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Struggle or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast’s 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots
by Sean Mitchell (Haymarket Books, £14.99)
AS THE government pursues its policy of persecuting the poor, Struggle or Starve could be an epithet for Britain in 2017. In it, Sean Mitchell, socialist and founder of Ireland’s People Before Profit party, reminds us of an important part of Belfast history when Protestants and Catholics united to oppose a draconian Poor Law.
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