Arts
25 June 2013
The new Superman film has already made millions, but it took his creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster decades to get paid
25 June 2013
Chagall’s paintings powerfully combine new and traditional artistic techniques, as Tate Liverpool’s new exhibition shows
11 June 2013
New film Behind the Candelabra shows the lengths the pianist Liberace went to hide his sexuality, and the liberation still to be won
11 June 2013
This is a ten part series based on Philippa Gregory’s historical novels The Cousin’s War, set during the 15th century Wars of the Roses
11 June 2013
In this radio drama ten year old Mark struggles to cope with his violent dad.
04 September 2012
A cavalry officer is galloping on a magnificent horse towards certain victory in a steeplechase, watched by the assembled cream of St Peterburg’s aristocracy.
02 March 2010
Unison members working in museums, galleries and libraries across Glasgow are to vote on strike action.
10 April 2007
Any parent or teacher will know that comprehensive education is under attack from New Labour – the emphasis these days is on tests, selection and league tables.
07 April 2007
GhostsDirected by Nick BroomfieldDVD (Tartan Video) £19.99
This excellent film by the documentary maker Nick Broomfield dramatises events leading up to the tragic drowning of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay three years ago.
07 April 2007
A new exhibition of the work of Glaswegian-born Jimmy Friell has just opened in London. Friell was acknowledged, in the 1930s, as one of Fleet Street’s finest cartoonists, and under the pseudonym Gabriel, he put his humour and his brilliant drawing skills to work for the Communist Party newspaper, the Daily Worker.
31 March 2007
Socialists have often felt rather uncomfortable with Futurism. This Italian art movement, founded in 1909, sang the praises of new technology, aeroplanes and the mass media – but it also exalted war and colonialism.
17 March 2007
Unless you’ve been in a coma for the last few months, you’ll have heard of The Gossip, a punk rock outfit from Arkansas. The band recently topped NME magazine’s "cool list" – or rather their lead singer Beth Ditto did, since she’s the one who’s been generating headlines.
17 March 2007
When Tom Fool, Franz Xaver Kroetz’s 1978 drama about the implosion of a working class family in West Germany, was staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow last November, audiences were astonished by the power of a play that gets right to the heart of family life under capitalism.
17 March 2007
Pan’s LabyrinthDVD, £18 (Optimum)I Saw Ben Barka Get KilledDVD, £19 (Artificial Eye)
Two of last year’s best political films are out now on DVD to buy or rent.
10 March 2007
Hot on the heels of Mark Wallinger’s State Britain installation in the Tate Britain, London, comes another exhibit from a major British artist addressing the issue of the Iraq war.
03 March 2007
Bradford International Film Festival9-24 March, National Media Museum
The 13th Bradford International Film Festival starts this month at the city’s National Media Museum.
03 March 2007
Welcome to a London blighted by binge drinking and street crime, where young girls are seduced into prostitution and elections are fixed.
03 March 2007
The legendary South African actor and playwright John Kani is touring Britain with a new "post-apartheid" play Nothing But The Truth.
24 February 2007
You have dedicated Aman Iman to "Peace, tolerance and development in the Sahara and the world of the oppressed." These are powerful sentiments and I can guess where they’ve come from, but why did you choose this particular dedication?
17 February 2007
A stunning piece of radical theatre, Things Of Dry Hours, opened at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre last week. Set in the Southern US state of Alabama during the 1930s, the play explores race, class and the impact of the Communist Party on the lives of ordinary working people.