“Sarkozy, Brown, Merkel. Neoliberalism has its people in power in the main European countries and is free to proceed full speed ahead as it wishes.” That, in effect, is what the optimistic capitalist commentators are saying, and this view finds… Continue Reading
Is Gordon Brown going to run into an unexpected obstacle in his first weeks in office—a sudden revival of class struggle after the low ebb since the firefighters’ strike of four years ago? It seems very possible as we go… Continue Reading
The following interview was conducted with Orlando Chirino, national organiser of the UNT union federation in Venezuela and leader of C-Cura—the United Autonomous Revolutionary Class current—within the federation. It came after Chavez proposed the formation of a new unified Venezuelan… Continue Reading
David Harvey’s recent books The New Imperialism and A Brief History of Neoliberalism (reviewed here) have been influential in shaping understanding of these issues, and some of his ideas have been subject to rigorous critical scrutiny from a range of… Continue Reading
Paul Le Blanc, Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalisation (Routledge, 2006), £18.99 The generation of radicals thrown up by the anti-capitalist movement since the 1999 Seattle protest and the mass… Continue Reading
Edwin Bacon with Matthew Wyman, Contemporary Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), £16.99 Stephen Lovell, Destination in Doubt: Russia since 1989 (Zed books, 2006), £12.99 Craig Murray, Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror… Continue Reading
Keith Flett, Chartism After 1848: the Working Class and the Politics of Radical Education (Merlin Press, 2006), £15.95 During the 1830s and 1840s one of the best organised, most militant and popular working class movements in British history rocked early… Continue Reading
Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism (University of Illinois Press, 2007), £14.99 Sometimes exploring Marxist theory seems a bit like archaeology. It is necessary to do a lot of digging to find forgotten treasures of original thought… Continue Reading
Louis Althusser, Politics and History (Verso, 2007), £6.99 The renewed and growing interest in Marxist ideas since the birth of the anti‑capitalist movement has prompted Verso to republish a number of texts under its Radical Thinkers series. The latest set… Continue Reading
Zbigniew Brzezinksi, Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Basic Books, 2007), £15.99 The Bush administration has either not read or not heeded Zbigniew Brzezinski’s previous book on US strategy, The Grand Chessboard. In his latest, Brzezinski… Continue Reading