Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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Rhyming for the revolution
An enjoyable listening experience combining poetry, reggae music and fierce polemics of the kind we need more of enthrals STEVE JOHNSON
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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
Attila The Stockbroker: 40 Years in Rhyme
Zorch Productions
THIS spoken word album by Morning Star columnist Attila the Stockbroker has been launched to celebrate his 40th anniversary as a punk poet. Set to dub reggae music from Kingsley Salmon this is a stunning collection of political poetry relevant to our current times of austerity and privatisation.
Afghanistan gives us a history lesson of the country from the hippy trail of the ’70s, to the time of its socialist government and consequent destruction by US destabilisation paving the way for the Taliban, 9-11 and subsequent wars.
Attila poses the question of how different things may have been if the secular socialists had been allowed to continue with their social programmes and the forerunners of the Taliban and al-Qaida had been defeated before they had begun.
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