STEVE JOHNSON recommends a beautiful album of songs that celebrate summer, from May Day onwards
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Proud history of lesbian and gay support for miners’ strike
New releases from Joe Wilkes, Honey and the Bear, and Hannah James and Toby Kuhn
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The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miners’ Strike by Tim Tate (John Blake Books, £8.99)
WRITERS often struggle with the personal accounts offered up by those whose stories they are trying to capture.
Memory has been called the greatest myth maker. As diligent as we strive to be — even keeping notes and journals — the archivist in us can be elbowed out by the storyteller.
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PETER MASON welcomes collected writings from Britain’s first black female publisher that focus on the place of black writers in literature
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
MIKE QUILLE applauds an excellent example of cultural democracy: making artworks which are a relevant, integral part of working-class lives