CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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MARTIN HALL welcomes a history of the European class struggle that demonstrates how the working class is the instrument of social change in capitalist society
Artists protest against the military dictatorship in February 1968. In the picture, Tonia Carrero, Eva Wilma, Odete Lara, Norma Bengell and Cacilda Becker
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Radical Chains: Why Class Matters
Chris Nineham, Zer0 Books, £14.99
IT would be an understatement to say that Radical Chains: Why Class Matters is needed on the left.
Chris Nineham’s unequivocal message that the working class is both the instrument of social change in capitalist society and an objective social relation, rather than a sociological category or identity.
The book argues that class is the defining division in capitalism, and it shows that class struggle has played — and continues to play — a central role in history during the capitalist period, in spite of attempts across the political spectrum to efface or downplay these struggles.
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