SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Telling the truth about Orgreave
ANGUS REID speaks to Daniel Gordon about his new film Strike - an uncivil war
WORKING CLASS POINT OF VIEW: (L) Filmmaker Daniel Gordon; (R) A still from the VHS camera of a miner as the mounted police charge through Orgreave village, June 18 1984
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
TO make a film about the events of June 18 1984 at Orgreave coking works has occupied film-maker Daniel Gordon for a decade.
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The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a compassionate and angry portrait of Orgreave that demonstrates, with evidence, the illegal agenda of the Thatcher government
Miners battered by the police in 1984 still await justice as Labour pledges to launch a probe — but will any new inquiry pry loose the BBC’s buried footage and expose the Tory lies that framed innocents, asks CHRIS PEACE
