Appetite for deconstruction
Album review: The Ultra Vivid Lament Manic Street Preachers Released on 10 September Sony/Columbia ★★★★ by Simon Whittle · “Words wage war, meanings being missed,” sings James Dean ...
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Jara remembered in song
Album Review: Even In Exile by James Dean Bradfield. Released 14 August on MontyRay LP/CD/digital. ★★★★★ by Simon Whittle · Victor Jara, the Chilean musician, teacher, poet and playwright ...
Alasdair Gray: art, literature should represent ‘the most necessary and typical people’
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray died in December. Here, Andrew Givan offers a tribute and a recollection · It was a cosy wee pub in Glasgow that was hosting a special event of writers doing ...
Seafarers who took on fascists are honoured with new Glasgow memorial
The Glasgow Shipping branch of the RMT union recently hosted a gathering of local, national and international supporters at the unveiling of a plaque and statue on the banks of the Clyde, in memory ...
All that is solid melts into thin air
Book review: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek. Published by Allen Lane, 2018 • review by Colin Fox • I read Slavoj Žižek’s new book Like a Thief in Broad Daylight in Venice ...
Glam politicos mark 50 years of QMU
by Voice Reporter • Glam provocateurs Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues will mark 50 years of the Queen Margaret Union (QMU) building in Glasgow with a special gig at the venue on 30 November. The QMU ...
Anti-fascist techno hip hop punks head to Edinburgh
by Voice Reporter • Moscow Death Brigade (MDB) is an anti-fascist techno/rap/punk phenomenon from Russia that plays ‘Circle Pit Hip-Hop’. They’re a burning Molotov of electronic music, ...
A beautiful protest in ugly times
Album review: Resistance is Futile by Manic Street Preachers. Released on Columbia Records CD/DL/LP on 13 April ★★★★★ • by Simon Whittle • It’s been four years since the Manics ...
Ursula K. Le Guin: ‘Source to nourish the uncolonised mind’
by Scott Macdonald • I generally do not weep when my heroes die. I do for Ursula K. Le Guin, speculative fiction writer, poet, scholar and genius, gone at the age of 88. Tears of joy that her ...
In Momentumland, Jeremy Corbyn won the election
Book review: The Corbyn Effect, edited by Mark Perryman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart • by Colin Fox • Had you not known better before reading this book you would have thought Jeremy ...
Scottish Socialist Voice 