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Sheep magazine archive 1: issues 3-9

Lefty online magazine, issue 3: October 2015 to issue 9: April 2016

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highlighted in two publications of correspondence and writing by prisoners<br />

on Death Row in the United States, where three thousand prisoners<br />

currently face execution.<br />

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Recognising that politics is only separated from history to the detriment of<br />

both, the press developed a close relationship with the London Socialist<br />

Historians Group, publishing several titles concerned with labour history<br />

and Marxism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It reached back to<br />

the Peasants’ Revolt of the fourteenth century, and came right up to date<br />

with an underrated work titled Anti-Capitalist Britain, which considered<br />

the burgeoning protests against capitalism at Genoa and elsewhere, and<br />

deserved a wider audience than it found. One aspect of this movement<br />

was the Green perspective, which found expression in a separate book,<br />

Market, Schmarket, written by the Green MEP for the South West, Molly<br />

Scott Cato.<br />

Ultimately, New Clarion Press beat a retreat in the face of the decline of<br />

independent bookshops and the squeeze on its very slender margins from<br />

corporations like Amazon and from its own distributors in the UK and the<br />

USA. Financially hamstrung and never reaching the ‘critical mass’ needed<br />

to be commercially successful, it nevertheless remained always critical,<br />

achieving some notable successes in its own terms and sounding a clarion<br />

call to those in the movement who were able to hear.<br />

SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 6

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