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7th September 20207th September 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 77 Views Colin Fox, contributing editor for the Financial Times, John Lloyd, Polity, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence

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 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 43 Views 'William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary', E Thompson, LensCulture, Merlin Press, Sean Sheehan, The Eye of Photography, The Irish Times, William Morris

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 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 59 Views Cambridge University Press, M. Musto, Sean Sheehan, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations

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 20203 weeks ago Scottish Left Review 42 Views Dr Andrew Noble, M Gessen, Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House, Surviving Autocracy

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 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 20 Views 'The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820, Murray Armstrong, Pluto Press, Sean Sheehan

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 20203 months ago Scottish Left Review 23 Views 'Radical Scotland: Uncovering Scotland’s Radical History - from the French Revolutionary era to the 1820 Rising', Biteback, Colin Darroch, Gordon Leggate, Kenny MacAskill

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 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 41 Views ‘Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism, Dr Aidan Beatty, Wendy Liu

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 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 24 Views 'Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life', D. Whitfield, Spokesman, Stuart Fairweather

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 20205 months ago Scottish Left Review 25 Views E. McCarraher, Harvard University Press, How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, Sean Sheehan

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 20206 months ago Scottish Left Review 24 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

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 20209 months ago SLR 27 Views Gerry Hassan, Gordon Morgan, Luath Press, Scottish Parliament, Simon Barrow

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 20209 months ago SLR 24 Views Edwin Muir’s Scottish Journey, home rule, Mainstream Publishing, national unity, Rory Green, Scotland, Scottishness

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 20209 months ago SLR 24 Views Bloomsbury, Sean Sheehan, Sex and the Failed Absolute, Slavoj Žižek

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 20209 months ago SLR 24 Views Gardner Thompson, Legacy of Empire, Sandy Hobbs

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 20209 months ago SLR 13 Views Colin Fox, Profile Books, Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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 20191 year ago SLR 20 Views clergyman, Donny O’Rourke, Jesus, Life Is Not A Long Quiet River: A Memoir, Willy Slavin

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 20191 year ago SLR 25 Views Dave Sherry, Irish History, James Connolly Reader, Shaun Harkin, struggle for liberty

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

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16th September 20191 year ago SLR 27 Views A Scottish Journey: Personal Impressions of Modern Scotland, James McEnaney, Luath, Maggie Chapman

James McEnaney, A Scottish Journey: Personal Impressions of Modern Scotland, Luath, £9.99, 9781912147427 Reviewed by Maggie Chapman A lot has

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16th September 20191 year ago SLR 24 Views class, Consoles, controllers, Gordon Morgan, Haymarket, Jamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade, videogames industry

Jamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, controllers and class struggle, Haymarket, 9781642590142 Reviewed by Gordon Morgan This is a

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15th July 201916th July 20191 year ago SLR 24 Views Alexander Trocchi, British literary world

Alexander 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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20th May 201920th May 20191 year ago SLR 23 Views Clyde Workers' Committee, John Maclean, Red Clydeside, working-class revolt during WWI

Henry Bell, John Maclean – Hero of Red Clydeside, Pluto, pp256, 9780745338385, £14.99 Reviewed by Dave Sherry The explosion of

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18th March 20192 years ago SLR 22 Views 1919, George Square, Glasgow, Kenny MacAskill, Riot Act, troops

Kenny MacAskill, Glasgow 1919: The Rise of Red Clydeside, Biteback, pp320, 9781785904547, £20 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan Much has been

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14th January 20196th February 20192 years ago SLR 13 Views callousness and violence of forced dispossession, Church of Scotland, dispossession, former chieftains of the clans, Gaelic poetry, Highlands, landlords, Lowlands, North America, schemes of ‘compulsory emigration’, social and economic dynamics, Tom Devine

Tom Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900, Allen Lane, 2018, 9780241304105 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan The

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14th January 20196th February 20192 years ago SLR 34 Views British and world politics, Europe, France, Jeremy Corbyn, Socialist Register, tax cuts, Trump, wealthy

Greg Albo, Leo Panitch and Alan Zuege (eds.) Class, Party, Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader, Haymarket Books, 1608469190, £20.99 Reviewed

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Book Review – Catalonia Reborn

12th November 20182 years ago SLR 19 Views Britain, Catalan independence, Catalans, Catalonia, Franco, Guardia Civil forces, Madrid, Spain, Spanish Governmentreferendum

Chris Bambery and George Kerevan, Catalonia Reborn; How Catalonia Took on the Corrupt Spanish State and the Legacy of Franco,

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Book Review – Contemporary Trotskyism

12th November 20182 years ago SLR 21 Views doctrine, Leon Trotsky, orthodoxy, sectarianism, Socialist Party, SWP, Trotskyists, unions, workers

John Kelly Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain, 2018, Routledge, 9781138943810, £23.99, pp296 Reviewed by Gordon Morgan

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