‘Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel’ (1970) reveals the crushing reality of life and death in Nazi-occupied Ukraine – depicting the bitter struggle for survival against famine, deportations, executions, and terror.

Tishani Doshi’s poetry collection ‘Egrets, While War’ vividly captures the churning chaos of life today. Combining personal reflections, political critique, and cutting humour, her work faces head-on the horrors of the modern world, without falling into despair.

Art is a necessity of life which is kept shackled by the profit motive. Art is something which workers yearn for. But what really is art? And can it change the world? What is the relationship between art and revolution, and revolutionaries? In this talk from the RCP summer camp, Nelson Wan discusses all these questions.