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Civilising the Irish ROBBIE McVEIGH and BILL ROLSTON

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Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign ABIGAIL B. BAKAN and YASMEEN ABU-LABAN

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Dean Baker’s war of position JONATHAN SCOTT

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Tea – midwife and nurse to capitalism A. R. T. KEMASANG

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British radicals JEREMY SEABROOK 84 France: voices of the banlieues NAIMA BOUTELDJA 90 Reviews

Latin America and Global Capitalism: a critical globalization perspective by William I. Robinson (Jerry Harris) 100 Africa Writes Back: the African writers series and the launch of African literature by James Currey (Michael Wolfers) 102 Bad Samaritans: the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang (Kam Hei Tsuei) 104 Urban Outcasts: a comparative sociology of advanced marginality by Loïc Wacquant and A World of Gangs: armed young men and gangsta culture by John M. Hagedorn (Matt Clement) 107 Index to Volume 50 110 Books received 112

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