STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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WILL PODMORE is glad to find that a survey of editorials exposes the pretentions of the New Left Review
TRUE VICTORS: National Liberation Front of South Vietnam guerrillas patrol the Saigon River in October 1966
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TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
Contraventions: editorials from New Left Review
Susan Watkins, Verso, £25
THIS selection of editorials from the New Left Review in the years from 2000 to 2022 reveals more about NLR’s ideology than was possibly intended.
The self-important NLR team has always seen its role as indispensable — to inject correct theory into the somnolent masses. NLR’s philosopher-kings will enlighten the benighted masses across the world. There is no need for all the hard work of building a party, which it sees as inevitably doomed to bureaucratic deformation.
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