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Outstanding political double act
HENRY BELL relishes an evening of radical politics, surreal comedy and expert musicianship
PURE COMRADESHIP: Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers make songs from the dark times
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
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Jonny & The Baptists
Chorley Theatre, Lancashire
SOCIALISM loves a double act. Fidel and Che, Lenin and Trotsky. The straight man and the renegade. Perhaps it furthers the dialectic.
Less common in socialist circles however is the comedy double act, and so Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers — the Marx and Engels of musical comedy — plough a unique furrow with their mix of radical politics, surreal comedy and expert musicianship.
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