MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Against corporate power
JAN WOOLF joins forces with artists and activists who seek to understand and resist corporate capital
Gloriosa victoria, mural by Diego Rivera which satirizes the role of the US, UFC, Catholic Church and the military in the Guatemalan coup. The individuals giving the handshake are John Foster Dulles and general Castillo Armas.
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Silent Coup; How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, Bloomsbury, £15
CORPORATION: dictionary definition: noun; a large company or group of companies authorised to act as a single entity and recognised as such in law.
Provost and Kennard’s take is to ask: by whose authority?
Silent Coup is investigative journalism at its best, charting the rise of corporate power after World War II, where the freedoms fought for were redefined. The freedom to exploit a country’s workers and resources was robust. Freedom from hunger, homelessness and poverty, not so much.
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