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Opinion: Independent and DIY Venues Offer Us Steps Towards a Lived Socialist Culture

With pandemic support and mutual aid groups kicking into gear around the country, Luke Cartledge argues the spaces from which they operate - largely DIY community initiatives - should be part of the infrastructure of socialist organising.

Long Read: Literally Just Vibing: How Music Streaming Platforms Manipulate History, Legacy and Emotion

In this long read, music-maker Fred M-G takes a closer look at how the "sonic wallpaper" curated by the music streaming services upon which we now rely flattens and sanitises music's history and potency.

Art School Strikers Are Turning the Tide on Apathy

Striking art school workers are building new networks of solidarity, defying historically low trade union engagement and a professional self-image that is widely exploited by university bosses.

Report: Opera de Paris en Grève: The Ballet Company Striking Back Against Macron’s Pension Reforms

With strikes against sweeping pension reforms now passing the six-week mark, French arts workers are engaged in a struggle not only to secure their own futures, but the future of the country's cultural sector. Nic Murray reports.

Trash Cultures

Ash Sarkar and James Butler are joined on #NovaraFM by Bridget Minamore and Joseph Guthrie to discuss "low" culture, "high" theory, memory and resistance.

3 Reasons the Campaign to #SaveFabric is Political

Having had its licence revoked, the iconic nightclub Fabric has started crowdfunding its legal challenge. Many have been hasty to point to council cuts or gentrification to explain the closure, but there's a wider political context at play.

Knowledge is Power: Lessons from Dystopian Fiction

32 years since George Orwell’s predictions of the future failed to come to pass, and our world seems to be getting more dystopian every day - but of all society's dystopian elements, which should worry us most?

Tears of Oil: The Case of Ashraf Fayadh, Condemned to Death in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday to widespread condemnation. Meanwhile Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh is currently fighting a death sentence for apostasy, supported by artist groups rallying against tyranny.

Arts Strike Now! 5 Reasons Cultural Workers are Boycotting the Zabludowicz Collection

Amid the erosion of public arts funding, the private Zabludowicz Collection has stepped up as the post-austerity arts pathbreaker. Notorious for its complicity in Israeli militarism, it is now the target of a boycott by cultural workers.