Something remarkable happened over the summer of 2015. Immediately after Ed Miliband resigned following Labour’s defeat in the general election, the grip exercised by Blairism over the Labour Party had seemed set to continue grimly on. The field competing for… Continue Reading
For the fourth time in less than a decade and half the UK is at war, and once again the vast majority of the victims will be Muslims. Bolstered by the votes and voices of the Labour right, on 2… Continue Reading
In May 1970 a group of prominent Harvard academics with considerable government experience, led by the game theorist Thomas Schelling, went to the White House to meet their ex-colleague, Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser to president Richard Nixon. They… Continue Reading
September’s Monthly Review features an article by Ian Angus on the Anthropocene, a proposed new geological epoch defined by the human influence on the Earth. Some Marxists have flatly rejected the notion of the Anthropocene (see Andreas Malm, “The Anthropocene… Continue Reading
P. Sean Brotherton, Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (Duke University Press, 2012), £16.99 Cuba is back in the international news. In December 2014, it was announced that relations between Cuba and the United States were “thawing”;… Continue Reading
Lucia Pradella and Thomas Marois (eds), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto Press, 2014), £22 Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall neoliberalism has dominated the global economy. The philosophy of TINA (There is No Alternative) became… Continue Reading
Henryk Grossman, Fifty Years of Struggle over Marxism 1883-1932 (Marxist Left Review, 2014), £9.99 The classic Fifty Years of Struggle over Marxism 1883-1932 by Henryk Grossman has recently been translated by Rick Kuhn and Einde O’Callaghan. Originally published as an… Continue Reading
Miriam Frank, Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America (Temple University Press, 2014), £20.99 In the past year there has been increased interest, both in the academy and in the broad left, in notions of solidarity between… Continue Reading
Howard Eiland and Michael W Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Harvard University Press, 2014), £25 At 700 pages, Walter Eiland and Michael W Jennings’s Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life is the most complete biography available of this fascinating writer… Continue Reading
Leo Panitch and Greg Albo (eds), Socialist Register 2015: Transforming Classes (Merlin Press, 2014), £16.95 The 2015 edition of Socialist Register discusses class formation, class politics and class strategies today in relation to questions of gender and oppression. It is… Continue Reading