ANA ISABEL NUNES points to the empowering legacy of Augusto Boal’s Theatre Of The Oppressed

JOHN NEWSHAM draws attention to the uncompromising path of US singer/songwriter CONOR OBERST

HYUN KYONG HANNAH CHANG draws attention to the role that music has always played in South Korean protest

BEN SELLERS explains why Britain needs a People’s Charter now

DAVID YEARSLEY celebrates the long-awaited issue of a mythic live recording featuring John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy

KEITH FLETT looks at a Labour turncoat behind the ratcheting up of measures to courtail the right to protest

SARRA GRIRA introduces a song by the Egyptian band Cairokee that has become an anthem for divorce from the western world

Access needs for patients with mobility issues still a problem at many NHS trusts, writes RUTH HUNT

Not only the Morning Star, as RICHARD HORNSEY, ANNA GREENWOOD and HILARY INGRAM explain with a brief history of Britain’s obsession with the hot water bottle

LEORA HADAS points out the paradox that renders nature programmes apolitical and unable to transmit the urgency of the climate crisis

NIGEL FLANAGAN argues that to built on the modest success of the recent wave of strikes it is indispensable to arrest the continuing decline of membership

MATTHEW SMITH picks out four films from the work of the late great Terence Davies

RICHARD RUDKIN can foresee only betrayal of working people under Starmer

CAROL TURNER points out the failure of the film Oppenheimer to face up to the real-life consequences of nuclear warfare

DANIEL PAUL TAYLOR and MATT ALFORD are sceptical of Jonathan Pie’s aspiration to tell the truth behind the news

JOHN WIGHT argues that the West’s inconsistent application of its laws and values when it comes to Israel is thrown into high relief by its response to the war in Ukraine

FRANCESCA SOBANDE watches the HBO drama series Succession and how it reflects the way external business interests have driven notions of Scottish identity

MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE reports on the continuing destabilisation of the country by rightwing politicians

PAUL DONOVAN reads The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and finds the debates therein both edifying and pertinent in the political climate of Britain today

In Cuba, ‘non-alignment’ has never meant being neutral, and has always meant being opposed to attempts to divide humanity, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS

By Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad

If we continue to blindly fight for a Labour victory despite its current centre-right leadership and policies, we are only damaging the left — not bring it closer to power, argues RICHARD RUDKIN

You can enhance your keep-fit experience by adding classical music to your playlist, say COSTAS KARAGEORGHIS, DAWN ROSE and ELIAS MOUCHLIANITIS