“Manifest Proletkunst” (Manifesto of Proletarian Art), a text written by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg, published in Kurt Schwitters' periodical Merz #2 in April 1923 (Hannover, p.24-25), with ...
The mixture of brutal concrete facades with antique-style columns was nicknamed ‘Red Dorica’ in the 1920s-1930s - a genuine “revolutionary” style. But where can you find such buildings these days? The ...
It is a long time now since the avant-garde socialist intelligentsia framed, in more or less rounded form, the aims of the historical struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and since ...
Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers). In the second part of ...
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question, by Nick Hubble Leo Mellor on a work that explores a group of writers for whom questions about time, selfhood and reality led not to introspection or ...
On November 2, 1977, closing in on the sixtieth anniversary of the Russian revolution, the French historian Georges Haupt gave a provocative talk at the Fernand Braudel Center in Binghamton, New York.
BACK in the nineties, a novelist practically had to write novels about a gentleman standing at the top of a flight of stairs with a sword in his hand, his shirt open at the throat, and a bandage ...
The wrongheaded but ubiquitous notion that the Republican Amerikaner Trump base is the (um, white) “working-class” drawn to “populism” has been disproven in study after study showing that the ...
Alice Neel, Mike Gold, 1952. © The Estate of Alice Neel Courtesy (Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner) Is it time to release Michael Gold from his ...
An ode to one of the greatest working-class art forms of our time. Bayley fights IYO SKY for the WWE Women’s Championship during Night Two at Lincoln Financial Field on April 7, 2024, in Philadelphia, ...