Working-class culture

4 Minutes

Culture

The Long Defeat is a win for working-class culture

PV October 4, 2024

Review by Dave McKee Three years after the release of his first full book of poetry, The Other Life, Toronto-based Patrick Connors published his second collection, The Long Defeat in May this year. Despite...

7 Minutes

Culture

Artist Liam Crockard challenges utopian visions of labour organizing

PV April 9, 2024

This month, People’s Voice is hosting its second Exiles from the Future fundraising art exhibition at Pumice Raft gallery in Toronto. Manden Murphy and Dave McKee spoke with Toronto artist Liam Crockard, whose work...

4 Minutes

Culture World

Poetry of exile and resistance

PV January 4, 2024

By Normand Raymond The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was followed by the first Arab-Israeli war. Under a hail of bombs, 6-year-old Mahmoud Darwish fled with his family to southern Lebanon,...

3 Minutes

Culture

Portugal: communists host huge cultural festival and WFDY meeting

PV October 7, 2021

By Bronwyn Cragg From September 1-5, members of the Europe and North America (CENA) region of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) convened in Portugal for an in-person meeting. The Young Communist League...