SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
A Centenary for Socialism: the new Communist Party history
The Communist Party has had an influence on the achievements of the British labour movement far more diverse way than was previously realised
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
A Centenary for Socialism
Edited by Mary Davis
Manifesto Press
£9.99
THE Communist Party has had an influence on the achievements of the British labour movement in far more diverse ways than was previously realised
This thematic analysis of the Communist Party’s first 100 years of revolutionary struggle is an honest and thoughtful account. It will be of great value to everyone from the party’s longest-serving activists to the many new members who have joined over the last 12 months.
Aligned as a companion to Red Lives, which biographically highlighted the extraordinary contributions of many less well-known comrades from previous generations, A Centenary for Socialism is helpfully clear as to what it is and is not.
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