Left Cultures, Issue 04

Left Cultures  will delve deep into the left’s cultural past to discuss gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art and poetry. Culture which has influenced and inspired an eclectic bunch of comrades to continue in this tradition by creating new cultural endeavours on the left today. Colliding together the past and present to celebrate the power and rich diversity of storytelling on the left with personal accounts, beautifully illustrated throughout.

In this issue:

Launched as a one-off, but now four issues deep, Left Cultures champions voices of the left, ‘whether that be Socialist, Communist, Anarchist or anything in between.’

Page by page, over 50 contributing writers from far and wide share stories of inspiration which range from the personal to the polemical. Each entry is accompanied by a commissioned full-page illustration. Issue by issue the magazine is building into a beautifully illustrated lexicon of the left.

This issue opens with a contribution by writer Jessie Jones about Radiohead, using her disappointment at its members’ political stances to discuss boycotting brands and individuals (art by Matt Johnson); by contrast, Lottie Brown recalls The Communards’ song ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’, and stating, ‘Class struggle lives within music.’ (art by Supermundane). But it’s not all music—there are paeons to the Paul Robeson, the Library and the Soviet concept of Agit Prop.