A review of Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom by Philip Marfleet (Bookmarks, 2025), £10 Publication of Philip Marfleet’s Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom comes in the context of almost two years of genocide enacted against the… Continue Reading
A review of The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by Jasper Bernes (Verso, 2025), £16.99 Jasper Bernes’ fascinating new book is a long history of the workers’ council— long because it… Continue Reading
Donald Trump has won the United States presidency twice by channelling the anger of millions of mainly white Americans towards the neoliberal elite—despite being part of that elite. Conspiracy theories help address and obscure the contradiction between Trump articulating this… Continue Reading
Keir Starmer’s Labour is suffering an identity crisis. His government’s first year in office has combined a resurrection of old Blairite policies with an apparent rejection of Blairism’s embrace of globalisation, a turn to greater state intervention, and lurches to… Continue Reading
Forces on the British left are finally stirring. The announcement of Your Party, albeit long-awaited, organisationally fraught and with an uncertain future, has shown the strong support for socialist politics. At the time of writing, 900,000 people had signed up… Continue Reading
The horrors accompanying the breakdown of earlier methods of managing and organising global capitalism were very much in evidence this autumn.1 The genocide in Gaza most starkly symbolises this—but ongoing ecological disruption, combined with grinding economic stagnation across most of… Continue Reading
Alasdair MacIntyre, who died on 21 May 2025, aged 96, was an influential philosopher. His most famous book, After Virtue, first published in 1981, is a landmark in moral philosophy. MacIntyre converted to Catholicism several decades ago but, in an… Continue Reading
A review of Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector (two volumes) by Alexander Gallas (Bristol University Press, 2024), £80 and £85 Until the 1990s, social theory attached importance to the influence of work and to… Continue Reading
A review of The Time of the Harvest Has Come: Revolution, Reformation and the German Peasants’ War by Martin Empson (Bookmarks, 2025), £12 Five hundred years ago, tens of thousands of peasants took to the roads and marched across great… Continue Reading
A review of Enemy Feminism: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (Haymarket, 2025), £14.99 I finished reading Enemy Feminism on the day the British Supreme Court ruled that equal rights legislation applied exclusively to biological sex. Watching… Continue Reading