A review of The Communist Women’s Movement 1920-1922: Proceedings, Resolutions and Reports, Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova (eds) (Brill, 2023), £164 The Communist Women’s Movement (CWM) is little known today, but it became a significant force in the international campaign… Continue Reading
A review of Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022) £29.99 Kohei Saito’s work on Marxism, socialism and ecology has become increasingly influential since his first book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital,… Continue Reading
A review of Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value, Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts (Pluto, 2022), £19.99 Any new book by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts is to be welcomed; both authors have had a long… Continue Reading
A review of Lessons in Organising: What Trade Unionists Can Learn from the War on Teachers, Gawain Little, Ellie Sharp, Howard Stevenson and David Wilson (Pluto, 2023), £9.99 The education system in England has changed markedly in the last 35… Continue Reading
A review of Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx (translated by Kevin B Anderson and Karel Ludenhof) (PM Press, 2022), £15.99 The need for the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by a socialist society based on human need… Continue Reading
A review of The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800, James D Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £75 From the 16th until the 19th century, the multifaceted process known as enclosure transformed England’s rural landscape.… Continue Reading
A review of The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini (Harper Collins, 2023), £20 Unsurprisingly, Angela Saini’s latest book has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from people who want to challenge sexism and who recognise the destructive global impact… Continue Reading
A review of The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, Oliver Eagleton (Verso), £12.99 Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown—a roll call of past Labour Party prime ministers hardly conjures up hope for… Continue Reading
A review of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Christopher Leonard (Simon and Schuster), £25 There is nothing better than a crisis when it comes to making money, but only if you are… Continue Reading
A review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow (Allen Lane, 2021), £11.99 Since its publication in 2021, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been greeted with extravagant… Continue Reading