JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
The naked truth, pure and simple
JAMIE JOHNSON recommends a no-holds-barred Black perspective on the miscreation that is the ‘America’ of today
FALSE PRETENSES: Bush, Obama, Clinton
[Pete Souza-White House-CC]
Re-releases from Iain Matthews, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Charlie Daniels Band
JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
The Black Agenda
Glen Ford
OR Books, £15.99
GLEN FORD was an experienced independent journalist steered by what he described as a black-left perspective. He was a Marxist, primarily concerned with the welfare of black people but never shying away from castigating the US history of imperialism and racism.
This collection of speeches and written work is uncompromising in its assault on the US attempt to “pillage the world with impunity,” re-enact the white man’s burden and impose its corporate mastery of the planet.
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