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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Youthful trumpeter Laura Jurd marries jazz with poetry
A powerful up-and-coming musician is winning awards for records crafted with life, light and exuberance, says Chris Searle
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
Laura Jurd: Island Mentality (Chaos Collective CC002), Human Spirit (Chaos Collective CC004)
Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under the Moon (Edition EDN 1054)
Laura Jurd is a powerful young English jazz musician whose work is now bursting out joyously from a number of diverse and surprising settings.
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