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FACT NOT FICTION: If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow
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STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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
Lies, Propaganda and the West’s War in Ukraine
by Chris Nineham
Stop the War, £5
BRITAIN’S peace movement is being silenced — though not, in the eyes of its enemies, comprehensively enough, as we saw with former Jeremy Corbyn aide Andrew Fisher’s plea to wind up the Stop the War Coalition this month.
There are various motivations for the unprecedented ban on Labour MPs questioning Nato, the dramatic increase in censorship of alternative narratives online and the (Morning Star excepted) wall-to-wall media support for fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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