The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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The revolution that shocked revolutionaries
GORDON PARSONS recommends a new book which gives a graphic account of the rise and fall of the Paris Commune
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
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune Of 1871
by John Merriman
(Yale University Press, £10.99)
THIS blow-by-blow account of the rise and fall of the 1871 Paris Commune is, at times, almost too painful to read.
The barbaric savagery employed by the bourgeoisie in annihilating the attempt — for the first time in the modern history of the working class — to organise a government in the name of a new social order can only have been surpassed by the nazis.
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