Philip Glass’s opera is based on Mahatma Gandhi’s early life in South Africa during the Indian minority’s fight for civil rights.
David Tennant and Liam Brennan star in a dramatisation of John Steinbeck’s novel about migrant workers in 1930s California.
Originally developed in 2004 for the National Theatre, Philip Ridley’s play is an attack on nationalism and homophobia – and the rise of the British National Party (BNP).
Women is a three part documentary beginning on International Women’s Day, looking at the women’s liberation movement from the 1970s to today.
The transAtlantic slave trade of the 18th century saw millions of Africans forcibly displaced to America and the Caribbean.
A new book uses one person’s life to look at aspects of working class history in the last 80 years.
Socialist Worker has a pair of tickets for the upcoming production of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard at the National Theatre in London.
Paul Nash’s first oil painting, ironically titled We Are Making a New World, is a stark and eerie vision of a landscape ravaged by the First World War.
When was the last time you went to the cinema and watched working class people defying bailiffs trying to repossess their home?
McCullin is famous for his photographs of the Vietnam war. But he also photographed many of the other conflicts that have shaped the modern era.
Buffy Sainte-Marie has always been a surprising, talented and radical artist.
Listening to Gil Scott-Heron’s new CD is a bittersweet experience.
