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Why solidarity matters so much
ROZ FOYER recommends an excellent account of the profound and positive consequences of working class solidarity with Chile in Scotland
PEAS IN A POD: Margaret Thatcher on a solidarity mission to General Pinochet while under house arrest at Wentworth in Surrey
JOHN GREEN appreciates an informative and readable account of the nation state and its current dilemmas, but doubts the solutions this author has to offer
JOHN MCINALLY recommends that this rational, reasonable and devastating case against the End Of Life Bill be read by every serious socialist activist
CHRIS SEARLE urges you not to miss Mark Sanders’ three night residency at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London
JENNY MITCHELL surveys the work of Hurvin Anderson, now a centrepiece of Britain’s white-dominated art establishment, and explores some of the complexities it opens up about British Caribbean identity
SOPHIE STOLL wallows in a fine live recording of old blues-infused folk songs immersed in American blue-collar culture
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review DJ Ahmet, Redoubt, They Will Kill You, and The Magic Faraway Tree
Aye! Venceremos! Scotland and Solidarity with Chile in the 1970s — And Why it Still Matters Today
By Colin Turbett, Carlton Books, £10
COLIN TURBETT is a lifelong socialist, political activist and trade unionist who can trace his own political awakening in the 1970s right back to being inspired by the actions of the Chilean solidarity movement in Scotland at that time.
In fact he was so inspired that at university in 1978 he did his dissertation on Chilean refugees in the west of Scotland for his social work degree.
So really there can be few better placed to write this excellent book.
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