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The life and deeds of comrade Rita Weiss
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RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
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
Born to campaign: The Life Story of Rita Weiss 1921-2011
Edited and with an afterword by Claire Weiss
Manifesto, £11.95
AFTER a decade of austerity, with continuing attacks on working people, the need for inspiration seems greater than ever. And Born to campaign offers Morning Star readers precisely this.
The book tells the inspiring story of a working-class activist, told in her own words, edited with loving care by her daughter-in-law, Claire Weiss.
Rita Weiss started life as Rita Hodas, the eldest in a second-generation family of Jewish immigrant garment trade workers.
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