Feedback: 1956 and Labour
As a former pupil of Stan Newens in Hackney back in the 1960s, I now know why he gave me such good marks for a talk I gave on the Russian Revolution, despite the mess that I made of it.… Continue Reading
As a former pupil of Stan Newens in Hackney back in the 1960s, I now know why he gave me such good marks for a talk I gave on the Russian Revolution, despite the mess that I made of it.… Continue Reading
Political explosions are so frequent in Latin America these days that it is sometimes hard to keep up with them. The most surprising ones last year were in Mexico—first with the mass demonstrations in Mexico City against the rigging of… Continue Reading
A review of Bill Dunn, Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour (Palgrave, 2004), £45 Bill Dunn, whose edited collection on Trotsky was recently reviewed on these pages, has produced an excellent critique of the assumption, common across parts of… Continue Reading
A review of John Rees, Imperialism and Resistance (Routledge, 2006), £14.99 Imperialism has entered the public political discourse over the last five years in a way which would have seemed highly improbable for most of the preceding generation or more.… Continue Reading
A review of Jonathan I Israel, Enlightenment Contested (Oxford, 2006), £30 This is a long (871 pages of text), often repetitive, occasionally confusing, and very important book. It continues the challenge to the conventional view of the Enlightenment made by… Continue Reading
A review of Scott Mann, Heart of a Heartless World: Religion as Ideology (Black Rose Books, 1999), £13.99 How should socialists relate to social movements whose aims are informed by religious ideas? A moment’s consideration of this problem is enough… Continue Reading
A review of D L Raby, Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today (Pluto, 2006), £15, Tariq Ali, Pirates of the Caribbean—Axis of Hope (Verso, 2006), £14.99 and Michael Lebowitz, Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st Century (Monthly… Continue Reading
A review of David Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes (Bloomsbury, 2006), £25 With the publication of his supposed ‘diaries’, David Blunkett has achieved an impressive hat-trick: the former heads of the Metropolitan Police, the Prison Service and the Armed Forces have… Continue Reading
A review of Alex Callinicos, The Resources of Critique (Polity, 2006), £16.99 Alex Callinicos attempts to deal with important questions in this book. How is it possible for people conditioned by the structures of a certain society to go beyond… Continue Reading
A review of Henry Heller, The Bourgeois Revolution in France, 1789-1815 (Berghahn Books, 2006), £36.50 Marx and Engels were born into a world shaped by the French Revolution—literally so in the case of Marx, who grew up in the Rhineland… Continue Reading