
A Weapon in the Struggle
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For over seventy years, the Communist Party of Great Britain had an extraordinary impact on British cultural life, exercising an influence quite out of proportion to its size or political importance. Many art forms were revitalised, others profoundly changed, new ones established or shaped by groups and individuals associated with the party, who brought to the realm of cultural production - whether in music, film, theatre or literature - a dynamism and vision that helped to lay the foundations for a new radical culture, a progressive avant garde in which the struggle was always to produce a culture for and of the people, in the front line of the battle of ideas.
The distinguished contributors to this volume - the first serious study of the subject - draw on new research to recover the fascinating histories of the artists, poets, musicians, film-makers and cultural visionaries of the period, placing them in a broader historical context and providing an invaluable introduction to British social and cultural history in the twentieth century.
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1. James Barke: A Great-hearted Writer, a Hater of Oppression, a True Scot by H. Gustav Klaus
2. To Disable the Enemy: the Graphic art of the Three Jameses by Robert Radford
3. Heirs to the Pageant: Mass Spectacle and the Popular Front by Mick Wallis
4. Notes From the Left: Communism and British Classical Music by Richard Hanlon and Mike Waite
5. Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s by Maroula Joannou
6. An Intellectual Irrelevance? Marxist Literary Criticism in the 1930s by Hanna Behrend
7. King Street Blues: Jazz and the Left in Britain in the 1930s - 1940s by Kevin Morgan
8. The Boys Round the Corner: the Story of Fore Publications by Andy Croft
9. The Edinburgh People's Festival,1951-54 by Hamish Henderson
10. The World's Ill-Divided': the Communist Party and Progressive Song by Gerald Porter
11. The Sunshine of Socialism: the CPGB and Film in the 1950s by Bert Hogenkamp
Afterword by Paul Hogarth
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