Michael Lavalette (ed), Capitalism and Sport: Politics, Protest, People and Play (Bookmarks, 2013), £9.99 Modern sport is often criticised by socialists for reflecting, or worse, perpetuating aspects of capitalist culture. While there are chapters in Capitalism and Sport that discuss… Continue Reading
Brian Richardson (ed), Say It Loud! Marxism and the Fight Against Racism (Bookmarks, 2013), £9.99 What is racism? Where does it come from? Why has it remained prevalent despite the changes to society? How best can we fight it? These… Continue Reading
Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE–1492CE (Bodley Head, 2013), £25 This book’s greatest strength is that it tackles the plethora of fresh archaeological evidence that is challenging some taken for granted assumptions about Jewish history.… Continue Reading
Sheila Cohen, Notoriously Militant: The Story of a Union Branch at Ford Dagenham (Merlin Press, 2013), £15.95 Along the stretch of the Thames Estuary that runs from Barking and the North Circular at one end, along the A13 to Thurrock… Continue Reading
A review of Tony Juniper, What has Nature ever done for us? How Money really does grow on Trees (Profile Books, 2013), £9.99, and George Monbiot, Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (Allen Lane, 2013), £11.99 In… Continue Reading
Tim Pringle, Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest (Routledge, 2013), £26.99 When workers at the Nanhai Honda car plant in China’s Pearl River Delta went on strike in 2010, they first had to fight off a gang… Continue Reading
Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche (Free Press, 2010), £9.99, and Gary Greenberg, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease (Bloomsbury, 2010), £9.99 In May last year the American Psychiatric Association (APA) launched… Continue Reading
Erik S McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Duke University Press, 2011), £15.99 The radical and significant work of early Communist Party members is written out of mainstream history. Erik S… Continue Reading
Claudio Sopranzetti, Red Journeys (Silkworm Books, 2012), £11.99 In September 2006 the Thai military staged a coup d’etat and overthrew the democratically elected and popular government of Taksin Shinawat. By winning successive elections on the basis of modernising and pro-poor… Continue Reading
Alan Wieder, Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid (Jacana Media, 2013), £20 Joe Slovo and Ruth First were South Africans who spent their lives (and in Ruth’s case gave her life) in the struggle against apartheid.… Continue Reading