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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Acute focus on left-green engagement with science and natural world
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
RELATIVELY brief and somewhat eclectic, this collection of essays on the links between science and socialism is nevertheless an outstanding guide to the subject.
It starts with a fascinating exploration of the life and work of “red chemist” Carl Schorlemmer, which he uses as a means of analysing the left’s relationship to science and the natural world in general.
For those keen to label Marxism as somehow innately anti-ecological and fixated upon unfettered industrial growth, Ian Angus’s nuanced and evidence-based conclusions might come as something of a revelation.
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STEVEN ANDREW recommends an informed and personable work that contains as many ommisions as it does analyses