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Book reviews

Rescuing Lenin

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

A review of Tariq Ali, The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Verso (2017), £16.99 Can we rescue Lenin for the 21st century? In this the year of the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution we have to… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Lenin, Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution: tragedy or inspiration?

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

A review of S A Smith, Russia in Revolution : An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford University Press, 2017), £25, Neil Faulkner, A People’s History of the Russian Revolution (Pluto Press/Left Book Club, 2017), £12.99 and Mark D… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Russian Revolution

Understanding the riot/strike cycle

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Joshua Clover, Riot. Strike. Riot: The new era of uprisings Verso (2016), £20 Joshua Clover identifies a cycle of struggle occurring over the centuries which he categorises respectively as riot, strike and “riot prime”. Riots first occurred… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Riots, the working class

Orthodox economics: The dismal future?

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Ben Fine, Microeconomics: A Critical Companion Pluto Press (2016), £17.50 and Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou Macroeconomics: A Critical Companion Pluto Press (2016), £17.50 Writing in the mid-19th century, British historian Thomas Carlyle described economics as the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics

System of a down

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Michael Roberts, The Long Depression, Haymarket (2016), £14.99 Can the man who predicted the start of the economic crisis say how it will end? That’s the bold ambition of Michael Roberts’s book The Long Depression. It combines… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics

Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti-racism, decolonisation, Frantz Fanon

Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Ursula Huws, Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age (Monthly Review Press, 2014), £15 and Nick Dyer-Witheford, Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex (Pluto Press, 2015), £15.99 If Karl Marx were writing… Continue Reading →

Book reviews digital labour, political economy

A fighter who got lost

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Hugh Purcell, The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949 (Sutton, 2000), £20 ‘You probably have not heard of Tom Wintringham,’ writes Hugh Purcell, ‘but by the time you have finished this book I hope you will agree… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Communist Party

Novel insights

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Julian Markels, The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature (Monthly Review Press, 2003), £15 Julian Markels’ book participates in a long-standing debate about the relationship between Marxism, class and literature. It sets itself apart, however, from many… Continue Reading →

Book reviews literature

Booms, slumps and theory

Posted on 10th January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Pavel V Maksakovsky, The Capitalist Cycle (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2004), Euro 59 There was a flourishing of Marxist intellectual life in the Russia of the mid-1920s that was wiped out with the final triumph of… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics

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