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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
The Dawning of the Apocalypse
by Gerald Horne
Monthly Review Press
£17.67
HISTORY continuously reminds us that racism and capitalism are two peas from the same pod.
Those of a predominantly European descent wreak worldwide havoc, carrying out the much-fabled white man’s burden, imposing themselves as ruling elites.
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