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What Social Reproduction Theory sees in Gaza and what it misses

Posted on 18th October 2026 by International Socialism

A review of Making Death and Life in Palestine: Social Reproduction in Settler Colonialism edited by Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson (Pluto Press, 2025), £18.99 This volume is part of a series of publications written from the standpoint of social… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Palestine, social reproduction, Women's oppression

A handbook for the anti-imperialist struggle

Posted on 16th October 2026 by International Socialism

A review of Death Rides Out: Imperialism in the 21st Century by Tomáš Tengely-Evans (Bookmarks, 2026), £10 We live in a time of deep crisis: the potential bursting of the AI bubble threatens to further destabilise an already fragile global… Continue Reading →

Book reviews China, imperialism, Lenin

The mind of the plantation owner

Posted on 15th October 2026 by International Socialism

A review of Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2024), £26.99 Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, excavates the economic, social and political context… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Racism, Slavery, USA

What can we learn from the Anti Nazi League?

Posted on 15th July 2026 by International Socialism

A review of A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League (1977-1981) by Geoff Brown (Bookmarks, 2025), £12 The ascendancy of far-right and fascist forces in different parts of the world is one of the most significant features of the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti Nazi League, far right, Fascism

Breaking our chains in an age of catastrophe

Posted on 15th July 2026 by International Socialism

A review of Breaking Our Chains: Women, Marxism and the Path to Liberation by Sarah Bates, Judy Cox and Sally Campbell (bookmarks, 2026), £10.00 “It’s the pussy-grabbers’ world—we just live in it,” quipped Marina Hyde back in February 2026.1 It… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Friedrich Engels, oppression, women's liberation

The German Peasants’ War: masculinity, realists and utopians

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews Middle Ages, peasants, Peasants' revolt

The herd of elephants in the room

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews A L Morton, Communist Party, stalinism

The last years of Karl Marx: global perspectives and revolutionary potentials

Posted on 10th April 2026 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews Eurocentrism, Karl Marx, women's liberation

Palestinian history: a tool for liberation

Posted on 19th October 2025 by International Socialism

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 →

Book reviews History, Liberation, Palestine

The poetry of the future

Posted on 18th October 2025 by International Socialism

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 →

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