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Near-miss for revolution
A new pamphlet reveals just how close Britain's labour movement was to overthrowing the government post-WWI, says ANDREW MURRAY
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
The Councils of Action 1920 and the British Labour Movement’s Defence of Soviet Russia
by John Foster
(Manifesto Press, £4)
FIVE years ago historian Frank McLynn authored The Road Not Taken, a book arguing that there had never been a revolution in Britain, unlike almost everywhere else.
His thesis was susceptible to the immediate objection, which he struggled with, that there had indeed been a revolution in the 17th century. Nevertheless, since then, there has been nothing more than several near misses, reinforcing the complacent Whiggish assumptions of British constitutional exceptionalism.
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