GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Britain’s Communists: The Untold Story – An Extract
From anti-fascist struggles in the 1930s to the peace movement, the trade unions to the student and women’s movements, JOHN GREEN show how communists played significant roles in promoting social and political progress in Britain
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Communists exist in the popular imagination, if at all, as marginal conspiratorial groups fomenting violent revolution and, while the Soviet Union still existed, working as its agents.
Novels like the James Bond thrillers helped perpetuate such images. In terms of who communists actually were or are, what they have done and how they have behaved, the majority will know very little if anything.
Many would probably laugh out loud if it were suggested to them that communists and communism have had tangible affects on their lives.
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