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Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Mathew Brown and Rhian E Jones. A review by Paul Wildish. “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” - George Orwell May saw the publication by Repeater Books of Paint Your Town Red: How… Continue reading Municipal Socialism
Richard Price reviews Communities of Resistance: Conscience and Dissent in Britain during the First World War by Cyril Pearce, Francis Boutle, 556pp, £30. As the author explains, this superb book is the result of research that began in the late 1960s, and continued with his study of the anti-war movement in Huddersfield, Comrades in Conscience,… Continue reading Against the Stream
Lesley RodinGreat Yarmouth CLPReview: Steve McQueen’s compelling anthology of the Black British experience. One of the landmark cultural TV events of 2020 was Small Axe. Timely and compelling, this anthology of five films, directed by Oscar-winning film director, Steve McQueen, is a powerful exposition of key historical events and culture of the British black, Caribbean… Continue reading Small Axe
"Socialism Makes Sense: An Unfriendly Dialogue" Review Sean Matgamna is well into his sixth decade of activism, and for most of that time has been the leading theoretician of the tendency now known as the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty. This book – a revised version of one published under a slightly different name in 2016… Continue reading Arguments for Socialism
All flag waving and patriotism? Think again argues Michael Barnes This month marks the beginning of the annual Proms season, which carries on throughout the summer until the patriotic flag-waving last night on 8th September. Henry Wood, who founded the Proms in 1895, saw his task as educating a middle class public. Beginning with a… Continue reading The politics of classical music
Richard Price enjoys a tribute to a pioneering club at the Theatre Royal, Stratford. In 1938, Barney Josephson opened the first integrated nightclub in New York. Naming it Café Society in a barbed reference to the beautiful people and bright young things of the 30s, he later said that he “wanted a club where blacks… Continue reading Breaking down barriers: Cafe Society Swing
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