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The price we pay

Pandemics, poverty, violence, biodiversity loss, economic crisis

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Reviews & Culture

Catching the New Wave

Cultural flows have proved more multi-directional than commentators could have imagined
27 May 2020
Obituaries

Bill Withers 1938-2020

We’re used to musicians announcing their retirement, quickly followed by their ‘comeback’ tour and album. But when Bill Withers quit in 1985 he was true to his word, performing just one final gig for a prodigious fee. So anyone under 50 is unlikely to have seen him perform and may be familiar only with a...
27 May 2020
Obituaries

John Prine 1946-2020

The US singer-songwriter John Prine died on 7 April, following complications from Covid-19. Prine had a profound influence on the American folk-country scene with a career that spanned more than 50 years, though he never reached the commercial heights of some of his peers. He weaved stories of working class life with wry songwriting, seeking...
27 May 2020
Reviews & Culture

3.15.20 – Childish Gambino

Since the days of Derrick Comedy, Donald Glover has been hitting nothing but net. Straight out of college he was writing for and acting in award winning shows. He got bored, derived the name “Childish Gambino” from a Wu-Tang name generator, then achieved sickening success with the song Redbone, gaining four Grammys and going platinum....
27 May 2020
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Reviews & Culture

Classical Music – Beethoven

What marked his artistic development was the impact of the Enlightenment revolution in ideas, particularly of freedom, equality and fraternity, that found material expression in the French Revolution.
27 May 2020
Reviews & Culture

Sway: the Science of Unconscious Bias by Pragya Argawal

This book represents what has largely become mainstream thinking on race, gender, sex and sexuality. Argawal argues that a large body of human behaviour, especially oppression, prejudice and discrimination, results from irrational decisions governed by our implicit or unconscious bias towards people who are different to us. She combines her experiences as a single parent...
27 May 2020
Socialist Review Archive

How austerity undermined public health across Britain

As COVID-19 continues to inflict terrible damage, it is the privatisation of social care, and the undermining of the NHS, that is the root of the crisis now facing healthcare
27 May 2020
Socialist Review Archive

The mainstream left face defeat and dilemmas

It is beggars belief that Piers Morgan and The Sunday Times have been much more effective in calling out the government than the opposition
19 May 2020
Socialist Review Archive

SNP is culpable in the coronavirus catastrophe

Edinburgh has tail-ended the disastrous Covid-19 policies of Westminster
19 May 2020
Socialist Review Archive

West Bank and Gaza are trapped between pandemic and siege

The Israeli occupation seized tents in the West Bank that were being used as emergency clinics reports Yousef Asfour, Palestinian activist living in the Gaza strip
19 May 2020
Socialist Review Archive

Tories’ Betrayal of Windrush

Brian Richardson pays tribute to the contribution BAME health workers made to the NHS, and the terrible price they are now paying.
13 May 2020
Socialist Review Archive

Sojourner Truth & Elisabeth Dmitrieff – Rebellious Daughters #1

We begin a monthly celebration of some of the most dynamic, fighting women from history.
13 May 2020