopaths, Sightseers.

Woody Guthrie was born on 14 July 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. He died in 1967 in relative obscurity, having been hospitalised for the last 15 years of his life. Yet his music continues to be an inspiration for musicians from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Billy Bragg. The centenary of his birth has seen a flurry of new books, CDs and concerts celebrating his music.

Alan Sillitoe

Patrick Tyler

Recorded history in the Caribbean islands begins with slavery, when Christopher Columbus “discovered” that superior military technology would enable his soldiers to violently exploit the native Amerindians. Caribbean Workers’ Struggles, by Jamaican-born Richard Hart and available from the Socialist History Society, describes the development of labour relations, from slave labour to capitalist free labour through...

Barbara Kingsolver

Nirmalangshu Mukherji

Matthew Carr