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‘This has a soul now, it’s going to be incredible’
We Shall Overcome is a fast-growing phenomenon in the swelling musical movement against austerity, with events planned across Britain and in the US on the weekend of Oct 2-4. PAULINE TOWN, one of its prime movers and shakers, tells Matt Hill how and why she got involved
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
What made you want to get involved in We Shall Overcome?
I wanted to help the people I love who are suffering such real hardship and make a positive statement that enough is enough.
Musicians are so often willing to step up when people are in real need — this is an amazing chance to make music so loud across the whole of Britain that we give the people who are being so seriously harmed by these cuts a real voice and also help the charities, foodbanks and groups that are going to very seriously have to save lives if things don’t change.
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