Antonio Negri, Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project (Verso 2007), £6.99 In the postface to this work Antonio Negri recalls the confusion and incredulity with which it was met on first publication: ‘What could a Marxist do with… Continue Reading
Tony Collins, Rugby League in the Twentieth Century: A Social and Cultural History (Routledge, 2006), £23.99 Tony Collins’s excellent history of rugby league, from the split with rugby union in 1895 to the emergence of Rupert Murdoch’s Super League a… Continue Reading
A review of Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 (Merlin Press, 2006), £14.95 In the past few months many articles and books have discussed the disaster facing humanity as a result of… Continue Reading
Tom Sito, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson (University of Kentucky Press, 2006), £16.50 On 27 May 1941 one of Walt Disney’s top animators, Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, was… Continue Reading
Gareth Dale, Between State Capitalism and Globalisation: the Collapse of the East German Economy (Peter Lang, 2004), £30 Gareth Dale, Popular Protest in East Germany, 1945–1989 (Routledge, 2005), £65 Gareth Dale, The East German Revolution of 1989 (Manchester University Press,… Continue Reading
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are not an obvious starting point for the study of international relations. However, in the past few decades a group of radical scholars has drawn on his work to challenge the dominant ‘Realist’ perspective in this… Continue Reading
Those who want to present Antonio Gramsci as someone other than a revolutionary Marxist focus on the notebooks he wrote in prison. Gramsci wrote his Prison Notebooks under the surveillance of a fascist jailer and often felt compelled to disguise… Continue Reading
Lenin, Leon Trotsky, the young Soviet Republic and the Communist International saw Russia’s October Revolution as the prelude to a European revolution. Their hope and attention were focused primarily on Germany, but also on Italy. In April 1920 Giacinto Serrati,… Continue Reading
Since the mid-1970s academics have rarely considered Antonio Gramsci’s revolutionary activism. The emphasis has been on ‘a more subtle and academically assimilable Gramsci’,1 a figure whose later work is separated from his political development in the Italian city of Turin… Continue Reading
The violent conquest of power necessitates the creation by the party of the working class of an organisation of the military type…capable of wounding and inflicting grave blows on…the bourgeois state apparatus…at the decisive moment of struggle. Antonio Gramsci to… Continue Reading