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Stravinsky captured the spirit of the modernist movement. The Rite of Spring ballet, published in 1913, was decried as ‘childish barbarity’ by its bourgeois critics at the time. In reality, it only refracted the horrors that would unfold in the next four years of world war.
Recently, reformists like Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn have been putting forward the idea of a wealth tax. They claim this could easily raise billions in tax revenue. While their proposals are certainly popular, do they truly offer a way forward?
On the eve of the Autumn Budget, the bond markets – the investors who bankroll the British state – are getting jittery. The capitalists are losing faith in Labour’s ability to carry out the necessary cuts to ‘balance the books’. But what alternatives do they have?
Tech corporations and governments are pouring trillions into the ‘AI arms race’. But warning signs are flashing that this is all a massive speculative bubble, waiting to burst. This anarchic speculation is set to have a catastrophic impacts on the world economy.
After two centuries, Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ remains one of the most enduring works of Romantic and Gothic literature, defining much of modern science-fiction. Now, Del Toro’s excellent new adaptation shows it still has room to be developed and reinterpreted.
The BBC is a key component of the ruling class’ carefully-built state machinery. So, when two of its leading figures are forced to resign, this suggests that a hidden war is going on in the murky depths of the state, and paints a picture of an establishment in crisis.
Anton Chekhov’s influence on modern literature endures to this day. While best known for his dramatic works, Chekhov’s short stories masterfully portray the lives of ordinary people in 19th-century Russia – where seismic social transformations were taking place.
Zarah Sultana has come out forcefully against the institutions and allies of western imperialism, denouncing NATO and Zelensky. Such welcome words must be given flesh and blood, by mobilising workers against the warmongers in London and Washington.
This week, the warmongers in Starmer’s Westminster cabinet have been hysterically accusing the SNP-led government in Scotland of being a “threat to national security”. But are the SNP’s anti-imperialist credentials really what they are made out to be?
108 years ago today, Lenin and the Bolsheviks achieved the impossible: they led millions of workers and peasants in a successful socialist revolution. But which events, struggles, and ideas led to that victory? How did Lenin become Lenin?
At ‘Surviving Spycops’, a recent exhibition organised by women activists who were deceived into long-term relationships by undercover police officers, we caught up with communist artist and RCP activist Nicholas Baldion about his latest piece, ‘Police Spies Ruin Lives’.
Militancy and international solidarity, as seen across Europe recently, is not alien to the labour movement here in Britain. British workers have taken strike action to halt the imperialists’ war machine before: in the 1920 Jolly George cargo vessel incident.