Cosy games' have grown in popularity in recent years but can they be more than mere escapism? Dr Stephanie Farnsworth ...

From Back to the Future, Far and Away, Ned Kelly, and beyond, the Irish diaspora on the Anglo-colonial frontier has long benefitted from the plucky underdog treatment in Hollywood. And, until Sinners ...

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I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

The arts are in crisis. Access to the means of cultural production is increasingly relegated to those who can independently sustain themselves against a backdrop of austerity and the degradation of ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

All of us in Reel News have been trade union activists for years. We realised no one was systematically publicising workers’ disputes. Reel News came out of indie media – the idea of activists ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

After a year of change in South America, Cameron Baillie profiles the ‘new right’ leaders threatening to deluge the 2020s’ ‘pink wave’ – and the communities resisting them Then, in November, Noboa ...

In the weeks leading up to Together for Palestine, we concert organisers kept on encountering the same exhilarating problem: the show was expanding faster than any of us had anticipated. Word spread, ...

For a few decades in the late 20th century, squatting was a critical avenue enabling artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers to start out, compromising on secure housing for time, finances, space ...