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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
THERE is no hideaway here in this record, no sanctuary except the soloist’s pure musicianship. For there is no respite in a solo instrumental performance — even more so if that performance is multi-instrumental.
Born in Miami in 1939, Joe McPhee (pictured) began to play trumpet at eight years old, but hearing Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman in the ’60s turned his musical life around and he began to learn saxophone when he was 32.
In 1974, while McPhee was playing and recording in New York, the visiting Swiss record producer Werner Uehlinger was hugely impressed by the power and scope of McPhee’s sound and the tapes of a performance at the Free Music Store.
CHRIS SEARLE urges you to listen to two new albums by the US Indian pianist VIJAY IYER
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
As part of the 2025 London Jazz Festival Rich Mix offered intriguing sessions titled 'Persian Jazz,' CHRIS SEARLE was there