RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Resist and connect
JON BALDWIN appreciates the way Steve McQueen has curated the evidence of our resistance, and is inspired by their cumulative effect
Andrew Wiard
Demonstration against the imminent invasion of Iraq by Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain, 15 February 2003
[© Andrew Wiard / reportphotos.com / Courtesy of Andrew Wiard]
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain and Photography Shaped Protest
Turner Contemporary, Margate
CONCEIVED by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, Resistance recently opened in Margate, Kent. This is a curation of photographs chronicling and bearing witness to popular protest in the UK.
It spans a turbulent century, from early faded images of suffragettes in 1903 to the anti-war protest of 2003 on the cusp of the proliferation of camera-phones.
The people are seen standing up for women’s rights, workers’ rights, queer rights, disabled rights, the environment, and standing against fascism, racism, post-imperialism, nuclear arms, and war.
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