On Sunday, Dundee plays host the second annual Leftfest, a one-day festival of political radicalism with music, spoken word, food and drink, and stalls from trade unions, local traders and campaign groups. The Leftfest Dundee Collective write for Conter about the values of such a project, its challenges and why people should come along and learn from it….

A recent arts industry report posed the question: where are all the working class people in the visual arts? Reflecting on Glasgow's biggest festival for contemporary art, Hailey Maxwell concludes that, if anything, exploitation and inequality in the world art itself reflect British society as a whole...

Whether it's the International Brigades or the Cuban revolutionaries, music has always played a pivotal role in developing the ideas of any radical political movement. In the first of several radical arts guides, editor Jonathan Rimmer picks out some key artists, labels and projects with an anti-capitalist or anti-fascist ethos...