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MAYBE I’m being too optimistic but I hope, due in part to the restrictions imposed on daily life by Covid, that Morning Star readers had a little more time than usual for reading.
If you did, then there were plenty of quality left-wing books to savour.
Ken Fuller’s Love and Labour takes in the activities of the “red button” union, the London and Provincial Union of Licensed Vehicle Workers, and eventually the wider fissures in society in the years leading up to the first world war.
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