MIKE COWLEY relishes an exhibition that reminds us, in the teeth of establishment pushback, that lasting change always begins in workplaces, communities and the street
Always Red – an incisive political memoir with lessons for the whole left
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO finds much to recommend the autobiography of former Unite leader Len McCluskey
Len McCluskey, former general secretary of Unite, applauds during the 2019 Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton
ED RAMPELL is disappointed by the confusing results of embedding cameras amid a Ukranian platoon
KEVIN BRYAN reviews Soul 66, Suzy Thompson, and Butterfield Blues Band
With reservations, RON JACOBS recommends a deep dive into the nature, history, and mindset of US intelligence
JOHN HAWKINS wrestles with the anti-humanist fantasies of techno-feudalist thinking
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Savages, The Legend of Ochi, and The Naked Gun
GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy
LEN McCLUSKEY’S autobiography Always Red has been trailed in the press as an attack on the new Labour leadership of Keir Starmer.
Many reviews have been hostile to its politics: but this will hardly surprise McCluskey, who has both been the victim of scurrilous media mistreatment and the witness to the concerted character assassination campaign launched across the mainstream media against Jeremy Corbyn for five years.
As he himself notes, “the British press, dominated by billionaire-owned, right-wing, Conservative-supporting newspapers, sets a narrative that treats all strikes as bad and almost all bosses as plucky entrepreneurs.
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