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Lines, fuelled by lager and cheese rolls: Everything Crash by Tim Wells
KYRA HANSON reviews Tim Wells's latest collection Everything Crash
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
Culture was politicised, workers were striking, the youth were out of work and out of luck, but the reggae was blaring and the drinks were cheap. In some ways a lot has changed since the Ethiopians’ 1968 hit Everything Crash hit the airwaves, in other ways it’s a fitting title for Tim Wells’s new poetry collection.
Wells is a necessary voice of dissent amongst a narrative dominated by austerity, high rents, funding cuts and Tube strikes.
His poetry, rooted in the politically charged aspect of reggae culture, resonates with the “people’s music” which provided the soundtrack to a disenfranchised black youth growing up in the ’70s and ’80s.
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