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ALAN McGUIRE welcomes the complete poems of Seamus Heaney for the unmistakeable memory of colonialism that they carry
The Real Jessie Eden by Graham Stevenson
Inspirational biography of a fighter for the working class and women’s rights
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a musical — and questioning — survey of Shakespeare’s attitude to women
MATTHEW HAWKINS enjoys the work of reading the essays of a rigorous and leading London/Caribbean cultural participant
ALEX HALL appreciates the history of a famous shoot-out that is sourced from diaries, letters, and newspapers of the time
MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
FOR those engaged in the class struggle today for women’s emancipation, equal pay and the ending of discrimination in the workplace, for abortion rights and lives free of violence, accounts of brave women who joined the fight before us must never be forgotten.
Their political stories resonate with our struggles now and with our own family histories.
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JOHN GREEN surveys the remarkable career of screenwriter Malcolm Hulke and the essential part played by his membership of the Communist Party
Read Sisters, the journal of the National Assembly Of Women, below.