Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency (Lexington, 2007), £17.99 Since the publication of the third volume of Capital in 1894 Karl Marx’s analysis has suffered at the hands not simply of those who openly… Continue Reading
Gregor Gall (ed), Is there a Scottish Road to Socialism? (Scottish Left Review, 2007), £9.99 Growing up in the West of Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s, I commonly heard people remark at election time that if you stood a… Continue Reading
The rapid growth of the Chinese economy is gaining admiration not just from the columnists of the Financial Times, but also from sections of the left internationally. So the Left Front government in West Bengal in India (see Aditya Sarkar… Continue Reading
David McNally, Another World is Possible (Merlin, 2007), £12.95 There is a war being waged over corporate globalisation. The leaders of the G8 countries tell us we must trust capitalism to solve the problems of war, poverty and climate change,… Continue Reading
Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian, Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War (Pluto, 2007), £17.99 There are two predominant images of Iran in the West. One is a racist depiction of Iran as a backward country of… Continue Reading
Andrew Brown, J D Bernal: The Sage of Science (Oxford University Press, 2007), £12.99 As a young reader of psychology, I was made to believe, through constant cajoling and the occasional threat of lost marks, that the consummate scientist was… Continue Reading
Eric H Mielants, The Origins of Capitalism and the “Rise of the West” (Temple University Press, 2007), £30 Over the past 30 years two views have dominated debates on the rise of capitalism in Europe. “World systems theory”, associated with… Continue Reading
Duncan Thompson, Pessimism of the Intellect? A History of New Left Review (Merlin), £16.95 To produce uninterruptedly, every two to three months, a socialist theoretical journal with a consistently high standard of analysis and commentary from 1960 to the present… Continue Reading
Bryan D Palmer, James P Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left 1890–1928 (University of Illinois, 2007), £29 For me the decisive moment in James P Cannon’s life was when he gave up his swivel chair. In 1928… Continue Reading
Barry McLoughlin, Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror (Irish Academic Press, 2007), £20 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union access to the Soviet archives has allowed historians to reconstruct the political and personal history of many… Continue Reading