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Just Published!

Lwodf_1 Live Working or Die Fighting is a book by BBC Newsnight journalist Paul Mason, covering the rise and fall of the global labour movement. To buy it on Amazon click here. To see a 60 second video about the book go here. It starts with the Peterloo Massacre and ends with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising rediscovering along the way the voices of ordinary people who set out to change their lives and society at the same time. And it sets these stories from the past alongside stories from today: Bolivian tin-miners, Iraqi oil workers, migrant cleaners in London's Canary Wharf. The book is published by Harvill Secker, price £12.99.