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MIKE QUILLE recommends an exhibition of Chris Killip’s stunning images of shipbuilding on the Tyne and its ultimate demise
End of Shift. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside
[© Chris Killip]
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
The Last Ships
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
THE LAST Ships exhibition of photographs taken by Chris Killip over just three years captures the awe-inspiring scale and beauty of the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside in the 1970s.
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