Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
The criminal liability for Covid
STEVE ANDREW recommends an concise summary of our collective experience of Covid that is a valuable part of the campaign for justice
covid
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
A People’s History of Covid
Terina Hine
Counterfire, £7.50
SHORT, concise, and well written, A People’s History of Covid covers issues thrown up by the global pandemic right through to the present day, and the fact that it comes from a Marxist perspective makes it all the more welcome.
Most regular readers of the Morning Star will be familiar with nearly all the details contained therein but that does not necessarily take away from its significance as a text to be more widely distributed. The important thing about facts is that they need to be repeated time and time again until justice is done and wider social change brought about.
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