MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
A tale of revolution and friendship
RON JACOBS recommends a painstaking study of the communists and revolutionaries who congregated in Moscow after 1917
Lux Hotel - the unofficial headquarters of the Comintern
[Public Domain] 
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
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals
Maurice J. Casey, Footnote, £22
IMAGINE a political and cultural revolution that shakes the world. Now imagine you are part of that revolution. In fact, part of your role is to celebrate its initial success as manifested in the country where it is occurring, while another is to spread the word in the country you reside in. This means writing, speaking and organising. It also means being aware of and staying ahead of the enforcers of the structures threatened by the revolution’s success.
This scenario was a reality in the wake of Russia’s 1917 October Revolution. Hundreds of revolutionaries (maybe thousands) boarded trains and ships with tickets to Moscow.
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