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A weapon in the struggle : the cultural history of the Communist Party in Britain / Edited by Andy Croft

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Pluto Press, 1998.Description: vi, 218 p. illISBN:
  • 0745312098
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Contents:
James Barke: a great-hearted writer, a hater of oppression, a true Scot / H. Gustav Klaus -- To disable the enemy: the graphic art of the three Jameses / Robert Radford -- Heirs to the pageant: mass spectacle and the Popular Front / Mick Wallis -- Notes from the left: Communism and British classical music / Richard Hanlon and Mike Waite -- Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s / Maroula Joannou -- An intellectual irrelevance? Marxist literary criticism in the 1930s / Hanna Behrend -- King Street blues: jazz and the left in Britain in the 1930s-1940s / Kevin Morgan -- The boys round the corner: the story of Fore Publications / Andy Croft -- The Edinburgh People's Festival, 1951-54 / Hamish Henderson -- 'The world's ill-divided': the Communist Party and progressive song / Gerald Porter -- The sunshine of socialism: the CPGB and film in the 1950s / Bert Hogenkamp
Summary: Includes: The world's ill divided : the Communist Party and progressive song by Gerald Porter

James Barke: a great-hearted writer, a hater of oppression, a true Scot / H. Gustav Klaus -- To disable the enemy: the graphic art of the three Jameses / Robert Radford -- Heirs to the pageant: mass spectacle and the Popular Front / Mick Wallis -- Notes from the left: Communism and British classical music / Richard Hanlon and Mike Waite -- Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s / Maroula Joannou -- An intellectual irrelevance? Marxist literary criticism in the 1930s / Hanna Behrend -- King Street blues: jazz and the left in Britain in the 1930s-1940s / Kevin Morgan -- The boys round the corner: the story of Fore Publications / Andy Croft -- The Edinburgh People's Festival, 1951-54 / Hamish Henderson -- 'The world's ill-divided': the Communist Party and progressive song / Gerald Porter -- The sunshine of socialism: the CPGB and film in the 1950s / Bert Hogenkamp

Includes: The world's ill divided : the Communist Party and progressive song by Gerald Porter

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