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Essential reading for all engaged in the struggles against austerity and unemployment
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
THE CRISIS we are in shows no sign of slowing and all the government’s actions to date across Britain have more to do with the protection of finance and corporations than saving lives.
We are faced with a full-frontal assault on our class and once again face the spectre of mass unemployment.
Already there are attacks on workers’ terms and conditions, while hundreds of thousands have already lost their jobs and this will only expand unless we prepare.
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