Book Review Archives - RADICAL SCOTTISH POLITICAL WRITING

Overheated and over here: our planet on fire

8th September 20218th September 20212 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 190 Views environmental emergency., John Wood 4 min read

John Wood reviews two books about the environmental emergency. As the climate crisis comes into sharper relief by the day,

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8th September 20218th September 20212 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 107 Views Book Review, Gulf War, Sean Sheehan, Tony Harrison 4 min read

Hall, E. (ed.) New Light on Tony Harrison, Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2019, pp246, £45 (hb), ‎ 978-0197266519, and Hall,

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8th September 20218th September 20212 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 91 Views Agenda Publishing, Book Review, Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen, inntopia: What we can learn from the world's happiest country, Mike Danson, Nordic countries 4 min read

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen, Finntopia: What we can learn from the world’s happiest country, Agenda Publishing, £18.99, 9781788212151 Reviewed

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15th July 202115th July 20212 months ago Scottish Left Review 619 Views British capitalism, British State, independent Scotland, Murray Armstrong, Socialists 9 min read

Fotheringham, B., Sherry, D. and Bryce, C. (eds.) Breaking up the British State: Scotland, Independence & Socialism (Bookmarks, 2021, 436pp,

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15th July 202115th July 20212 months ago Scottish Left Review 133 Views censorship, communication, E. Berkowitz, fake news, harmful rhetoric, Julian Assange, Sean Sheehan 2 min read

Berkowitz, E. Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News, Westbourne Press,

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25th May 202125th May 20214 months ago Scottish Left Review 227 Views A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689-1939, Edith Hall, Henry Stead, Sean Sheehan 2 min read

Edith Hall and Henry Stead, A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689-1939, Routledge,

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25th May 202125th May 20214 months ago Scottish Left Review 226 Views Birlinn, Facing the Bear: Scotland and the Cold War, Hamish Kirk, Trevor Royle 2 min read

Trevor Royle, Facing the Bear: Scotland and the Cold War, Birlinn, 2019, £25, pp368, 9781780275260 Reviewed by Hamish Kirk. I

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25th May 202125th May 20214 months ago Scottish Left Review 170 Views 4th Estate, Alex Ross, Graeme Arnott, Wagner Society of Scotland, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music 4 min read

Alex Ross, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, 4th Estate, 2020, £30, pp769, 9780007319053 Reviewed by Graeme

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25th May 202125th May 20214 months ago Scottish Left Review 250 Views Dr Andrew Noble, Gavin Esler, Head of Zeus, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow 2 min read

Gavin Esler, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations, Head of Zeus, 2021, £9.99, 9781800241053 Reviewed

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8th March 20218th March 20217 months ago Scottish Left Review 276 Views inspiring women, Judy Cox, leading women, Lorna McKinnon, Rebellious Daughters of History, Socialist Workers’ Party in Glasgow 2 min read

Judy Cox, Rebellious Daughters of History, 2021, Redwords, 9781912926947, £10, pp128 Reviewed by Lorna McKinnon Where can we look to

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Margaret Skinnider – Scotland’s almost unknown revolutionary

12th January 202112th January 20218 months ago Scottish Left Review 495 Views 1916 Rising Centenary Committee-Scotland, Constance Markievicz, James Connolly, Maggie Chetty, Margaret Skinnider 4 min read

Maggie Chetty recalls the life of Skinnider and the work to keep her memory alive. From the great political ferment

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Yes, Yes, Yes: UCS – Unity Creates Strength

12th January 202112th January 20218 months ago Scottish Left Review 319 Views 50th anniversary of UCS work-in, A Rose Loupt Oot – Poetry and Song Celebrating the UCS Work-in, Gordon Morgan, Smokestack Books 3 min read

On the occasion of the beginning of the 50th anniversary in 2021 of the UCS work-in, we reprint a book

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12th January 202112th January 20218 months ago Scottish Left Review 425 Views Ben Jackson, Cambridge University Press, Colin Fox, The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland 4 min read

Ben Jackson, The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland, Cambridge University Press, pp179,

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12th January 202112th January 20218 months ago Scottish Left Review 256 Views New York Review Books, Sean Sheehan, Victor Serge 4 min read

Victor Serge, Notebooks: 1936-1947, New York Review Books, 2019, £14, pp651, 9781681372709 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan. No one writing from

Grey front cover of 'Huts a Place Beyond' written in white with a colour photo of a smiling Lesley Riddoch underneath.

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9th November 20209th November 202011 months ago Scottish Left Review 401 Views Hamish Kirk, Lesley Riddoch, Luath 2 min read

Lesley Riddoch, Huts: a place beyond – how to end our exile from nature, Luath, 2020, £9.99 Reviewed by Hamish

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7th September 20207th September 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 421 Views Colin Fox, contributing editor for the Financial Times, John Lloyd, Polity, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence 4 min read

Lloyd, J. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence, Polity, 2020, £20, pp211, 1509542663 Reviewed by

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