SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
Prison as class warfare
RON JACOBS recommends a radical analysis of the role of the prison as a fundamental extension of the racist and capitalist US imperial exercise
REVOLUTIONARY ACTS: Demonstrators demand the release of the “October 11 Brothers” in February 1974 on trial after the October 11 1972 uprising The Central Detention Facility DC
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In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
by Orisanmi Burton
University of California Press, £23.59
THIS new book changes the narrative around the 1971 Attica Prison Revolt in a substantial, even revolutionary way.
In the text, Burton reframes the uprising at Attica State Prison in 1971 as part of an ongoing revolt. In doing so, he shifts the emphasis from the massacre by law enforcement that is most present in other tellings. In addition, his repositioning of that incident as part of a longer, ongoing movement by black, Latino and other prisoners for the abolition of prisons and jails in general makes the history of Attica a living fact.
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