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Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

International Socialism has, over recent issues, argued that the world is in a grip of a “triple crisis”—expressed through the pandemic, economic disorder and ecological destruction. Across the Atlantic, John Bellamy Foster, the editor of the United States-based Monthly Review,… Continue Reading →

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Revisiting non-violence

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Talat Ahmed, Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience, Pluto (2019), £12.99. For readers who know little of India’s history and its “founding father”, Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience is an excellent choice. Talat Ahmed provides a… Continue Reading →

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Marxism beyond the binaries

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Laura Miles, Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the Fight for Trans Liberation, Bookmarks (2020), £10. It is rare indeed to get an extended, detailed account of the challenges that are faced by a highly marginalised social group across… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews

Putting the sin into syncopation

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Gerald Horne, Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music, Monthly Review Press (2019), £22. Jazz has an unfortunate reputation these days.1 It is often seen as “high culture”, something to be respected rather… Continue Reading →

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Vere Gordon Childe and prehistory: a way of thinking, and much more

Posted on 6th January 2021 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Terry Irving, The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe, Monash University Publishing (2020), £25.99. World-renowned archaeologist, prehistorian and linguist Vere Gordon Childe’s career spanned three decades from 1925 until 1957. He… Continue Reading →

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Can we understand the Holocaust?

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Enzo Traverso, Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History, IIRE (2019), £17. Can Marxism help us to understand the Holocaust? Marxism is a body of theoretical and experiential understanding that tries… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, Second World War, The Holocaust

The Bolsheviks and antisemitism

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, Cambridge University Press (2019), £22.99 Brendan McGeever’s meticulously researched book uncovers truly shocking revelations about the scale of antisemitism during the civil war that followed the October 1917 Russian Revolution.1… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Jewish Labour Bund

Logistical nightmares

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Verso (2020), £20. “Maritime trade, logistics and hydrocarbon transport,” Laleh Khalili argues in this detailed and enjoyable book, “are the clearest distillation of… Continue Reading →

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Fully automated theory

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, The People’s Republic of Walmart: How The World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundations for Socialism, Verso (2019), £9.99, and Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Verso (2019), £16.99. In The People’s… Continue Reading →

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Power and petroleum in the Arabian peninsula

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of David Wearing, AngloArabia, Wiley (2018), £15.99. It is now 50 years since Britain formally ended its colonial rule in the Persian Gulf. However, David Wearing’s AngloArabia shows that the relationship between the British state and the Gulf… Continue Reading →

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