KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive
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Correcting the record
HELEN MERCER applauds a book that restores the contribution of US communists to the Civil Rights movement
(L to R) Louise Thompson Patterson at the 7th Federal Congress of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany in Berlin, November 1960; Esther Cooper Jackson addressing a rally in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1968; Eslanda Goode Robeson c1947
[(L to R) German Federal Archives/Public domain/Pic:digital.library.ucla.edu/Los Angeles Daily News/Public domain]
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the debunking of the iconic British war hero
ALEX HALL recommends a searing panorama of our global predicament
Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
Organize, Fight, Win – Black Communist Women’s Political Writing
Edited by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
Verso, £19.99
CLAUDIA JONES is well known as the driving force behind the establishment of the Notting Hill Carnival. Morning Star readers will also be aware that she was an American communist, a member of the CPUSA, and deported to Britain in 1955 having been indicted under the Smith Act.
Indictments under this Act, together with the House Un-American Activities Committee, decimated the leadership of the CPUSA as well as ruining the lives of sympathisers.
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