In the last issue of this journal Paul McGarr started a welcome debate on climate change. His analysis of the magnitude of the problem is spot on as are many of the solutions he proposes but I want to argue… Continue Reading
The last two issues of New Left Review have contained some unusually interesting material. Susan Watkins (NLR 33, May-June) provides a very useful analysis of the background to the attempt to push through the neo-liberal European constitution. She explains what… Continue Reading
A review of Neil Redfern, Class or Nation: Communists, Imperialism and Two World Wars (Tauris Academic Studies, 2005), £47.50 Academic discussion of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has in recent years been dominated by attempts to minimise the… Continue Reading
A review of Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Continuum, 2004), £9.99 No argument about the kind of society we want can ignore the question of culture. Stalinism provided a bureaucratic parody of the relationship between culture… Continue Reading
A review of Hugh Roberts, The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002 (Verso, 2003), £17, and Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War (Hurst, 2000), £16.50 In December 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front, FIS, appeared to be on the verge of a remarkable victory… Continue Reading
A review of Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent (Harvard University Press, 2004), £35.95 What is the explanation for neo-liberalism sweeping aside nearly all other ways of running a capitalist economy in the last quarter century? This is something… Continue Reading
A review of Martha Gimenez and Lise Vogel (eds), Science and Society Special Issue: Marxist-Feminist Thought Today, vol 69, no 1 (January 2005), £3.50 Any effective challenge to women’s oppression must be based on a Marxist analysis—that is the central… Continue Reading
A review of Paul Foot, The Vote: How It was Won and How It was Undermined (Viking, 2005), £25 Let me suggest at the outset another sub-title for the late Paul Foot’s most informative book, The Vote: How It was… Continue Reading
A review of Pierre Broué, The German Revolution, 1917-1923, translated by John Archer, edited by Ian Birchall and Brian Pearce (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2005), Euro 129 ‘This not a German event. There no longer are any “German events”.’1… Continue Reading
Pierre Broué (1926-2005) who died in July, was one of the most important historians in the revolutionary socialist tradition. Broué became a Trotskyist in 1944. It was not an easy time. Militants faced lethal danger not only from the Nazi… Continue Reading