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Book Review: Eugene V Debs: A Graphic Biography
A graphic reminder of a US labour movement pioneer inspires
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
Eugene V Debs: A Graphic Biography
by Paul Buhle, Steve Max and Dave Nance
(Verso Books, £11.99)
FOR anyone bored with people on the left in this country banging on about Trump rather than enthusing about the growing socialist movement in the US, this book will be welcome. It’s not just about a significant leader of the country’s radical movement but a reminder of its rich radical history.
Eugene V Debs, like many radicals in the US, was from a French background and this graphic biography celebrates the role that immigrants played in the socialist movement.
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