STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Remembering Georg Weerth: Comrade in arms and friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Georg Weerth and his gravestone in Havana, the inscription reads: “in memory of Georg Weerth who died in Havana on July 30 1856 aged 34. He was the first great poet representative og the German proletariat, comrade in arms and friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.”
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
TOMORROW is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georg Weerth, a German poet, writer and close collaborator of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Weerth met Engels in Manchester and became closely allied with Marx and the Chartist leaders. While in England he came to understand the misery of the working class as the flip side of enormous technical progress, and also that this class was destined to eventually overthrow capitalism.
In Weerth’s short story, The Flower Festival of English Workers, for the first time in German literature a new image of humanity emerges directly from the experience of the fighting proletariat — workers as class-conscious, fighting people with a developed aesthetic sense.
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