CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Keywords that matter for the left from a critical Marxist
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
Keywords for a New Left
by Ian Parker
(Zero Books, £17.99)
CRITICAL psychologist Ian Parker is emeritus professor at Leicester University and is a prolific left academic, having penned over 30 books, some on radical research methods, and numerous academic works.
A brilliant academic and highly committed “psy,” he is a political activist of four decades standing, giving the lie to the claim that being an academic and an activist is mutually exclusive.
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