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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The moving sleeve notes of Woody Plays Woody were written by Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III, the son of the luminous trumpeter Woody Shaw, born in Laurinbug, North Carolina, in 1944 and who died on the New York subway in May 1989.
All compositions on the album were recorded in live performance at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner jazz club in 1977 (with Opec recorded at the same venue in 1981), and with Woody were some of the prime musicians of his generation, including drummer Victor Lewis, bassist Stafford James, pianists Larry Willis and Mulgrew Miller, trombonist Steve Turre and Carter Jefferson playing soprano saxophone.
Barely in his twenties, Woody was invited by alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy to work with him in Europe.
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