The place is Los Angeles, the time is the early 1940s, and the US is so hell-bent on building up its navy to defeat Japan that non-white workers are being employed in the shipyards to build new vessels of war.   Sean Sheehan   Robert ‘Bob’ Jones is one such […]

The Photographers’ Gallery has become the first port of call for photography exhibitions in London. One of the current exhibitions focuses on the work of Letizia Battaglia who was born in Sicily in 1935 and died there in 2022.   Sean Sheehan   A fearless campaigner for the rights of […]

Lenin’s support for the rights of nations to self-determination, is made clear in Imperialism and the National Question. Three other books from the same publisher throw more light on him.   Sean Sheehan   “Lenin’s childhood” gathers what is known about the third child of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov and Maria […]

The work of the award-winning Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was exhibited in London in August at the Photographer’s Gallery. One of her photos, shown in The Prisma’s review of the exhibition, was of four women standing in front of a wall mural of Benito Juárez and Villa y Zapata.   […]

We are creatures of desire and, unlike the need of a hungry person for food, desire cannot be satisfied. Nor, unlike an infant’s demand for love, can it be assuaged and appeased.   Review by Sean Sheehan Photos by Photo Marc Brenner   We are all, in one way or […]