From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together

GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem

PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit

Expanding Britain’s nuclear capability increases the risk of nuclear confrontation. It does not keep us safe – it makes us a target, argues CAROL TURNER

The US blockade of Cuba raises risks of a new global pandemic, experts warn at Unison conference

HENRY BELL follows the lineage of revolutions, from the English to the Chinese, and asks where revolutionary politics exists today

MARJ MAYO sees the contemporary relevance of this account of the consequences of a society’s accommodation with evil

The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE