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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists: Tressell’s timelessness by Jonathan Edwards
On the 100th anniversary of its publication The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists still remains an essential read for progressives everywhere, writes JONATHAN EDWARDS
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
This is a year of centenaries. The birth of Dylan Thomas. The start of the Great War. But among 2014 milestones, there’s one anniversary which is going, it seems to me, under-celebrated.
It’s a hundred years this year since the first publication of Robert Tressell’s big, important, rambunctious and utterly brilliant novel, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
The novel is about the lives of a group of Edwardian house painters — their work, their leisure, their children, their deaths. Most importantly, their struggle against profit-seeking bosses who consider them only in terms of how much they can be exploited.
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