MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
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MIKE SQUIRES recommends a rare history of the Communist Party in Liverpool
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
The Communist Party in Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1920-1940
Chris Jones
Socialist History Society, £5
WRITING local labour movement history is never an easy task. Unlike the ruling class, who litter themselves with memoirs about their contribution to the locality and its wellbeing, the organisations of the working class often fail to see the value of reserving records.
Nowhere is this more true than with the Communist Party.
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