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Alastair Hatchett

In Brief

(March 1977)


From International Socialism (1st series), No.96, March 1977, p.31.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’ Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).


SEVERAL good titles previously in hardback have just appeared in paperback. They include Tony Bunyan The Political Police in Britain (Quartet £2.50), Hobsbawm’s Revolutionaries (Quartet £2.50) and John Foster Class Struggle in the Industrial Revolution (Methuen £2.75). Penguin have just published a new paperback edition of Hugh Thomas’s monumental study of The Spanish Civil War at £3.50. Also new from Penguim are two books on prisons and prisoners. First is Mike Fitzgeralds’s Prisoners in Revolt (£1.00) which examines the prisoners’ protests and demonstrations of the last few years and the reasons for them. Secondly there is Jessica Mitford’s The American Prison Business (£1.00). Both books reflect the same concern summed up by the American socialist Eugene Debs, ‘While there is a soul in prison, I am not Free.’

All the books reviewed or mentioned in this issue are available on mail order from Bookmarks, 265 Seven Sisters Road, London, N4.


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