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Marjorie Mayo
HOW FASCISM BEGAN: Prisoners guarded by SA men line up in the yard of Oranienburg concentration camp, 6 April 1933 [Pic: Public Domain]
Book Review / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

MARJ MAYO recommends an engaging, if chilling, collection of diaries and letters that trace a population's capacity for accommodation with Nazism

alive
Book Review / 17 June 2026
17 June 2026

MARJ MAYO sees the contemporary relevance of this account of the consequences of a society’s accommodation with evil

immigration
Books / 5 June 2026
5 June 2026

MARJORIE MAYO recommends a highly useful guide to the benefits and hazards of different approaches to immigration

venice requiem
Book Review / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

MARJ MAYO recommends a lyrical and disturbing account of the tragic suicide in Venice of Pateh Sabally, a refugee from the Gambia

solnit
Books / 26 February 2026
26 February 2026

MARJORIE MAYO is disappointed by the lack of class analysis in an all-too-plausible account of progressive causes

wilde
Books / 29 January 2026
29 January 2026

MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson

ravensbruck
Books / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

MARJORIE MAYO recommends a compelling account of how women survived a Nazi concentration camp and lend their experience to today’s fight against the far right

mibers wives
Film of the week / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025

MARJORIE MAYO suggests that this inspiring film, about the women toughened by the miners’ strike, be shown throughout the TUC and in community groups

culpable
Book Review / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025

MARJORIE MAYO is moved by the clarity with which the FBU call out the true causes of this preventable tragedy

fink
Books / 29 June 2025
29 June 2025

MARJORIE MAYO welcomes challenging insights and thought-provoking criticisms of a number of widely accepted assumptions on the left

palestine monuments
Books / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025

MARJORIE MAYO recommends a disturbing book that seeks to recover traces of the past that have been erased by Israeli colonialism

small boat
Books / 13 May 2025
13 May 2025

MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility