DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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The political cul-de-sac of Trotskyism
JOHN GREEN recommends an insightful analysis of a movement driven by dogmatism and a personality cult
Leon Trotsky in 1918
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STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
The Twilight of World Trotskyism
By John Kelly
(Routledge, £44.99)
JOHN KELLY’S new book on Trotskyism could not appear at a more opportune moment.
Faced with an economic and political system struggling to maintain its global hegemony, the left has rarely been offered such an opportunity to present an alternative.
However, since the Bolshevik Revolution, the left has been divided on how best to build a socialist alternative.
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