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

9th November 20209th November 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 77 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 Read More »

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7th September 20207th September 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 168 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 Read More »

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7th September 20207th September 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 100 Views 'William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary', E Thompson, LensCulture, Merlin Press, Sean Sheehan, The Eye of Photography, The Irish Times, William Morris 2 min read

Thompson, E. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, Merlin Press, 2020, pp642, 978-0-85036-680-8, £25 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Those who cherish Read More »

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7th September 20207th September 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 115 Views Cambridge University Press, M. Musto, Sean Sheehan, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations 2 min read

Musto, M. (ed.) The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations, Cambridge University Press, 2020, £75, pp408, 9781316338902 Reviewed by Read More »

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7th September 20207th September 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 115 Views Dr Andrew Noble, M Gessen, Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House, Surviving Autocracy 7 min read

Gessen, M. Surviving Autocracy, Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House, 2020, 978059318893, £21.45 In the allegedly free late 1960s, I completed my Read More »

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2nd July 20202nd July 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 62 Views 'The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Murray Armstrong, Pluto Press, Sean Sheehan 3 min read

Murray Armstrong The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Pluto Press, 2020, 9780745341330, pp228 Reviewed by Sean Read More »

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2nd July 20202nd July 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 94 Views 'Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising', Biteback, Colin Darroch, Gordon Leggate, Kenny MacAskill 6 min read

Kenny MacAskill Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History – from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising, Biteback, 2020, Read More »

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9th May 20209th May 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 157 Views ‘Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism, Dr Aidan Beatty, Wendy Liu 9 min read

Shutting down and switching off Silicon Valley Wendy Liu’s ‘Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism (Repeater Books, Read More »

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9th May 20209th May 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 71 Views 'Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life', D. Whitfield, Spokesman, Stuart Fairweather 4 min read

Whitfield, D. Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life, Spokesman, 2019, £25, 978085124 8837, pp580 Reviewed by Stuart Fairweather Public Read More »

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9th May 20209th May 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 67 Views E. McCarraher, Harvard University Press, How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, Sean Sheehan 2 min read

McCarraher, E. How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, Harvard University Press, 2019, pp816, 9780674984615, £31.95 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Read More »

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24th March 202024th March 20208 months ago Scottish Left Review 65 Views 2019, Cabin Crew Conflict –The British Airways Dispute 2009-11, Philip Taylor and Sian Moore with Robert Byford, Pluto Press, Pluto Press 2019, Reviewed by Dave Sherry 2 min read

Philip Taylor and Sian Moore with Robert Byford, Cabin Crew Conflict –The British Airways Dispute 2009-11, Pluto Press, 2019, pp224, Read More »

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17th January 202017th January 202011 months ago SLR 80 Views Gerry Hassan, Gordon Morgan, Luath Press, Scottish Parliament, Simon Barrow 2 min read

Gerry Hassan and Simon Barrow (eds.) Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation, 2019, Read More »

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17th January 202017th January 202011 months ago SLR 83 Views Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, home rule, Mainstream Publishing, national unity, Rory Green, Scotland, Scottishness 4 min read

Classic recounted: Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, Mainstream Publishing, new edition, 1996 Commented on by Rory Green Maggie Chapman reviewed James Read More »

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17th January 202017th January 202011 months ago SLR 83 Views Bloomsbury, Sean Sheehan, Sex and the Failed Absolute, Slavoj Žižek 4 min read

Slavoj Žižek Sex and the Failed Absolute, Bloomsbury, 2019, £20.00 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Žižek’s first English-language book, The Sublime Read More »

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17th January 202019th June 202011 months ago SLR 85 Views Gardner Thompson, Legacy of Empire, Sandy Hobbs 4 min read

Gardner Thompson, Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel, Saqi Books, £20.00, 9780863563614 Reviewed by Sandy Hobbs Read More »

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17th January 202017th January 202011 months ago SLR 65 Views Colin Fox, Profile Books, Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 4 min read

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Profile Books, 2019, £10.99 Reviewed by Colin Fox Whilst reading this international bestseller Read More »

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16th September 20191 year ago SLR 60 Views clergyman, Donny O’Rourke, Jesus, Life Is Not A Long Quiet River: A Memoir, Willy Slavin 4 min read

Willy Slavin, Life Is Not A Long Quiet River: A Memoir, Birlinn, £12. 99, 9781780275789 Reviewed by Donny O’Rourke I Read More »

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