ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
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Correcting the record
HELEN MERCER applauds a book that restores the contribution of US communists to the Civil Rights movement
(L to R) Louise Thompson Patterson at the 7th Federal Congress of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany in Berlin, November 1960; Esther Cooper Jackson addressing a rally in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1968; Eslanda Goode Robeson c1947
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
Organize, Fight, Win – Black Communist Women’s Political Writing
Edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
Verso, £19.99
CLAUDIA JONES is well known as the driving force behind the establishment of the Notting Hill Carnival. Morning Star readers will also be aware that she was an American communist, a member of the CPUSA, and deported to Britain in 1955 having been indicted under the Smith Act.
Indictments under this Act, together with the House Un-American Activities Committee, decimated the leadership of the CPUSA as well as ruining the lives of sympathisers.
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