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RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival
Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
Essential information and analysis of neoliberal economics on the point of collapse
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie
MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender
New releases from Brian Fallon, Antony Szmierek and Hollow Hand
APURBA CHATTERJEE explains how British artists in India used the “picturesque” to reshape colonial landscapes and celebrate imperial power
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries
IN THE last year, I’ve read or listened to a number of things I’d put on the list of any left activist’s need-to-know list, be they working on an industrial dispute, an election campaign or in a social movement.
Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts is a no-nonsense approach to the long-term deep level of organising in communities everywhere that the left needs to undertake if it has a hope of making the best of the mixed possibilities of the moment.
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