New Left Review has produced an excellent spring number (II/74). The lead is a very timely and informative article on contemporary Russia by Tony Woods.1 He emphasises the extent to which the new regime continues to be shaped by the… Continue Reading
David Held, Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities (Polity, 2010), £15.99 History will tell whether David Held is best remembered for his role in developing the London School of Economics’ intimate relationship with the Gaddafi regime in Libya or for his voluminous… Continue Reading
Stephen Eric Bronner, Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (Columbia University Press, 2011), £20.50 In this second edition of his book Socialism Unbound, Stephen Eric Bronner argues that liberalism cannot provide answers to the continuing problems of capitalism, and that… Continue Reading
Prodromos Panayiotopoulos, Ethnicity, Migration and Enterprise (Palgrave, 2010), £58 Academia is constantly filled with new buzzwords. In the last decade, transnationalism has become a prominent new concept with numerous conferences and journals emerging that attempt to deal with this supposedly… Continue Reading
Domenico Losurdo, Liberalism: A Counter–History (Verso, 2011), £22 The Oxford English Dictionary defines liberalism as the “support for or advocacy of individual rights, civil liberties, and reform tending towards individual freedom, democracy, or social equality”. In his book Liberalism: A… Continue Reading
SS Prawer, Karl Marx and World Literature (Verso, 2011), £16.99 In a letter to his daughter Laura dated 11 April 1868, Marx wrote, “You’ll certainly fancy, my dear child, that I am very fond of books, because I trouble you… Continue Reading
Sasha Lilley (ed), Capital and its Discontents (PM Press, 2011), £14.99 This book is a collection of interviews with left wing intellectuals conducted by its editor Sasha Lilley. One of its strengths is that Lilley is constantly concerned with what… Continue Reading
David Campbell and Mark Durden, Variable Capital (Liverpool University Press, 2008), £28.50 The starting point for Variable Capital was an exhibition of the same name held at the Liverpool Bluecoat gallery in 2008. The book is not a catalogue though.… Continue Reading
David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Verso, 2012), £12.99 David Harvey has established himself as one of the most significant and influential thinkers in contemporary Marxist thought. Recordings of his reading groups… Continue Reading
A review of John Riddell (ed), Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922 (Brill, 2012), €199.00 Why, 90 years on, study the detailed proceedings of the Communist International (often known as the Comintern)?1… Continue Reading