A review of Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper (Basic Books, 2025), £14.99 The year 2025 marked the commemoration of the Peasants’ War. Five hundred years ago, in 1524-5, a huge uprising swept across… Continue Reading
A review ofA L Morton and the Radical Tradition by James Crossley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), £109.99 Arthur Leslie Morton is best known as the author of A People’s History of England, first published by the Left Book Club in 1938.… Continue Reading
A review of The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto (Stanford University Press, 2020), £18.89 And The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson (Verso, 2025), £19.99 More than… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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