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Militants, Artists and Poets by Jim Burns
Choice compendium of countercultural currents
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
WHILE I might initially have had some misgivings about reviewing a book made up entirely of book reviews, by a few chapters into Militants, Artists and Poets I was quickly convinced that this was going to be an enjoyable and often thought-provoking read, not least in signposting new and original books I hadn’t already encountered.
Clear and relaxed, Burns’s almost effortless style of writing enthusiastically explores a kaleidoscopic range of materials and manages to do so in an fashion that is fair, balanced and thoroughly objective.
A key attraction of this collection is that it generates interest in the most unlikely and often sadly marginalised of
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