The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Britain’s Communists: The Untold Story – An Extract
From anti-fascist struggles in the 1930s to the peace movement, the trade unions to the student and women’s movements, JOHN GREEN show how communists played significant roles in promoting social and political progress in Britain
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Communists exist in the popular imagination, if at all, as marginal conspiratorial groups fomenting violent revolution and, while the Soviet Union still existed, working as its agents.
Novels like the James Bond thrillers helped perpetuate such images. In terms of who communists actually were or are, what they have done and how they have behaved, the majority will know very little if anything.
Many would probably laugh out loud if it were suggested to them that communists and communism have had tangible affects on their lives.
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