MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Personal snapshots that are windows onto a peoples’ ongoing history
Highly responsible and necessary work that opens up a goldmine, writes ANGUS REID
Dejected workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Falkirk, Scotland, in October 2013, after owners Ineos decided to shut it down following the dispute over pay and conditions
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
If You Don’t Run, They Can’t Chase You
by Neil Findlay
Luath Press £7.99
I’VE SEARCHED every newsagent in Grangemouth, the site of Scotland’s biggest petrochemical plant, for a copy of the Morning Star, and in vain. How come?
The answer lies in Mark Lyon’s honest account of the Battle of Grangemouth, that took place between Unite and the new owners Ineos, under Jim Ratcliffe.
It is a painful but eye-opening story that comes halfway through If You Don’t Run They Can’t Chase You, a fascinating and highly readable collection of first-hand accounts “from the frontline in the fight for social justice’, as collected and compiled by the former MSP Neil Findlay.
More from this author
ANGUS REID applauds the ambitious occupation of a vast abandoned paper factory by artists mindful of the departed workforce
ANGUS REID calls for artists and curators to play their part with political and historical responsibility
ANGUS REID recommends a landmark work of aural history that follows the intertwined lives of four International Brigaders
ANGUS REID reviews a book that is an important and comprehensive work of documentation
