KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
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Going Dark by Juila Ebner
Establishment perspective provides few answers to growing threat of far-right extremism
HIPSTER-FRIENDLY: Generation Identity
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
INFILTRATING, interviewing and researching a whole range of groups such as religious fundamentalists, conspiracy theorists and white supremacists, Julia Ebner’s journey through the often hidden world of “fringe” politics is in many respects useful and informative.
A somewhat provocative work, it provides much food for thought. Consider, for example, how most socialist groups seek to attract, recruit and involve people. With some honourable exceptions, most leftist literature is dull, worthy and ideologically dense and few groups are able even to maintain a website that is in any way attractive.
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