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An exemplary activist
STEVEN ANDREW welcomes the third instalment of autobiography by a libertarian socialist whose political work is charged with Gramscian realism
THE MIGHT OF ASSOCIATION: Demonstrators in the Netherlands protest against Clause 28 during a state visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the country in July 1988
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Reasons to Rebel
Sheila Rowbotham, Merlin Press, £17.99
FOR those unfortunate enough never to have come across the exemplary writing and dedicated activism of Sheila Rowbotham, it is important to set out from the start that from my perspective, she is one of the most important socialist and feminist academics of our era.
Not only do all of her more historical studies remain widely available but she has now released a third autobiographical volume, Reasons To Rebel, that covers the 1980s pretty much until the present day. Her earlier memoirs Promise Of A Dream (Verso, 2019) and Daring To Hope (Verso, 2021) respectively document her experiences of the 1960s and 1970s.
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STEVEN ANDREW is ultimately disappointed by a memoir that is far from memorable
STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
STEVEN ANDREW recommends an informed and personable work that contains as many ommisions as it does analyses
RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy