By Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all dayOvertime hours for bullshit paySo I can sit out here and waste my life awayDrag back home and drown my troubles awayIt’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten toFor people like me and people like you…Livin’ in the new worldWith an old soulThese rich men north ...
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Warning: This review contains a spoiler By Joe Fathallah, Cardiff West Socialist Party Snowpiercer is an American science fiction series broadcast by Netflix in the UK, starring the likes of Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connolly, and Sean Bean. It is mostly set in 2026, seven years after a quick-fix attempt to stop climate change through chemical injection into the atmosphere backfires ...
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Review of Black River by Louise Walsh By Scott Jones Aberfan, Hillsborough, Grenfell. Names synonymous with warnings ignored, corners cut and the disregard capitalism has for working class lives. There are parallels, too, between these disasters in how the media portrays victims and survivors. ‘Black River’, a novel by Louise Walsh, is about events after the Aberfan disaster. 116 people, ...
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Welsh update of Chekhov an engrossing tale of 1980s class conflict By Scott Jones The Cherry Orchard is set in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1982. Yes, that’s right. It’s a modern retelling of the original written by Anton Chekhov just before the first Russian revolution in 1905. And it’s brilliant. Action revolves around an old manor house on the west Wales ...
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Kate Jones reviews Iphigenia in Splott, written and directed by Gary Owen, Sherman Cymru theatre, Cardiff ‘An angry call for revolt’ Effie is a working class girl in an area of Cardiff hit hard by cuts. No work, no hope, shops boarded up, library and swimming pool closed, streets littered with dog shit. Is there nothing for her but getting ...
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