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Impressive life of feminist pioneer
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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
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
From Liberal To Labour With Women’s Suffrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall
by Jo Vellacott
(Spokesman Books, £17.99)
AT THE turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the newly formed Labour Party led by Keir Hardie and Ramsay McDonald was in an uneasy coalition with Herbert Asquith’s Liberal Party, although there were strong moves to seperate from it and fight elections on a more left-wing agenda.
Internationally, the rise of working-class struggle and women’s and colonial emancipation demands were taking place alongside competition between old and new imperialisms for a share of the resources and spoils of the world demanded by capitalist industrialisation.
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