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25th May 202125th May 20213 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 117 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 20213 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 122 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 20213 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 63 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 20213 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 117 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 20213 months ago Scottish Left Review 199 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 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 399 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 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 204 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 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 352 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 20215 months ago Scottish Left Review 186 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 20207 months ago Scottish Left Review 307 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 20209 months ago Scottish Left Review 346 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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7th September 20207th September 20209 months ago Scottish Left Review 246 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

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7th September 20207th September 20209 months ago Scottish Left Review 295 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

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7th September 20207th September 20209 months ago Scottish Left Review 261 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

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2nd July 20202nd July 202012 months ago Scottish Left Review 246 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

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2nd July 20202nd July 202012 months ago Scottish Left Review 320 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,

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9th May 20209th May 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 438 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,

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9th May 20209th May 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 207 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

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9th May 20209th May 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 205 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

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24th March 202024th March 20201 year ago Scottish Left Review 227 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,

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17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 328 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,

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17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 350 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

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17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 331 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

Sub heading of 'Britain, Sionism and the Creation of Israel with a colonial white helmet above

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17th January 202019th June 20201 year ago SLR 310 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

The Fight for a Human Future at the Frontier of Power

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17th January 202017th January 20201 year ago SLR 250 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

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16th September 20192 years ago SLR 206 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

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16th September 201916th September 20192 years ago SLR 254 Views Dave Sherry, Irish History, James Connolly Reader, Shaun Harkin, struggle for liberty 4 min read

The James Connolly Reader, edited by Shaun Harkin, Haymarket Press, 2018, 9781608466467 Reviewed by Dave Sherry Born to Irish immigrants

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