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A psychodynamic approach to a new party?

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party (Verso, 2016), £16.99 In 2011 huge Occupy movements, inspired by the Arab Spring, appeared around the world. Jodi Dean was involved in the New York events and she makes these the starting… Continue Reading →

Book reviews The party

An irrational system

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Profile Books, 2017), £14.99 In Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey uses his extensive knowledge of Karl Marx’s writings to review the sad… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Capital, political economy

Battle lines drawn

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Kim Moody, On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket, 2017), £15.99 The centrality of the working class to capitalism through the production of surplus value and consequently its power ultimately to… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Class, The United States

Post-capitalism in commons?

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Massimo De Angelis, Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (Zed, 2017), £16.99 Omnia Sunt Communia forms part of a series envisioning a non-dystopian end to capitalism. Recent years have seen a number… Continue Reading →

Book reviews post-capitalism, The commons

Trotskyology

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of John Kelly, Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain (Routledge, 2018), £29.99 Leon Trotsky, the organiser of the October 1917 insurrection and founder of the Red Army, cannot be dismissed by anyone lightly. However, amid… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Leon Trotsky, Trotskyism

Labouring under no illusions

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Raju J Das, Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Haymarket, 2018), £43.99 This book, by Raju Das, is among the most important works on Marxist class theory to appear in recent decades.1 As the title suggests,… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Class

How not to resist racism: a lesson from France

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Jim Wolfreys, Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France (Hurst, 2018), £14.99 This April, French president Emmanuel Macron urged Catholic bishops to “engage once again” with the “political scene” and “repair” the relationship between… Continue Reading →

Book reviews France, Islamophobia, Racism

Rural rebellion

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Martin Empson, Kill all the Gentlemen: Class Struggle and Change in the English Countryside (Bookmarks, 2018), £14.99 When Karl Marx analysed the birth of capitalism he drew attention to what he called the primitive accumulation of capital.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Environment, History, Peasants' revolt

A “choice” moment

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Judith Orr, Abortion Wars: The Fight for Reproductive Rights (Policy Press, 2017), £12.99 Abortion is as old as womanhood. Throughout history, abortion has been a necessary and accepted part of women’s lives. However, rights to abortion have… Continue Reading →

Book reviews abortion rights, Ireland

German Marxism and the Holocaust

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Horst Haenisch, Faschismus und der Holocaust: Versuch einer Erklärung (Edition Aurora, 2017), €8.50 The Holocaust is unusual in gaining more prominence as more time has passed since it occurred. Two reasons for this stand out. Few expected… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, The Holocaust

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From our archives

The roots of gay oppression (Norah Carlin 1989)
The ‘workers’ government (Chris Harman 1977)
A critique of Nicos Poulantzas (Colin Barker 1979)
Theories of Patriarchy (Lindsey German 1981)
Mike Kidron on Marxist political economy (1974)
The State and Capital (Chris Harman 1991)
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