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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Last words on two scourges of the Establishment
A tribute to Bob Crow, by ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Got an email from the producer of BBC Radio Four's obituary programme The Last Word the other day, asking me to write a tribute to Bob Crow, so I did.
Now you'd think that if you commission a left-wing political poet to eulogise a great radical trade union leader you'd kind of know what you're going to get, wouldn't you?
In these timid times, it seems not.
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