A review of Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015), £12.99 Inventing the Future is a welcome intervention into the growing debate about how we can move beyond capitalism. The authors… Continue Reading
A review of Maha Abdelrahman, Egypt’s Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings (Routledge, 2015), £34.99 This book was written as the Egyptian Revolution unfolded. Its author experienced the hopes and anxieties of tens of millions of people, sharing “moments of… Continue Reading
My previous piece on the German Revolution in International Socialism 1491 was prompted by John Rose’s argument at his meeting at Marxism 2014 that the revolution was effectively over by January 1919.2 My article was not an attempt to provide… Continue Reading
Rob Murthwaite’s review of my book A Very Capitalist Condition: A History and Politics of Disability endorses its general approach that disability discrimination is rooted in the development and continued existence of capitalist society.1 However, I want to respond to… Continue Reading
A review of Steve Cushion, A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £20.42 and Jane Franklin, Cuba and the US Empire: A Chronological History (Monthly Review Press, 2016),… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Helquist, Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions (Oregon State University Press, 2015), £19 On May Day 1950 the dockers’ union in Portland, Oregon, presented a bouquet of 13 red roses and a poem to 78-year-old… Continue Reading
A review of Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Penguin, 2016), £35 In 1972 the Cambridge historian Gareth Stedman Jones wrote a foreword to the English edition of Werner Blumenberg’s useful biography of Karl Marx. Here he criticised… Continue Reading
Technical advances in new information and communication technologies (ICT) have led to debates on the left about the impact of digitalisation on the world of work. Alongside digitalisation and advances in interactive web-based communication, we have also witnessed new advances… Continue Reading
The First World War is still widely perceived to be a white man’s war based on the Western front. Popular images of brave young white men dying for king and country dominate museum exhibits. But some 4 million non-white men… Continue Reading
We tend to forget the importance of the experience of people participating in historical events. The mainstream political literature presents 1945 in Eastern Europe as a Russian occupation that gradually forced a rootless system on a reluctant and recalcitrant population… Continue Reading