I must be mad. No sooner have I finished fundraising for agitprop musical The Liberty Tree, than I’m straight into fundraising for The Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival.

To be a left-wing cultural activist these days seems to mainly involve being a beggar. It might be irritating to constantly receive crowd-funding emails begging you to donate your hard-earned dosh for “rewards” of dubious value but, believe me, it’s no fun to be constantly sending them out either.

Yet I believe it is crucial that as a movement we find the energy, and the money, to maintain and promote an a different cultural narrative to the “there is no alternative” neoliberal story that for 30 years has been so relentlessly promoted by the mainstream media.