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  • A Difference of Opinion

    My Political Journey

    by Jim Sillars ...
    Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a sharp critic of the party's cult of personality.In this candid memoir, he records a controversial political life from local councillor to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Difference of Opinion

    My Political Journey

    by Jim Sillars ...
    Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a sharp critic of the party's cult of personality. In this candid memoir, he records a controversial political life from local councillor to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Place of Fear II

    A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland

    by Jim Sillars ...
    Jim Sillars argues convincingly that the referendum gives the Scottish people the power to create a better country, helps renew our belief in socialism as the answer to the economic and social crisis facing the country, and challenges the idea in the Yes campaign that independence means “change but no change” and that a Yes voter endorses Alex Salmond and the SNP. There is a far more radical road, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • In Place of Failure

    Making It Yes Next Time … Soon

    by Jim Sillars ...
    The referendum is over, but Scotland’s underlying social and economic problems remain, as they have since its brutal deindustrialisation under Thatcher. Jim Sillars sets out the arguments for a second referendum and for an urgent resolution, as the Vow has failed to deliver promised powers, and in particular the powers to rescue Scotland’s poor from devastating cuts, which he argues can only come ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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