Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance (Verso, 2014), £20 A Civil War is a detailed survey of the ideas and motivations of the partisans and their fascist enemies in Italy between 1943 and 1945.… Continue Reading
David R Roediger and Elizabeth D Esch, The Production of Difference: Race and Management of Labor in US History (Oxford University Press, 2014), £16.99 The history of American capitalism is inextricably bound to genocide, slavery and racism. In this book… Continue Reading
Jane McAlevey, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement (Verso, 2014), £9.99 Jane McAlevey’s book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), on the American labour movement is inspiring. This is a gutsy account of building union… Continue Reading
Paul Le Blanc, Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine (Haymarket, 2014), £12.99 Unfinished Leninism does two things: firstly, it argues the case for the relevance of Leninism to anyone who wants to seriously challenge capitalism and… Continue Reading
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2014), £20 On 21 September 2014 New York saw the biggest ever demonstration on climate change, a march of up to 400,000 that filled large areas of Central… Continue Reading
A review of Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (Africa World Press, 2013), £28.99, and Holger Weiss, Framing a Radical African Atlantic: African American Agency, West African Intellectuals and the International Trade Union… Continue Reading
A review of Philip Kaisary, The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints (University of Virginia Press, 2014), £25.50 Haiti is the country where Negro people stood up for the first time, affirming their determination to shape… Continue Reading
A W Zurbrugg (ed) Not Our War: Writings against the First World War (Merlin, 2014), £12.95 Not our War is the perfect antidote to renewed attempts by the spokespersons of the ruling class such as Michael Gove and Jeremy Paxman… Continue Reading
Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Verso, 2014), £7.99 Touted as a short, sharp polemic on the expansion of capital into every waking minute, 24/7 is a curiosity that promises much but delivers little. The main… Continue Reading
Daniel Bensaïd, An Impatient Life: A Political Memoir (Verso, 2013), £24.99 Daniel Bensaïd was, as Tariq Ali says in his foreword to this autobiography, “France’s leading Marxist public intellectual” until he died at the age of 63 in 2010. For… Continue Reading