Culture/Reviews
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Memories of Alan Hardman, Militant cartoonist and printer
We first met Alan Hardman in the late 1960s through some comrades living in Maidenhead. He was already a confirmed…
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TV Review: Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Gary Clark, recently retired secretary of CWU Scotland No.2 branch Watching the very moving four-part drama on ITV, no one…
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Review: Banksy’s Glasgow exhibition
Lynda McEwan Banksy, that ever elusive British graffiti artist, had an exhibition in Glasgow recently, showing, for the first time,…
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Film review: Oppenheimer – a skilful, poignant indictment of nuclear weapons, capitalism and imperialism
Lynda McEwan Christopher Nolan’s epic blockbuster movie Oppenheimer charts the career of Robert Oppenheimer, a Jewish American, theoretical physicist from…
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2021 in review: Capitalism is crisis – join the fight for socialist change
2021 was a very significant year for Socialist Party Scotland. We found growing support for our party and socialist programme.…
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Book review: The Struggle for World Socialism
Reviewed by Alec Thraves, Socialist Party England and Wales national committee Yes, at long last! Those four words will be…
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Arts and culture devastated by Covid crisis
Lynda McEwan Covid-19 is having a devastating effect on the creative industry in the UK. Already on the frontline for brutal…
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Robert Burns: of the people, for the people
The most accomplished poet and songwriter of Scotland, Robert Burns (1759-96), was ‘just’ a poor farmer from Ayrshire and later…
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JOKER: a welcome howl of rage at injustice
By Harvey Duke In Joker, Joaquin Phoenix as ‘Arthur’ has the face, and especially the eyes, of a man trapped…
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A review of Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari
By Lynda McEwan Darren McGarvey has invited us all on a Poverty Safari. Interspersing tales from an impoverished childhood with…
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