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Many Vietnams
GAVIN O’TOOLE recommends an account of the post WWII global movement that allied socialist countries against US imperialism
Transporting goods on the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Vietnam to South Vietnam
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970
Moe Taylor, Cambridge University Press, £85
A GENERATION on from the Cold War, it is easy to forget how every aspect of our lives was shaped for half a century by the existential confrontation between the capitalist and socialist worlds.
Given that, it is imperative we do not allow the latest showdown between the “free” world and its adversaries today to obscure the real driving force of anti-communism after 1945: US imperialism.
That motive becomes emphatically clear when we consider alongside the usual suspects of Russia and China the “rogue” states that Washington and its satellites today continue to isolate, demonise or threaten: Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, Palestine and so on.
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