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Book: Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures And Resistance
Peter Linebaugh’s book is an essential guide to how land belonging to all has been stolen by capitalist depredation, says DEREK WALL
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Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures And Resistance
by Peter Linebaugh
(PM Press, £15.99)
PETER LINEBAUGH is one of the best living Marxist historians who, in detailed but bracing books like The London Hanged and The Magna Carta Manifesto, has illuminated both British and world histories as tales of closely fought class struggle.
He is best known for his work on “the commons” — the common land which was stolen in Britain, as Marx noted, to make way for the capitalist system.
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