Phil Rudge

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Fighting against compromise

Andy Barrett is a writer and performer based in Nottingham. He was artistic director of the Touch and Go theatre company for two years and he helped set up and organise the successful arts project, Alive Arts, in Nottingham. He is currently touring with two pieces he has written and performs in. Phil Rudge spoke to him after a performance of Epic at a Revolutionary Communist Party conference, Where are all the heroes?, in London last week.

Mummified ideology

Phil Rudge reviews Red square, black square - Organon for revolutionary imagination by Vladislav Todorov (1995, pp200)

Human contradiction

From the debate surrounding the novels of Irvine Welsh, Phil Rudge argues that under today’s cultural conditions only artists who choose the lines of most resistance are able to even approach a committed literature

Profound commitment

Exciting encounters

Phil Rudge reviews solo guitar improvisations 1975-1977 (Domestic and public, CD, Emanem 1995) and Improvisation: its nature and practice in music (The British Library, 1992, 2nd ed) by Derek Bailey

Olympic anathema

Pay-back time

Artistic poverty for capitalism’s sake

First modern sport

Phil Rudge reviews Anyone but England - cricket and the national malaise by Mike Marqusee, (Verso Press 1995, pp273)

Life in the jungle

Eat football, sleep football, drop dead

Topsy-Turvy

Phil Rudge reviews William Morris (the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington); William Morris: questioning the legacy (Crafts Council Gallery, Pentonville Road, Islington); William Morris (talk by Tony Benn, at WM Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow)

Two worlds collide

Phil Rudge reviews Bartleby by Herman Melville (Penguin 1996, pp47)

Why so shy?

Thousands of revolutionary workers from Turkey and Kurdistan took to the streets for the London May Day march