Here it is, a CD of the winners of the 10 winners of the 2019 and 2020 Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Awards, sponsored by the CWU and the the Musicians' Union. A snip at £5! Buy it here.....and get ready to enter the 2021 Award.....

Alan Dent argues that the Beatles' success shows how pop culture entrenches inequality in capitalist societies It’s widely accepted that the Beatles are one of the most successful international pop bands, if not the most successful. It ought to be possible, by studying the phenomenon they were, to grasp the…

As increasingly militarised police forces and emboldened white supremacists provoke and attack people of colour and their allies, Ciarán O'Rourke shows the relevance of Langston Hughes' political poetry “I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street,” recalled Langston Hughes of his first literary forays: songs…

Stuart Cartland criticises the jingoistic response to the BBC's decisions about Rule Britannia. Image above: Aboriginal prisoners, Australia If as a nation we are to be serious about addressing racism and legacies of oppression then the recent furore about the possibility of dropping Rule Britannia from the BBC's Last Night…