DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Stitched up by building companies aided by a Tory government
The Shrewsbury 24 case was a travesty of justice on a unprecedented scale, writes JOHN GREEN
STATE TERROR: (L to R) Mark Turnbull, Terry Renshaw, Harry Chadwick, Eileen Turnbull, John McKinsie Jones with wife Rita McKinsie Jones, outside the The Royal Courts Of Justice, London, February 2021
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
A Very British Conspiracy – The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice
By Eileen Turnbull
Verso £16.99
EILEEN TURNBULL is one of those extraordinary working-class heroes who should be honoured by their country but in our class-riven society rarely are.
In 1972 building workers in Britain went on strike for the first time ever for better pay, safer working conditions and an end to the Lump (zero-hours contracts and lump sum payments) which was rife in the industry.
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