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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Shaken (Emanem 4081) and Caesura (Emanem 4123)
by Roland Ramanan
“IT WAS my intention with this project to indulge my long-time interest in the grey areas between composition and improvisation.” So writes the trumpeter Roland Ramanan in the sleeve notes to his first album Shaken, named in tribute to his father Shake Keane of St Vincent, a poet of distinction and also one of the truly great trumpeters of the Caribbean, and brass partner of the Jamaican altosaxophonist Joe Harriott in some of the most luminous and original jazz albums since the 1960s.
Ramanan blows with a similar innovative spirit and free volition to his father and voyages directly into those “grey areas” with a discovering intention that makes them shine and dazzle with invention.
CHRIS SEARLE urges you to listen to two new albums by the US Indian pianist VIJAY IYER
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to US saxophonist CAROLINE KRAABEL
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
As part of the 2025 London Jazz Festival Rich Mix offered intriguing sessions titled 'Persian Jazz,' CHRIS SEARLE was there