Building the revolution
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I bought tickets back in November for the “Building the revolution” show at the Royal Academy and was given a 10 am admission time.
Art
Another side of the Tyne
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Lawrie Coombs applauds the work of Newcastle’s Side Gallery
John Berger: art and politics
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Whatever the vagaries of his political positions and assessments since the early 50s (including a softness on the Stalinist regimes, a huge silence about the Nazi death camps, and a disposition to support essentially feudal resistance movements to capital) John Berger remains an important resource in thinking about the nature of oppression and its relationship to art.
Reviews: John Palmer; SWP; Foley; Wates and Knevvit; Pauline Kael; Davis and Huttenback; Liebman; Marquand
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Martin Thomas reviews "Europe without America", by John Palmer.
Clive Bradley reviews "Revolutionary Rehearsals", published by the SWP's Bookmarks.
Stan Crooke reviews "Ireland, the case for British disengagement", by Conor Foley.
Neil Stonelake reviews "Community Architecture", by Nick Wates and Charles Knevvit.
Belinda Weaver reviews "State of the Art", by Pauline Kael.
Rhodri Evans reviews "Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: the Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912", by Lance Davis, Robert Huttenback, and Susan Gray Davis.
Gerry Bates reviews "Leninism Under Lenin", by Marcel Liebman.
Bryan Edmands reviews "Thank you, Mr Moto", by John P Marquand.
Chronicler of Russian life
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Alexander Rodchenko, having achieved international acclaim as an avant-garde painter, sculptor and graphic designer, took up the cause of photography in 1924 with novel and thrilling results.
Arts against cuts
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The Arts Against Cuts collective is a group of students, lecturers, artists, cultural workers and those interested in creative resistance, organising in a non-hierarchical structure against both the cuts and the ever increasing use of the arts and culture as a tool of ideological and political control.
Arts Against Cuts: "There is a long standing relationship between the aesthetic and emancipatory politics"
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Forum: Poll tax; Trotsky on Zionism; Hitler, Stalin, and art; and symposium on the nature of the Stalinist states
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Workers' Liberty 14 Forum section
How not to fight the poll tax; Trotsky on Zionism; Hitler, Stalin, and art.
A symposium on the nature of the Stalinist states: Martin Thomas; Stan Crooke; Duncan Chapple, Pete Keenlyside, and others; Sean Matgamna.
Art and the Russian revolution
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Most interested Westerners hold the idea that art is 'free', a metter for the artist expressing him or herself without restrictions.
Build for battle in January
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We were discussing taking some kind of radical direct action for a long time before we went into occupation.