MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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100 Posters that Changed the World
(L to R) New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) Planned Housing poster; Civil rights movement US, I am a Man; Stonewall, Some Poeple are Gay. Get over it! campaign poster; Family Planning Association (FPA, UK) 1970 ‘Pregnant Man’ campaign poster
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
GRANDIOSE marketing statements, like the claim contained in the title of this book, might invite disappointment from the discerning reader as inevitably more than a few posters included may not live up to the hype.
And, as is the case here, many classics are notable by their absence — Atelier Populaire, Rosta posters, Gustav Klutsis and Polish film and theatre posters among them.
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