Interview with Jimmy Airlie, by Dougie Bain, MARXISM TODAY

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Interview with Jimmy Airlie

by Dougie Bain

Marxism Today, October 1979, pp. 16-20

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    5. A Great Radical: Hugh Macdiarmid, 1892-1978 by David Craig, pp. 55-59
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    4. E.P. Thompson, History and Communist Politics by Robbie Gray, pp. 181-187
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    5. --- by Dennis Ogden, p. 241
    6. --- by Jean Stansfield, p. 242
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