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My review of “Reasons to Rebel My Memories of the 1980s” by Sheila Rowbotham

Posted on October 29, 2024 by lipstick socialist

    Reading Sheila Rowbotham’s latest memoir, I feel I am inside  her  head as we spin through the 1980s  on a rollercoaster of emotions, feelings, and activities.   Sheila is a socialist feminist, historian, activist, mother, partner,  lover, comrade, friend… … Continue reading →

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Book review; All That I Am by Anna Funder

Posted on August 2, 2012 by lipstick socialist

For those of us who are active in anti-fascist struggles, whether in our community, in the workplace or on the street,  the spectre of the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the late 1920s is always there. It is … Continue reading →

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