Friday, 27 October 2017

Lights! Camera! Revolution! - film from Russia and Cuba

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I've written before about the role of Trades Union Councils in promoting (or should that be fomenting) working class and left politi...
Monday, 4 September 2017

From Alexei to Jeremy, and much in between - Edinburgh Reviews 3 & 4

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Both of my final compilation roundups of Edinburgh festival shows have now been published in the Morning Star. The third one - Sayle, Spo...
Monday, 28 August 2017

Radical Angles with a Cutting Edge - Edinburgh reviews 2

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--> ...And the second of the group reviews of both International and Fringe shows was published in the Morning Star on Saturday....
Friday, 18 August 2017

Asylum. Immigration and Women - Edinburgh reviews 1

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Yesterday, the Morning Star published my reviews of four shows I've seen at this year's festivals. It is available here and covers...
Monday, 7 August 2017

Edinburgh's International Festival - for the elite, or for the masses?

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A little-known fact of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), is that it has always included on its board a repre...
Saturday, 5 August 2017

Rich pickings for the Culture Vulture - Edinburgh Festivals Preview

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It seems like some time since I posted anything vaguely cultural here, but that is about to change! Last Saturday our friends in the Mo...
Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Returning to the roots of MayDay's Cabarets

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--> Glasgow Friends of MayDay (GFoMD) have announced another stellar line-up for the sixth annual Great May Day cabaret celebrat...