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Documentary Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 3 min read 372 Views

Steve Sprung, writer/director, The Plan That Came From The Bottom Up, 2018 Reviewed by Jackie Bergson The need for the

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Review of Prose Anthology

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 318 Views

Jim Aitken (ed.) Ghosts of the Early Morning Shift: An anthology of Radical Prose from Contemporary Scotland, Culture Matters, 2021,

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Book Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read 393 Views

Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You? Faber & Faber, 2021 Reviewed by John Wood Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are

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Short Story Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 1 min read 465 Views

Colin Burnett A Working Class State of Mind, Pierpoint Press, £9.84, 9781914090158 Reviewed by Sean Sheehan The title of the

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Book Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 2 min read 529 Views

Jim Sillars A Difference of Opinion: My political journey, Birlinn, 2021, 97817802706830, £14.99, pp303 Reviewed by Will Podmore Jim Sillars

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Book Review

10th January 202210th January 20227 months ago Scottish Left Review 5 min read 400 Views

Jane Hardy Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, Pluto, 2021, 9780745341040, pp272, £19.99 Reviewed

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Poetry Review

15th July 202115th July 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 491 Views

David Bleiman, This Kilt of Many Colours, Dempsey and Windle, 2021, 9781913329457, £8.00, pp50. Reviewed by David McKinstry This Kilt

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25th May 202125th May 20211 year ago Scottish Left Review 1 min read 603 Views

The Red Paper Reviewed by Vince Mills. In the latest issue of the Red Paper, it is argued that the

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Opera Review

9th May 20209th May 20202 years ago Scottish Left Review 4 min read 662 Views

Can lefties like Wagner? Graeme Arnott previews his granddaughters’ forthcoming production of her great-grandfather’s opera ‘Lohengrin’. It’s August 1876 and

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Review – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

12th November 20184 years ago SLR 2 min read 846 Views

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Commentary by Douglas Gifford, Readings by John Sheldon, Association

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Review – International Companion to James Macpherson & the Poems of Ossian

12th November 20184 years ago SLR 1 min read 680 Views

The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian, edited by Dafydd Moore, Scottish Literature International, £14.95, 9781908980199

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Review of Nuts and Bolts – A compendium of tools

12th November 20184 years ago SLR 4 min read 898 Views

Wade Rathke Nuts and Bolts: The ACORN Fundamentals of Organizing, Social Policy Press, 2018, 0997094311 Reviewed by Tony Adams Nuts

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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

24th September 20184 years ago SLR 4 min read 570 Views

Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays), Haymarket Books, £11.99, 978-1-60846-329-9 Around the corner from

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