John Molyneux

John Molyneux is a socialist, activist and writer. He is a member of the Irish and British SWP.He formerly lectured at Portsmouth University,but now lives in Dublin. and writes mainly, but not exclusively, about Marxist theory and art.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Rubens — His Brush was the Sword of Counter Revolution

A new exhibition of paintings by Rubens needs to be illuminated with some history, writes John Molyneux Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a ...

Revolt that shaped a new kind of art

THE NEW film Girl With A Pearl Earring about the Dutch artist Vermeer has provoked interest in the life and society of the great Dutch pain...

Review of "Rembrandt's Eyes"

Rembrandt's Eyes Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London 1999, 750pp, ISBN 0-713-99384-7 Simon Schama Reviewed by: John Molyneux PRIDE GOE...

Preface to "Arguments for Revolutionary Socialism"

This booklet consists of a selection of articles written as a weekly column for the British left wing newspaper, Socialist Worker. The colum...

Picasso and African Art

In debates about racism and multiculturaliosm questions of civilization and the development of “culture” are never slow to surface. Underpin...

Marxism and Terrorism

The forces of reaction have always tried to associate revolution, and by extension revolutionaries and Marxists, with terrorist acts of the ...

Preface to ‘What is the Real Marxost Tradition?’

What is the Real Marxist Tradition? was initially written in 1983, for a specific occasion – the 100th aniversary of Marx’s death – and with...

Expression of an age

The US artist Jackson Pollock has long been controversial. John Molyneux explains why this is so in his review of a new exhibition of his wo...

Is there a Marxist aesthetic?

Sinead Kennedy’s introduction to the Marxist approach to art (Socialist Worker 15 July) was very good. She is right about the need to comb...

The Emin Phenomenon or the Phenomenal Emin

Tracy Emin is a new phenomenon and consequently, like many new phenomena in the past, is met with widespread incomprehension, misunderstandi...

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