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The Highland Clearances: We need politics to fix this problem, not emotion

Let’s be realistic in our use of language. We’re in danger of being that lad who shouted daily that the wolf was coming, writes Angus Peter Campbell.

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One man s search for traces of his forefathers on an abandoned Scottish island

One man s search for traces of his forefathers on an abandoned Scottish island
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Best stops on the NC500 to engage with history of Highland Clearances

Best stops on the NC500 to engage with history of Highland Clearances
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Australian artist s new exhibition at Strathnaver Museum inspired by cruelty and injustice of the Clearances

Barry Smiths s new exhibition is being launched at Strathnaver Museum on Friday, September 1.

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Monthly Review | How capitalism was born in robbery, violence and fraud (The War Against the Commons reviewed by Socialist Worker)

As Marx wrote, the common rights “were simply redefined as crimes: poaching, wood-theft, trespass”. The war against the commons removed the rights for people to…

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