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The untold stories by those marginalised and ignored by austerity in Invisible Britain are inspirational, says MIKE QUILLE
Billy McMillan
[Kirsty Mackay]
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CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism
Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience
edited by Paul Sng
Policy Press
IN HIS films, Paul Sng explores the lives of working class people who've been ignored, marginalised or demonised by mainstream media and who are protesting and challenging the status quo in some way.
Now, in his new book Invisible Britain, the documentary photographs, portraits and accompanying text tell the untold invisible stories of those targeted by austerity economics, of those left behind by cuts to public services and excluded from the dominant narratives in the press and broadcast media.
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