MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Living in an Armed Patriarchy by Lynda Walker
Essential reading on the women’s liberation struggle in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s on
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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
THIS booklet by Lynda Walker goes back to the years from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, years that shook the north of Ireland profoundly in many ways.
In exploring the experience of the dispossessed from their own point of view, hers is the kind of writing about past events that departs from mainstream bourgeois history and she records aspects of their suffering and resistance with a compassion reflecting her personal involvement.
The people most likely to achieve lasting and real change in the north of Ireland are those who are the worst affected by the grotesque version of capitalism manifest in Britain’s strife-ridden colonial backwater. As Walker shows, civil rights were slow to arrive from the late 1960s on and, in glaring contrast to both Britain and the Republic of Ireland, in some instances have yet to be achieved.
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