A review of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024), £14.99 Some years ago, I was at a Celtic Connections folk concert in Glasgow. Following what seemed like an endless succession of dreary songs lamenting… Continue Reading
A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics, Margaret Renn (Verso Books, 2024), £30.00 It always seems that an anniversary with a zero at the end is a good time for a biography. It is therefore appropriate that the… Continue Reading
A review of No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change by Matt Clement (ed) (Zero, 2023), £22.99 It is estimated that more than 600 people are killed by law enforcement each year in the United States.… Continue Reading
A review of Seán O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer, Paul O’Brien (Cork University Press), £45.00 “May you live in interesting times!” Whether offered as a blessing or a curse, this well-worn phrase certainly applied to the life of the great… Continue Reading
A review of Lessons in George Orwell and Russia: 2+2=5, Masha Karp (Bloomsbury, 2023), £21.99 No 20th century British author has been more written about than Eric Arthur Blair, famous under his pen-name George Orwell. Still, for those interested in… Continue Reading
A review of The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon, Alessandro Delfanti (Pluto, 2021), £19.99 After his brief space journey in July 2021, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos said, with disarming frankness, “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every… Continue Reading
A review of Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 3: The Law of Accumulation and the Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being Also a Theory of Crises, Henryk Grossman (Haymarket, 2022), £50 Henryk Grossman’s The Law of Accumulation and the Breakdown of… Continue Reading
A review of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, volume 3: Political Writings 1, On Revolution 1897-1905, Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz and William A Pelz (eds) (Verso), £70 and The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, volume 4: Political Writings 2,… Continue Reading
A review of Radek: A Novel, Stefan Heym (Monthly Review Press, 2022), £20 Who was Karl Radek? At one point in this epic work of historical fiction, Radek refers to himself as belonging to “the second rank” of Bolshevik revolutionaries,… Continue Reading
A review of Duncan Hallas: Indomitable Revolutionary—A Tribute, Alex Callinicos, Sheila McGregor, Jack Robertson, John Rudge and Dave Sherry (Bookmarks, 2023), £12 In a time of multiple crises and a growing pull towards socialist politics, this new book, presenting the… Continue Reading