In 1952 George Allen and Unwin published Tony Cliff’s first book, Stalin’s Satellites in Europe (under his real name, Ygael Gluckstein), in which he applied the theory of state capitalism to the ‘people’s democracies’ of Eastern Europe. The work was… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome (The New Press, 2003), £14.95
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The revisionist historians who dominated study of the English Revolution between 1975 and 2000 rejected any argument tracing political conflict to larger patterns of social change.2 Specifically, they rejected a mechanistic ‘rising class’ model of the English Revolution, whereby subordinate… Continue Reading
Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, first published in 1990, made her the star of a new feminism linked to poststructuralism and queer theory. Butler’s work also produced massive controversy. Feminist writer Martha Nussbaum damned… Continue Reading
The 60th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, could not have arrived at a more politically charged moment. In Iraq the former D-Day Allies are ‘standing shoulder to shoulder’ again. But this time the… Continue Reading
The result of India’s election in mid-May shook observers of all sorts. Everyone, on the left and right alike, expected the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to romp home to another five-year term. There was little else but deep… Continue Reading
I am most grateful to the editor of this journal for allowing me to comment on Phil Marfleet’s review of my recent book in International Socialism 101 (Winter 2003). It is bad taste to comment on a review of one… Continue Reading
A review of Ian Birchall, Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Books, 2004), £36.50 Continue Reading
A review of Alex Callinicos, The New Mandarins of American Power (Polity Press, 2003), £13.99; Imperialism Now (Monthly Review, August 2003), £8; David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2003), £16.99; Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), The New Imperial Challenge: Socialist Register 2004 (Merlin, 2003), £14.95 Continue Reading
A review of Joseph Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties: Seeds of Destruction (Penguin, 2003), £18.99 and Paul Krugman, The Great Unravelling: From Boom to Bust in Three Scandalous Years (Allen Lane, 2003), £18.99. Continue Reading