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Lessons from history for women’s liberation
RON JACOBS points out that it wasn’t until anti-imperialist and anti-racist movements formed women’s liberation groups that the fundamental roots of oppression could be addressed
Marxist Notes on Music
Marxist Notes on Music
Towards working class opera
BEN LUNN argues that opera has long been an arena of radical ideas and music and shouldn't be an art form lost to the wealthy
Exhibition Review
Exhibition Review
Keep it simple
MARY CONWAY overcomes her resistance to the work of the 91-year-old Japanese American conceptual artist
Book Review
Book Review
New tools of oppression
JAMES WALSH is appalled by the implications of introducing AI to the workplace
Attila the Stockbroker Diary: March 21, 2024
A eulogy from the itinerant troubadour to the city of Belfast, local music venues, the wit of the North Stand Kollective, and the indefatigable Joe Solo
Theatre review
Theatre review
Read all about it!
LYNNE WALSH recommends an outstanding production with the zeal to tell stories of our socialist past
Cinema
Cinema
Film round-up: March 21, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews The Persian Version, Robot Dreams, The Delinquents and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Film of the week
Film of the week
The girl who joined the armed struggle
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense and brutal drama that tells the remarkable story of heiress-turned-IRA militant Rose Dugdale
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Books
‘There is such a thing as ineradicable homosexuality’, Harry Whyte, letter to Stalin, 1934
MATTHEW HAWKINS treads warily through the symphonic history of a subject that our present understanding can only obscure
21st Century Poetry
21st Century Poetry
Wound Up
By John Foggin