Left Cultures (Issue 3)

 Left Cultures is a contemporary space to champion all kinds of voices on the Left, whether that be Socialist, Communist, Anarchist or anything in between.

The Left has always been fizzing with ideas to change society and Left Cultures  celebrates the Left’s cultural past, discussing gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art and poetry. It does this by asking culture creators practicing today who are willing to stand up and fight for their beliefs to tell a personal story of how culture from the past has influenced and inspired them. All the points of reference from both past and present come together to make a wonderfully rich, diverse and beautifully illustrated lexicon of Left Culture.

As Tony Benn said ‘there is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So, toughen up, bloody toughen up’.

In Left Cultures 3 there's over 50 stories discussing a dazzling array of past and present cultural moments to create a Lexicon of the Left, fully illustrated throughout.

CONTENTS: Cable Street Mural / Cassetteboy / The Prodigy / Not Only Bread, We Need Roses Too / Stroud Red Band / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / The Politics of the Page / Red Sunday School / Athens Memories, London Streets / Why I'm Not A Liberal / I Love You, Sharply / Alsatoor / Joel Lane's Carrier Bag / USA Odyssey / Paris Commune / Domitilla Barrios / Bampa / My Journey Into The Archive / The Mouse and The Grapes of Wrath / Silvio in Tehran / Maggie Made Me Hardcore / The Deepest Roots Take Time to Uncover / The Press Cafe / Doing It for the Culture? / Who Does Not Envy With Us Is Against Us / Ragged Cinema / Dad Taught Me Not to Be an Arsehole / Watering the Seed / Palestinian Cinema / Ben O'Bills the Luddite / The Commoners Choir / Wag to the Future / Walking Towards the Impossible / Different Ways of Seeing, Different Ways of Being / Das Lied von Der Moldau / Chasing Whispers / Between Watford Gap and the Dole Queue / Ranting, Rhyming, Revolting / Start Your own Social Club / What Our Grandparent Gave Us / Class and Gender / The Internationale / Not All Heroes Wear Capes / Imagination as a Muscle / Christmas, Christmas, in Sleuthing Land / Tories Without Privilege / The Power of Arms in Columbia / Ronnie / Non Stop Erotic Cabaret / Seize the Day / London Recruits and Lifelong Friendship