Nathan Lean, The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims (Pluto Press, 2012), £12.50 Nathan Lean’s book is a most welcome riposte to the Muslim scare stories that saturate our media, firstly by uncovering the falsity behind these… Continue Reading
Dave Zirin, Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy (Haymarket, 2014), £11.99 Dave Zirin is a left wing sports writer from the United States who has written extensively on the Olympics, including… Continue Reading
Philip Mendes, Jews and the Left: the Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), £65, and Paul Kelemen, The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce (Manchester University Press, 2012), £15.99 These two books, one concentrating… Continue Reading
Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds), Socialist Register 2014: Registering Class (Merlin Press, 2013), £16.95 Discussion of classes, how they form, their composition and how they can act consciously have featured on the left since the time of… Continue Reading
Andro Linklater, Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership (Bloomsbury, 2014), £20 Throughout our history humans have had many different ways of using land. Alongside this, the question of ownership has also changed dramatically. For the vast majority… Continue Reading
Aaron Edwards, Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire (Mainstream Publishing, 2014), £20 On 3 July 1967 the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, under the command of Colonel Colin “Mad” Mitchell, reoccupied the town of Crater in Aden.… Continue Reading
A review of Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, 2012), £20 As the world commemorates the centenary of the First World War (with limited awareness of its meaning) a… Continue Reading
A review of Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (Verso, 2013), £19.99 Postcolonial theory has been the dominant intellectual trend within academia relating to studies of imperialism, decolonisation and the legacy of empire for the last two… Continue Reading
Robin Bunce and Paul Field, Darcus Howe: A Political Biography, (Bloomsbury, 2014), £54.99 This fascinating political biography of Darcus Howe will teach even the most knowledgeable of students of Caribbean history and the struggles of the diaspora many valuable lessons.… Continue Reading
Paulo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets (Pluto Press, 2012), £15 Are social media a substitute for a revolutionary paper? Is the social network a substitute for a revolutionary party? These are some of the questions Paulo Gerbaudo attempts to answer.… Continue Reading