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“Traffic wardens, soldiers, gardeners…”

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews class theory, Poulantzas, Working class

An incitement to revolution

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews Germany, Peasants' revolt, reformation

Contesting two centuries of reactionary feminism

Posted on 16th July 2025 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews feminism, trans rights, women's liberation

From value to uneven development

Posted on 13th May 2025 by International Socialism

A review of From Value to Uneven Development: Selected writings by John Weeks in the Marxist tradition edited by Ben Fine, Simon Mohun, Alfredo Saad-Filho (Brill, 2024), £110 This book brings together a selection of the theoretical writings of the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews John Weeks, uneven development, value theory

Escaping from history?

Posted on 9th May 2025 by International Socialism

A review of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (John Murray Press, 2023) Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian journalist and liberal Zionist who accused Corbyn of antisemitism. Currently, he… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Auschwitz, Holocaust, Israel

“The circle of death of the counter-revolution”: allied intervention in Bolshevik Russia

Posted on 7th May 2025 by International Socialism

A review of A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid (John Murray Press, 2024), £12.99 From 1918 to 1920, a total of 180,000 allied troops conducted an undeclared war to overthrow the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Bolsheviks, civil war, imperialism

Race, capitalism and the spectre of Marx

Posted on 5th May 2025 by International Socialism

A review of The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World by Kehinde Andrews (Allen Lane, 2023), £10.99 What is Anti-racism? And Why it Means Anti-capitalism by Arun Kundnani (Verso, 2023), £16.99 The Black Lives Matter Movement… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, Slavery

Making sense of China’s rise

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

A review of China: Rise, Repression and Resistance by Adrian Budd (Bookmarks, 2024), £10 What is the history, politics and nature of the Chinese regime? Adrian Budd’s book, China: Rise, Repression and Resistance provides an excellent and in-depth answer. Regularly,… Continue Reading →

Book reviews BRICS, China, state capitalism

Putting the Banality of Evil on Screen

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

A review of The Zone of Interest (2023, Jonathan Glazer) Steven Spielberg said that Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, based on Martin Amis’s book of the same name, was the best film about the Holocaust since his own… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Arendt, Film, Holocaust

Neurodiversity, capitalism and class

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

A review of Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman (Pluto Press, 2023), £14.99 Over recent years, neurodiversity has become a major social phenomenon in the societies of the Global North.1 A rapid growth in the number of those seeking or… Continue Reading →

Book reviews ADHD, Autism, Neurodiversity

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