25 February 2025
Workers in the arts continue their fight to reverse decades of cuts in government funding. The Arts and Minds Campaign is calling for arts and literature to be restored to the schools core curriculum, and fully funded.
26 August 2024
Faced with cuts that threaten their future and that of their company, musicians in the Welsh National Opera have voted overwhelmingly for potential strike action. They are facing cuts that threaten their future and that of their company.
26 August 2024
A vital programme for young artists in Wales faces closure. Musicians and college staff are campaigning against this.
31 January 2024
ENO artists have suspended strike action in their pay and jobs dispute, pending further talks. But that’s only one step in their fight for the future of the company, which is being forced to move out of London in the name of “levelling up”.
12 September 2023
Youth clubs are under threat – to an even greater extent than many other services. This year’s Mercury Prize provided a reminder of their value.
13 March 2023
Musicians, concert goers and radio listeners have united to condemn the BBC’s decision to close the BBC Singers as part of a plan to cut 20 per cent of jobs in BBC orchestras and music ensembles.
7 June 2020
The world famous Abbey Road studios started recording again on 4 June. Musicans are actively working to get back to work safely and practically.
30 April 2020
On this May Day – Friday 1 May – with workers around the world unable to gather in numbers to celebrate the day, we invite all our readers to raise a glass in solidarity and sing the traditional Communist anthem, The Internationale.
16 April 2020
Ingenious online schemes are keeping skills alive, encouraging others to join in, and raising morale in difficult times.
A major contribution to the current celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth – and the 170th of the Communist Manifesto – has been the remarkable revival of a long-forgotten choral setting of passages from the book itself.
A Concert for Unity in Glasgow is set to help boost the renewed campaign to finally defeat separatism
Music and the Communist Idea
Conway Hall Ethical Society talk, Sunday 1 May, 6.00 pm
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
A perfect complement to the CPBML’s London May Day meeting: a talk by prominent musicologist Roderick Swanston illuminated by musical examples. See here for details and how to obtain tickets.
A Glasgow concert for unity formed part of the campaign to keep Britain together by promoting the No vote in the Scottish referendum.
Better Together
Adelaide’s, 209 Bath Street, G2 4HZ
Includes the Dalriada Quartet playing the world première of Eddie McGuire’s Unity Suite. More details to come on www.votenoborders.co.uk
All harmless fun? There’s another side to the Eurovision song contest, and it’s not pretty…
