In 1967 a little-known chapter in the history of the anti-apartheid movement began. Radical students from London universities, mostly socialists, travelled to South Africa to take part in illegal activities against the regime.
Salford-based hip-hop duo Class Actions return with their latest single "Rip Up The Sun". The track doesn’t stop short at attacking the newspaper—it mounts a scathing onslaught on Rupert Murdoch’s entire empire.
Picturing Politics is a free exhibition at the People’s History Museum in Manchester that charts the history of the political poster in 20th century Britain.
Studio Strike, a radical artists’ collective, is holding a series of events in London to mark the 100th anniversary of the famous "bread and roses" strike by US textile workers.
Black & Blue is a new literary publication that aims to bring a radical and socialist perspective to drama, prose, poetry and other forms of writing.
The Irish-American dramatist and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill is widely considered the father of modern American theatre. His most famous play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, has just opened at the Apollo Theatre in London.
Günter Grass, the German writer and Nobel laureate, has been in the headlines recently for his poem "What Must Be Said".
This new radio series sees presenter Neil MacGregor exploring the world at the time of William Shakespeare by examining the history of 20 objects from that period.
It’s a brave band who opens an album with a seven minute dirge attacking the venality and hypocrisy of a swathe of early popes.
A festival celebrating the works of maverick Marxist composer Conlon Nancarrow takes place at London’s Southbank Centre this weekend.
I had distinctly mixed feelings when I read that the new series of Mad Men on Sky attracted 47,000 viewers, compared to a whopping 2.9 million for the first part of Channel 4’s The Undateables, which looks at the love lives of disabled people.
The Tate Modern gallery in London unveiled its summer blockbuster exhibition last week—a retrospective of Damien Hirst, the infamous "Young British Artist" whose work shook up the art scene in the 1990s.
