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Category: Book Review

July 7, 2017July 8, 2017mbarker2012

Visions of Bena Balunda: A Documentary History of the Black Power Movement in Leicester 1970-72

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016mbarker2012

Climate of Fear: “The Battle for British Islam,” a Critical Review

July 1, 2016August 27, 2016mbarker2012

The Corbyn Fightback: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

March 5, 2016March 6, 2016mbarker2012

From Somalia to Ireland

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015mbarker2012

Doctoring the Truth

July 16, 2015September 25, 2016mbarker2012

Labour’s Enabler: Owen Jones and the Establishment

July 29, 2013September 5, 2015mbarker2012

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