The autumn issue of the MENA Solidarity Campaign’s quarterly magazine, Middle East Solidarity features reports from Anne Alexander and Tom Kay on the workers in Mahalla al-Kubra in Egypt who took strike action in August last year, and from Gianni… Continue Reading
A review of Harold Rosen, Writings on Life, Language and Learning, 1958-2008 (edited and with an introduction by John Richmond) (UCL Institute of Education Press, 2017), £24.99. To begin on a personal note, I met Harold Rosen for the first… Continue Reading
A review of Krishna Dronamraju, Popularizing Science: The Life and Work of JBS Haldane (Oxford University Press, 2017), £22.99. On 22 April 2017 thousands of people around the world joined demonstrations in defence of science. Many of them were, and… Continue Reading
A review of Gregor Gall, Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography (Manchester University Press, 2017), £20. In a period of retreat and demoralisation for the trade union movement, Bob Crow and the RMT union he led have been… Continue Reading
A review of Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins, The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts (Manchester University Press, 2017), £9.99. Opening a new building at the London School of Economics in November 2008, the Queen… Continue Reading
A review of Matt Clement, A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), £65. Dr Martin Luther King once described riots as “the language of the unheard”. The great civil rights… Continue Reading
A review of Dan Plesch, Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes (Georgetown University Press, 2017), £23. The international tribunal in Nuremberg brought some of the leading Nazis responsible for the Holocaust before military courts.… Continue Reading
A review of Bernard Goldstein, Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland (Purdue University Press, 2016), £55.50. On 26 September 1936, Polish fascists attacked the offices of the Jewish Labour Bund in Warsaw. The building… Continue Reading
A review of Penny McCall Howard, Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: “Working the Ground” in Scotland (Manchester University Press, 2017), £75. In the 21st century, 27 million people around the world catch fish for a living which is worth… Continue Reading
A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both and Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both… Continue Reading