JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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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
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
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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