Photography Photography Instead of a thousand words LYNNE WALSH’S choice are photographers prepared to focus on the outcomes of the politics of exclusion
Appreciation Arts | Friday 05th Apr 2024 Appreciation ‘The traditions of the labour movement were inadequate to take the struggle further’
Monday 05th Jul 2021 A new tribute to the volunteers for liberty in Spain LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the Welsh international brigaders featured on a new banner that had its first outing last weekend
Tuesday 15th Jun 2021 ‘The sex trade teaches you that you’re not even human’ LYNNE WALSH reports from a recent webinar organised by Nordic Model Now! where contributors explored the best ways to support the vulnerable and traumatised women coerced into prostitution
Wednesday 19th May 2021 The legacy of the Levellers as pertinent as ever LYNNE WALSH reports on this year's Levellers’ Day
BOOKS Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 BOOKS The Fighter Fell in Love: A Spanish Civil War Memoir Engaging personal account of international brigader sheds new light on seminal conflict
INTERVIEW Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 INTERVIEW ‘Do anything to make the whole word listen’ The great folk artist and activist PEGGY SEEGER is about to release a new album and here she talks to Lynne Walsh about its themes and the importance of speaking out about women's oppression, the environment and the survival of the arts post-Covid
BOOKS Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 BOOKS Robins takes the biscuit LYNNE WALSH recommends an engaging graphic novel about sisterhood and the city
Saturday 13th Feb 2021 Escaping poverty and inequality is an ‘aspiration’ that can unite us Earlier this week John McDonnell chatted with feminist academic Selina Todd via Zoom about her new book on social mobility, and its themes of class, education and the struggle for a more egalitarian world. LYNNE WALSH reports
Monday 07th Dec 2020 ‘Capitalists tend to adopt technologies only as and when they suit their purposes’ LYNNE WALSH reports on the Future of Work event at the weekend, which saw a panel of expert speakers discuss automation, deskilling and the effects of Covid-19 on the workplace
Friday 04th Dec 2020 Claudia Jones made a way out of no way LYNNE WALSH reports on a meeting celebrating the huge contribution black communist Claudia Jones made to the struggle for socialism and racial equality in the US and in Britain
Tuesday 24th Nov 2020 One of the ‘world’s best-kept secrets’ on women’s rights Lynne Walsh talks to VIVIENNE HAYES of renowned charity the Women’s Resource Centre about the UN convention known as Cedaw – and why it deserves a higher profile