MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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MATT KERR suggests an exhibition that reflects the human cost of deaths in custody should picket every centre of state power in the UK
(L-R) Cherry Groce's wellchair, where she was shot by police in Brixton; Olasensi Lewis's running shoes; the parents of Katie Allen who committed suicide in custody, on the beach where her ashes were scattered
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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
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Platform, Glasgow
THE state isn’t generally shy about building memorials to the glorious dead.
In every town in the land we can find plaques, stone crosses signifying the vast loss of life in war through the years, and even in older workplaces you can still find some built to remember the waste of humanity if you look hard enough and they’ve been spared the wrecking ball.
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