MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Tremors of Discontent: My Life in Print 1970-1988
Nuanced and frank narrative of dedicated union activist
SEMINAL MOMENT: Sogat picket, Wapping, 1986
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
SOME on the left will have locked in their memory actions and moments which became vital to their political awakening and growth in consciousness, which Mike Richardson’s autobiographical account Tremors of Discontent calls to mind.
Powerfully stark and honest, he recounts and assesses his experiences in the 1970s and 1980s while an active print worker and SOGAT trade unionist in a Bristol printworks.
Richardson recounts his post-war boyhood as the son of working-class parents on Lockleaze council estate in Bristol’s northern suburbs, his secondary-modern schooldays and his first permanent job in a works producing printed packaging.
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