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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
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
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.
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