RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Everything Must Change
‘Pick 'n' mix’ proposals dilute menu for radical political action following coronavirus crisis
HAND-IN-HAND: Techno oligarchs Nasdaq and Facebook
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
PURPORTEDLY a response to the coronavirus pandemic, Everything Must Change is a compilation of 20+ interviews conducted earlier last year with leftist journalists, academics, artists and political commentators.
Its editors, Renata Avila and Srecko Horvat, both prominent in Diem 25 (Democracy In Europe Now) and Progressive International, claim that the ideas and suggestions in the book will prompt readers “to know how to act, when and where to strike.”
I question if that will be the case. If the aim is to inform and guide coherent action, then I doubt that a book providing a kind of ideological “pic’n’mix” can stimulate an impetus for concerted action.
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