GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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The defeat of Apartheid holds valuable lessons for the present and the future
International solidarity was the instrument with which the South African regime was dismantled, writes MARJORIE MAYO
The sharp end of the struggle
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
International Brigade Against Apartheid: Secrets of the People’s War That Liberated South Africa
Edited by Ronnie Kasrils with Muff Andersson and Oscar Marleyn
Jacanda Media £16.95
THIS extraordinary book brings together an amazing range of inspiring stories of international solidarity.
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