A brief history of the Teddy Boys
The post war youth subculture that became the subject of a moral panic.
In Remembrance of ‘Alternative Comedy’
Jeremy Hardy was part of a left-wing generation who transformed British comedy and will be sadly missed.
Review: Sorry to Bother You…
Boots Riley's film Sorry to Bother You (USA, 2018) is a breath of fresh air.
‘I was, I am, I will be’ – 100 years after the death of...
The deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht have haunted the imagination of the left for a century.
I Bring Her a Flower
On the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, we republish a poetic tribute to her written by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Review: Deportation Discs: A Public Hearing
A multimedia installation exposed the cruelty at the heart of the ‘hostile environment’.
Favourites of 2018: rs21 reviewers recommend…
Our reviewers recommend the music, films, books, exhibitions and TV they discovered in 2018.
Soon (In 48 Years’ Time)
Story written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1922, imagining a communist future
A Kestral for a Knave: fifty years on
Barry Hines's book A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the film Kes, was published fifty years ago this year, but it remains as relevant as ever.
16 August 1819
Rich Belbin reviews Mike Leigh's film Peterloo. The film tells the story of a moment of British history that is too often forgotten.