The myth of the self-made man
/Posted byPaul Dovey
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Paul Dovey
Paul Dovey is a trade unionist who sometimes gets angry and writes things. He strongly believes that the act of creativity itself is empowering and that working class culture should make its own space and use its own voice.
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