By John Pickard After coming across a review in the Financial Times of Varlam Shalamov’s two books of short stories, about his experiences in the Russian gulags,
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By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party member Liza William’s, a film maker, has conducted a three-part investigation into the bludgeoning of over twenty women by
By Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP January 21 marked 70 years since the untimely death of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) from TB in University College,
By John Pickard Edward Snowden’s autobiography, Permanent Record, is an account of how a fairly ordinary and ‘patriotic’ American youth came to be one the most
By Maggie (Unison Worcester Acute Branch) and Andy Fenwick, Worcester South Labour Party On Thursday, we carried a review of the John Pilger documentary on
Review by Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party member. In a hard-hitting ITV documentary last Tuesday, The Dirty War on the NHS, John Pilger, the distinguished
By Michael Roberts I should have reviewed Brett Christophers’ book, The New Enclosure, when it came out this time last year. But better late than never. In
By Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century. Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication
By Geraldine O’Connell, Cheshire Stop The War Wikipedia notes that the Miami Showband killings took place on 31 July 1975 and was an attack by the Ulster
By John Pickard, Brentwood Labour Party Vasily Grossman’s novel Stalingrad has been published in English for the first time and like its sequel, Life and Fate, it stands
