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Marjorie Mayo
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

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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

Golden Dawn members hold flags with the meander symbol at a rally outside of party HQ, Athens, March 2015 / Pic: DTRocks/CC
Book Review / 24 April 2025
24 April 2025

These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO

ALIVE AND WELL: Pachamama, World Mother in the Aymara and Qu
Books / 17 May 2024
17 May 2024
MARJORIE MAYO recommends a guide to sharing knowledge, freely available both to academics and communities
Buying and selling in Mushin Oloosa market, Lagos-Nigeria, 2
Fiction / 14 May 2024
14 May 2024
MARJORIE MAYO recommends the story of two families caught up in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption