MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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The criminal liability for Covid
STEVE ANDREW recommends an concise summary of our collective experience of Covid that is a valuable part of the campaign for justice
INCONVENIENT TRUTH: (left to right) Kirsten Hackman, Michelle Rumball, Fran Hall and Kathryn Butcher, who were removed from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry as Boris Johnson began his evidence with an apology to victims of the pandemic at Dorland House in London, during its second investigation into core UK decision-making and political governance on December 6 2023
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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
A People’s History of Covid
Terina Hine
Counterfire, £7.50
SHORT, concise, and well written, A People’s History of Covid covers issues thrown up by the global pandemic right through to the present day, and the fact that it comes from a Marxist perspective makes it all the more welcome.
Most regular readers of the Morning Star will be familiar with nearly all the details contained therein but that does not necessarily take away from its significance as a text to be more widely distributed. The important thing about facts is that they need to be repeated time and time again until justice is done and wider social change brought about.
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