Dave Lyddon, who published a history of resistance to anti-strike laws in our autumn 2023 issue, has produced another article, developing arguments around the same themes for the Workers of the World journal (volume 1, number 11). Entitled, “Three Hundred… Continue Reading
A review of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, volume 3: Political Writings 1, On Revolution 1897-1905, Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz and William A Pelz (eds) (Verso), £70 and The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, volume 4: Political Writings 2,… Continue Reading
A review of Radek: A Novel, Stefan Heym (Monthly Review Press, 2022), £20 Who was Karl Radek? At one point in this epic work of historical fiction, Radek refers to himself as belonging to “the second rank” of Bolshevik revolutionaries,… Continue Reading
A review of Duncan Hallas: Indomitable Revolutionary—A Tribute, Alex Callinicos, Sheila McGregor, Jack Robertson, John Rudge and Dave Sherry (Bookmarks, 2023), £12 In a time of multiple crises and a growing pull towards socialist politics, this new book, presenting the… Continue Reading
A review of World Crisis: Essays in Revolutionary Socialism, Nigel Harris and John Palmer (eds) (Routledge, 2022), £27.99 The best ever collection of writings from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)—or the International Socialists, as it was known at the time—was… Continue Reading
A review of Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality, Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale (Oxford University Press, 2023), £25 Anthropology, since its inception, has been an ideologically contested discipline, and the same is true of both primatology… Continue Reading
A review of Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14, Ralph Darlington (Pluto, 2023), £19.99 “There has never before been a series of three consecutive years marked as a whole by such widespread industrial unrest”.1 This comment from Labour Gazette demonstrates the… Continue Reading
A review of The New Age of Catastrophe, Alex Callinicos (Polity, 2022) £18 Alex Callinicos’s The New Age of Catastrophe is a hugely important book. Capitalism depends on divide and rule and is endlessly inventive in that regard. In the… Continue Reading
I am pleased that Matt Vidal has responded to my review of his book, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management, giving me a chance to state in a clearer fashion some of the issues I have with his approach.1 These… Continue Reading
Twenty years ago, amid the seemingly diminishing shadow of Stalinism, qualitative rightward shifts by social-democratic parties and the emergence of new left-wing parties, there was a lively debate about these new formations and how revolutionaries should relate to them.1 History… Continue Reading