MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Rhyming for the revolution
An enjoyable listening experience combining poetry, reggae music and fierce polemics of the kind we need more of enthrals STEVE JOHNSON
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JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Attila The Stockbroker: 40 Years in Rhyme
Zorch Productions
THIS spoken word album by Morning Star columnist Attila the Stockbroker has been launched to celebrate his 40th anniversary as a punk poet. Set to dub reggae music from Kingsley Salmon this is a stunning collection of political poetry relevant to our current times of austerity and privatisation.
Afghanistan gives us a history lesson of the country from the hippy trail of the ’70s, to the time of its socialist government and consequent destruction by US destabilisation paving the way for the Taliban, 9-11 and subsequent wars.
Attila poses the question of how different things may have been if the secular socialists had been allowed to continue with their social programmes and the forerunners of the Taliban and al-Qaida had been defeated before they had begun.
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