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IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Transmuting Dreams
Ingrid Laubrock
Sleepthief (Intakt CD146)
Anti-House (Intakt CD 173)
Ingrid Laubrock Octet
Zurich Concert (Intakt CD 221)
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
More expensive by weight than gold, saffron is surprisingly simple to grow. MAT COWARD explains
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
THE GERMAN saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock was born in Stadtlohn in 1970 and went against the grain by listening intently to free jazz from an early age. She moved to Berlin after leaving school and then crossed to London, busking with her alto horn on the underground, where she found her first audiences.
She took her first formal lessons from the ex-Jazz Messengers tenorist, Jean Toussaint, before returning to Germany and finding another teacher in the Brooklyn-born ex-Miles Davis sideman Dave Liebman.
Then, with such inspired tutelage behind her, she came back to London and studied music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was strongly influenced by Brazilian musicians.
In 1997 she cut her first album, Who Is It on the Candid label, and also joined the F-IRE Collective which caused her to broaden her sonic palette and embrace west African music.
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