A review of John Landers, The Field and the Forge (Oxford University Press, 2005), £22.50 This book is an account of the transition from what John Landers calls the ‘organic economy’, that is an economy based on agrarian production with… Continue Reading
A review of China Mieville, Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2005), Euro 69 Did Tony Blair break international law in his support for the American invasion of Iraq? Could he be… Continue Reading
A review of Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003), £16.99 and Lyndall Gordon, Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus (Virago, 2005), £25 Over 200 years after her death at the young age of 38 the life, writings… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Barratt Brown, From Tito to Milosevic: Yugoslavia, a lost country (Merlin Press, 2005), £;14.95 During the Cold War, Tito’s Yugoslavia held a special place in the hearts of many on the left who regarded it as… Continue Reading
The commission was chaired by Bob Geldof and headed by prime minister Tony Blair, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown, and minister for international development Hilary Benn. It also included: Michel Camdessus, who as managing director of the IMF until… Continue Reading
Towards the end of the 1980s and early 1990s strikes, riots and demonstrations forced 19 one-party states in Africa to institutionalise a democratic opposition. But the headlong rush into neo-liberalism and continued structural adjustment policies somewhat de-֊legitimised the ‘birth of… Continue Reading
In the latest issue of Irish Marxist Review (issue 16) Kieran Allen asks why Ireland has become one of the world’s premier tax havens, highlighted earlier this year by the political establishment’s refusal to force Apple to pay 13 billion… Continue Reading
A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (Haymarket, 2016),£15.99 China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance is an exciting and illuminating book focused on the labour struggles waged by… Continue Reading
A review of Joel Busher, The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest: Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League (Routledge, 2015), £95 In The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest Joel Busher attempts to understand the growth of the fascist English Defence League (EDL)… Continue Reading
A review of John Riddell (editor and translator), To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 (Brill/Haymarket, 2016), £39.99 To the Masses is the last volume of a hugely ambitious project to make the proceedings… Continue Reading