Margaret Skinnider – Scotland’s almost unknown revolutionary
Maggie Chetty recalls the life of Skinnider and the work to keep her memory alive. From the great political ferment
Read moreMaggie Chetty recalls the life of Skinnider and the work to keep her memory alive. From the great political ferment
Read moreOn the occasion of the beginning of the 50th anniversary in 2021 of the UCS work-in, we reprint a book
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Read moreThompson, E. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, Merlin Press, 2020, pp642, 978-0-85036-680-8, £25 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Those who cherish
Read moreMusto, M. (ed.) The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations, Cambridge University Press, 2020, £75, pp408, 9781316338902 Reviewed by
Read moreGessen, M. Surviving Autocracy, Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House, 2020, 978059318893, £21.45 In the allegedly free late 1960s, I completed my
Read moreMurray Armstrong The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Pluto Press, 2020, 9780745341330, pp228 Reviewed by Sean
Read moreKenny MacAskill Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History – from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising, Biteback, 2020,
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Read moreWhitfield, D. Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life, Spokesman, 2019, £25, 978085124 8837, pp580 Reviewed by Stuart Fairweather Public
Read moreMcCarraher, E. How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, Harvard University Press, 2019, pp816, 9780674984615, £31.95 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan
Read morePhilip Taylor and Sian Moore with Robert Byford, Cabin Crew Conflict –The British Airways Dispute 2009-11, Pluto Press, 2019, pp224,
Read moreGerry Hassan and Simon Barrow (eds.) Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation, 2019,
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Read moreSlavoj Žižek Sex and the Failed Absolute, Bloomsbury, 2019, £20.00 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Žižek’s first English-language book, The Sublime
Read moreGardner Thompson, Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel, Saqi Books, £20.00, 9780863563614 Reviewed by Sandy Hobbs
Read moreShoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Profile Books, 2019, £10.99 Reviewed by Colin Fox Whilst reading this international bestseller
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Read moreThe James Connolly Reader, edited by Shaun Harkin, Haymarket Press, 2018, 9781608466467 Reviewed by Dave Sherry Born to Irish immigrants
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Read moreJamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, controllers and class struggle, Haymarket, 9781642590142 Reviewed by Gordon Morgan This is a
Read moreAlexander Trocchi: An intriguing writer Sean Sheehan reviews a number of Trocchi’s key works Glasgow-born Alexander Trocchi was a fiery
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