To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Personal snapshots that are windows onto a peoples’ ongoing history
Highly responsible and necessary work that opens up a goldmine, writes ANGUS REID
Dejected workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Falkirk, Scotland, in October 2013, after owners Ineos decided to shut it down following the dispute over pay and conditions
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
If You Don’t Run, They Can’t Chase You
by Neil Findlay
Luath Press £7.99
I’VE SEARCHED every newsagent in Grangemouth, the site of Scotland’s biggest petrochemical plant, for a copy of the Morning Star, and in vain. How come?
The answer lies in Mark Lyon’s honest account of the Battle of Grangemouth, that took place between Unite and the new owners Ineos, under Jim Ratcliffe.
It is a painful but eye-opening story that comes halfway through If You Don’t Run They Can’t Chase You, a fascinating and highly readable collection of first-hand accounts “from the frontline in the fight for social justice’, as collected and compiled by the former MSP Neil Findlay.
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