IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Katheleen Edwards
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Corbyn era under the microscope
JOHN GREEN recommends, with minor reservations, an in-depth analysis of events that shook Britain to its core
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at a rally at Hoxton Docks in London, while on the 2019 general election campaign trail
RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
This is Only the Beginning — The Making of a New Left, from Anti-Austerity to the Fall of Corbyn
By Michael Chessum
Bloomsbury Academic, £20
MICHAEL CHESSUM cut his political teeth during the student and anti-austerity movements of the first two decades of this century.
He went on to become a member of Momentum’s steering committee and had been involved in various progressive organisations before joining Jeremy Corbyn’s group of advisers.
He writes passionately and eloquently. Here he examines how the emergence of Corbynism and its mass mobilisation came about and what we can learn from its rise and demise taking us on a roller-coaster ride through the history of rebellion and opposition during recent decades, both in Britain and abroad, capturing the excitement, the passion and the disappointments.
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