A review of Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation Grace Blakeley (Repeater, 2017), £10.99. Stolen is a very comprehensive and readable account of the roots of financialisation in the 1970s crisis, which ended the “golden age”… Continue Reading
A review of Donny Gluckstein and Terry Sullivan, Hegel and Revolution (Bookmarks, 2020), £7. The thought of G W F Hegel might seem like an odd topic of conversation for Marxists. By the time he died in 1831, Hegel had… Continue Reading
A review of Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disturbing the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018), £18.99 It is a truism that, in the era of economic globalisation, capital needs to circulate without disruption. The complex network… Continue Reading
A review of Geoff Mann, In The Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution (Verso, 2019), £14.99 Geoff Mann’s (sympathetic) critique of John Maynard Keynes—“the most influential economist of the 20th Century”—is worth reading for two… Continue Reading
A review of Richard J Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown, 2019), £35 Breadth and verve made Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) the most sold and most translated of socialist historians ever to write in English. Compared with his… Continue Reading
A review of Carl Ratner and Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva (eds), Vygotsky and Marx: Toward a Marxist Psychology (Routledge, 2017), £33.99 Lev Vygotsky was a brilliant psychologist and educationalist who played several important roles in advising and representing the new… Continue Reading
A review of Oliver Nachtwey, Germany’s Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe (Verso, 2018), £16.99 Oliver Nachtwey’s book sets out to examine the truth of the central ideological myths of the German economy. First, that Germany is… Continue Reading
A review of Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Penguin, 2019), £12.99 I won’t say kowtow…but at least be nice to the countries that lend you money—Gao Xiqing, Head of the Chinese Sovereign Wealth… Continue Reading
A review of Raquel Varela, A People’s History of the Portuguese Revolution (Pluto Press, 2019), £19.99 Portugal’s revolution of 1974 to 1975 was the most powerful and inspiring example of a revolutionary process to have taken place in Europe since… Continue Reading
A review of Peter Linebaugh, Red Round Globe Hot Burning (University of California Press, 2019), £27 Peter Linebaugh’s book comes with a long subtitle, a pithy summary of its contents: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of… Continue Reading