JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Power to the people in the city of angels
GLYN ROBBINS recommends a book on a decade in which radical movements in Los Angeles brought protest to the fore and changed the political landscape forever
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The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
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ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
(Verso, £12.50)
LOS ANGELES may be where American myths are made, in the form of Hollywood films, but in this book Mike Davis and Jon Wiener show that it’s also a city of rebellion, where US capitalism has been consistently challenged by grassroots campaigns.
The city was at the vanguard of enduring social movements, demanding not just an end to racism, but violent policing, war, homophobia, sexism, environmental destruction, restrictions of public space and discriminatory housing and education.
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