Culture / Benjamin Zephaniah – lifelong champion of the oppressed

From the miners’ strike to Palestine, this working-class poet and author was steadfast in his opposition to British imperialism and its divide-and-rule tactics.

Civil liberties / Get ready for Day X: Julian Assange must be freed!

British judges have shown themselves only too ready to allow our ‘justice system’ to be used to persecute an innocent man for the ‘crime’ of real journalism.

Poetry / Poem: ‘Liberals’ & ’Death’

By Irish poet Kevin Higgins.

Poetry / Poem: They Say that Both Sides are to Blame?

Media lies keep the working class divided and weak. What's the way out?

Poetry / Poem: You’re A Comrade Still

by Rhiannon Owens-Sullivan

Poetry / Pat Adler : Poems from the Chinese revolution

USSR / Poem: Soviet Man

Although the poet’s life was snuffed out in defence of his motherland, Strelchenko’s immortal work lives on, a beacon of light illuminating the power of Soviet socialism.

Poetry / Poem: Of Mine and Me