PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
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Cultural strategies for communists
FRAN LOCK welcomes a discussion of culture designed to stimulate discussion and help to develop practical campaigns
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist, in concert in Brussels October 28 2017
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KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
A mesmerising novel by Mexican Daniel Saldana Paris, and fierce poetry by Peruvian Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod, and Jonathan Gonzalez
PAUL BUHLE an RAYMOND TYLER enjoy an issue of the radical comic WW3 that gives a platform to Palestinian artists, and uncensored commentary
JAMES WALSH wallows in the triumphant reappearance behind the mic of former Morning Star columnist Chris T-T
Class And Culture: Provocations For Cultural Democracy
Edited by Mike Quille
Communist Party of Britain, FREE
CLASS and Culture: Provocations For Cultural Democracy, is an accessible, galvanising exploration of culture, not merely as the medium through which ideology flows, but as a vital, joy-giving force in the lives of working-class people, and as a potential site of radical resistance.
Poetry Matters by Kevin Patrick McCann outlines not only the way in which working-class people are excluded from access to poetry, but also the methods by which working-class poets are assimilated, defanged and tokenised.
As McCann pithily puts it: “You can be a rebel and attack glaring injustices; just don’t attack the real causes of those injustices. For example, you can attack racism as long as you don't make the connection between racism and the class system.”
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