The 2012 issue of Socialist Register is entitled The Crisis and The Left. It contains a number of interesting pieces alongside a symposium on the eurozone crisis. It leads with an article by David Harvey on the urban roots of… Continue Reading
Alan Thornett, Militant Years: Car Worker Struggles in Britain in the 60s and 70s (Resistance Books, 2011), £12 Recently promoting Militant Years, an account of car worker militancy in the 1960s and 1970s, Alan Thornett described his book as a… Continue Reading
John Molyneux, Anarchism: A Marxist Criticism (Bookmarks, 2011), £4 John Molyneux’s book is timely for two reasons. Firstly, we are living in the time of mass revolt in Europe and revolutionary change in the Middle East. What activists do, be… Continue Reading
Marcel van der Linden, Workers of the World: Essays Towards a Global Labor History (Brill, 2010), €137 Marcel van der Linden embarks on an ambitious project with Workers of the World. The book collects essays that aim towards the creation… Continue Reading
Sean Sayers, Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes (Palgrave, 2011), £50 Marx’s theory of alienation has been somewhat out of fashion in the past few decades. This is, in part, because of the degree to which his theory is… Continue Reading
Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (University of California Press, 2011), £34.95 Everyone has a regret that they didn’t ask elderly relatives to tell their story before they died. Hershatter had the same realisation… Continue Reading
István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, volume 1: The Social Determination of Method (Monthly Review Press, 2010), £20, and Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, volume 2: The Dialectic of Structure and History (Monthly Review Press, 2011), £20… Continue Reading
David Stubbs, Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero, 2010), £9.99_ The Tate Modern is one of the biggest cultural attractions in the UK, welcoming over five million visitors a year.1 Thousands flocked to see… Continue Reading
In a recent and reasonably popular biography, Tristram Hunt charges Friedrich Engels with a series of class and gender contradictions: he condemned prostitution but enjoyed it himself; he looked askance at marriage and yet married Lizzy Burns on her deathbed;… Continue Reading
The tag “Beat Generation” mostly refers to a generation of authors and poets, although it is a very flexible epithet. You could easily include various contemporary painters, musicians and so on.1 They were a pioneering example of a shift in… Continue Reading