DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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An outstanding history of the CPB
PHIL KATZ recommends an accessible and painstakingly researched history written by an educator, agitator and organiser
A huge crowd gathered outside the British Museum, to hear Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, make a speech about Aid to Russia, 1941
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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 gleam of socialism: Britain’s Communist Party 1920-2020
Robert Griffiths, Praxis Press, £25
ROBERT GRIFFITHS is the first general secretary of a Communist Party to write a party history.
The book aims to do three things: to speak to the growing number of new joiners; to deal in facts, which are sometimes uncomfortable for the party but always very uncomfortable for the ruling class; and to locate the party in a historical continuity which demonstrates that Marxism is a world outlook of the working class, that also has deep roots in British popular history.
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