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SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Heroes in the Evening Mist by William Ash
A powerful novel on post-colonial liberation and the issues faced by revolutionary governments when in power
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
WILLIAM ASH (1917-2014) lived a full revolutionary life, one that combined direct action and careful study.
Born in the US, after serving in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish civil war, he continued his fight against fascism by joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII, during which time he was captured, imprisoned and escaped.
An effective Marxist street organiser in the Britain of the 1950s, he later joined the BBC before being booted out for being too obviously a “red.”
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