STEVE JOHNSON recommends a beautiful album of songs that celebrate summer, from May Day onwards
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Class discrimination and the arts
VANESSA CORBY asks what will the arts do for everyday working people?
STUNNING: Jeremy Deller’s recreation of The Battle of Orgreave staged on the 17th anniversary of the battle. The 1,000-strong cast played the miners and police including ex-miners who were originally there, and large numbers from re-enactment societies from across the UK
New releases from Joe Wilkes, Honey and the Bear, and Hannah James and Toby Kuhn
Given the power of the live experience, MIK SABIERS recommends Jon Spencer’s new album
Reviews of T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Tamikrest, and Dub Colossus
The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
ON the morning of July 5, Keir Starmer and his supporters celebrated Labour’s election victory in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern, bathed in the glow of a huge red wall behind.
Hard on the heels of the culture wars of the Conservative election campaign and its “rip-off degrees” rhetoric, this iconic start felt like stepping into a parallel universe.
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