A review of Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Continuum, 2004), £9.99 No argument about the kind of society we want can ignore the question of culture. Stalinism provided a bureaucratic parody of the relationship between culture… Continue Reading
A review of Hugh Roberts, The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002 (Verso, 2003), £17, and Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War (Hurst, 2000), £16.50 In December 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front, FIS, appeared to be on the verge of a remarkable victory… Continue Reading
A review of Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent (Harvard University Press, 2004), £35.95 What is the explanation for neo-liberalism sweeping aside nearly all other ways of running a capitalist economy in the last quarter century? This is something… Continue Reading
A review of Martha Gimenez and Lise Vogel (eds), Science and Society Special Issue: Marxist-Feminist Thought Today, vol 69, no 1 (January 2005), £3.50 Any effective challenge to women’s oppression must be based on a Marxist analysis—that is the central… Continue Reading
A review of Paul Foot, The Vote: How It was Won and How It was Undermined (Viking, 2005), £25 Let me suggest at the outset another sub-title for the late Paul Foot’s most informative book, The Vote: How It was… Continue Reading
A review of Pierre Broué, The German Revolution, 1917-1923, translated by John Archer, edited by Ian Birchall and Brian Pearce (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2005), Euro 129 ‘This not a German event. There no longer are any “German events”.’1… Continue Reading
Pierre Broué (1926-2005) who died in July, was one of the most important historians in the revolutionary socialist tradition. Broué became a Trotskyist in 1944. It was not an easy time. Militants faced lethal danger not only from the Nazi… Continue Reading
This October is the hundredth anniversary of one of the high points of the Russian Revolution of 1905—the strike wave that saw the formation of the world’s first soviet (workers’ council) in St Petersburg. In our New Year issue Mark… Continue Reading
A review of Claudio Katz, El Porvenir del Socialismo (The Future of Socialism), Herramiento, Buenos Aires The anti-capitalist movement since Seattle, the anti-war movement and the series of popular uprisings in Latin America have given new life to revolutionary Marxism… Continue Reading
The writer and critic Edward Said who died last year was admired by the whole anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. The image of this successful, western-educated, frail academic throwing a token stone against the Israeli forces… Continue Reading