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News From Rain Shadow Country
Tim Wheeler
(Booklocker.com £15.95)
TIM WHEELER is the national political correspondent of People's World, the online newspaper of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and this book is an eclectic mix of autobiography and memories woven into a collection of his articles for different CPUSA journals going back 50 years.
His aim is to show that the class struggle is alive and well and these bite-sized glimpses into radical campaigns uphold that view.
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