Ian Parks grew up in a South Yorkshire mining family - as his new volume of poetry The Exile House hits the shelves, Jody Porter finds out his sources of inspiration.
This weekend sees a unique celebration of cinema at Glasgow's Southside Film Festival
An expose of the military-industrial complex shows how its actions grease the transfer of resources from the poorest to the richest globally
The Morning Star's weekly poetry column, edited by Jody Porter.

