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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
John Gunther’s Axis Mundi
Healing Song (CIMP 163), Above Now Below (CIMP 176) and Gone Fishin’ (CIMP 232)
THE Colorado tenor saxophonist John Gunther (born in Denver in 1966) calls his band Axis Mundi and says that the words refer “to the place where human consciousness reaches for the eternal, where the earthly realm meets the spiritual.”
Some aspirations indeed for a jazz musician, especially one whose sounds reflect and affirm the many musics of the world.
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to US saxophonist CAROLINE KRAABEL
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a new album featuring Pat Thomas and Ahmed, and marvels at the tempestuous power of a live performance
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Filipino-US saxophonist JON IRABAGON about the threat of AI in the time of Musk and Trump, and how an artist can respond