Reviews

1 January 2001 Ippy D

AK Press/Alternative Tentacles, spoken-word CD, 54 mins. Available from radical bookshops, or see http://www.akpress.org or http://www.alternativetentacles.com

This interesting, engaging and often humorous CD is the edited recording of a lecture given in the summer of 1997 at Colorado College in the US by radical activist and academic Angela Davis.

At the core of this fairly simple lecture is the exposing of links between capitalism, racism and the prison system - and this is done fairly eloquently on the whole.

Drawing on her own prison experience and the experiences of her friends and comrades, combined with a professed ex-communist turned-socialist, feminist analysis, Davis…