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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Why socialism is now at the core of Labour's advance
Simon Hannah’s concise and very readable account of the ongoing struggle between left and right within Labour couldn't be more timely, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
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
A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left
by Simon Hannah
(Pluto Press/Left Book Club, £12.99)
A PARTY with Socialists In It is inspired by Tony Benn’s comment that “the Labour Party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it” and the book charts the attempts of those socialists to promote their vision over the course of the past 118 years.
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