Donald Reid: Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968-1981 [2018] hardback PHOTO From warring states to street

From warring states to street gangs

Edouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line

suggests that the English residents form a choir

de Valera personified Irish independence

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Donald Reid: Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968-1981 [2018] hardback PHOTO From warring states to streetIn the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national cause and controversy. The Lip occupation and self management experience captured the imagination of the Left in France and internationally, as a living example of the spirit of May '68. In Opening the Gates, Donald Reid chronicles the history of this struggle. Beginning with the early stirrings of worker radicalism in 1968, Reid's meticulously researched