MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Solidarity in song
STEVE JOHNSON applauds an outstanding album that is a celebration of achievements won through collective struggle
Strike leader addressing strikers during the Great Steel Strike of 1919, an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
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
Si Kahn and George Mann
Labor Day: A Tribute to Hard Working People Everywhere
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SI KAHN is a long-standing US singer-songwriter and union activist performing songs devoted to the struggles of the working class in the tradition of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
To mark his 80th birthday recently his fellow singer and union organiser George Mann has put together an album of 21 songs devoted to Labour movement history relevant to both the US and internationally.
The songs are all written by Kahn and include some new as well as older material. The album also features a number of guest artists including Billy Bragg, Peggy Seeger, Tom Chapin, Kathy Mattea and Odetta.
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The abundance of quality is heartening and bodes well for the future
John Cale's rediscovered classic album 1919, and new releases from Father John Misty and Lucinda Williams
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