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The Football Lads Alliance made its shocking appearance in June with a 10,000-strong march against Muslim “extremism”. Brian Richardson looks at the history of football and racist organisations.

After years of war in parts of Africa and the Middle East — with its ensuing famine and economic collapse — a mass of people are on the move in search of safety and sanctuary. The EU policy of Fortress Europe is designed to keep them out. The result is a human catastrophe, as we...

YermaNational Theatre Live Encore screeningsOne of last year’s theatre highlights returned to London’s Young Vic this summer for a sellout run culminating in a live broadcast to cinemas on 31 August. Repeat showings throughout September will enable audiences around the country to see Billy Piper’s shattering performance in this new adaptation of Frederico Garcia Lorca’s...

The refugee crisis has disappeared from newspaper front pages over the last year. For those of us keeping up with the story through alternative sources, it is still very much a grim reality that continues today as thousands risk their lives seeking the shores of the EU every day. Nadine Shah was spurred on by...

Channel 4’s The State is a four-part drama following two British men and two British women who decide to go to Syria and join Islamic State. As you can expect, the subject matter itself is incredibly divisive. The harrowing drama was not an easy watch, but an important one. The first episode feels like an...

This is a touching account of the life of a formidable politician, known for his rebellious nature and principled character. From his very early days living in a mining town, Skinner was conscious of class and inequality in society. He describes growing up in a political household, where he had “politics for breakfast, lunch and...

This debut from Francis Lee is a love story between Romanian farmhand Gheorghe and farm owner’s son Johnny. It is filmed on location in Keighley, south of the Yorkshire Dales. There is certainly nothing subtle about this film. From the opening shot Lee sets out to describe in an uncompromising way some of the poverty,...

This is a celebration of the work of Black American artists in the 1960s and 1970s. While the art on display is inspired by the mass Civil Rights Movement in the US during that time it is incredibly poignant that the issues raised remain so relevant today. Norman Lewis’s America the Beautiful, for example, is...

Since the publication of Philip Larkin’s Selected Letters back in 1992 we have seen a determined effort to play down his political views so that he can be restored to his place as a much-loved national poet. The Larkin exhibition at Hull University, part of the City of Culture celebrations, is an example of this....

The editors of this collection describe reading Marx’s Capital as a political process and certainly Marx intended that his work would become a weapon in the hands of the working class. Reading ‘Capital’ Today does not obviously emerge from any political practice, but rather from readings by authors mostly better known for their academic contributions...

Read this to be inspired by stories of city-based resistance in some of the most difficult conditions possible. The editors want to confront the idea that capitalism is triumphant everywhere and instead look at examples where “the hegemony of ruling classes is being directly challenged by mass organisations”. Their examples range from Africa to Asia...

Alex Vitale condemns the politics of austerity for creating the circumstances in which heavy-handed policing becomes the accepted means of controlling a poor, marginalised majority in a system which exists to serve the 1%. It surprised me how far the US police and criminal justice system have been militarised. Local forces hold extensive, state-funded, stores...