Perry Anderson, The New Old World (Verso, 2009), £24.99 Given the crisis that has gripped Europe over the last year, exposing deep faultlines within the EU, there is no better time for a Marxist examination of the union to appear.… Continue Reading
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, (Monthly Review Press, 2010), £14.95 The failure of the world powers to reach a substantial agreement on carbon emissions at the Cancún summit in… Continue Reading
Ian Goodyer, Crisis Music: The Cultural Politics of Rock Against Racism (Manchester University Press, 2009), £60 Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR)—in tandem with Unite Against Fascism (UAF)—has played a key role in the movement to take on the British National… Continue Reading
Ha–Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, (Allen Lane, 2010), £20.00 Ha-Joon Chang is an economist based at Cambridge who has made a reputation as a critic of the free-market orthodoxy in development economics. Thus in Kicking… Continue Reading
Alison J Ayers (ed), Gramsci, Political Economy and International Relations Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), £55 It says a good deal about the nature of the academy that despite Marxism’s internationalist perspective it was until recently at best marginalised and at… Continue Reading
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Honour Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (Norton, 2010), £19.99 Kwame Anthony Appiah has had an idea: “appeals to reason, morality, or religion aren’t enough to ring in reform. Practices are eradicated only when they come into… Continue Reading
Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh and Jon Mee (eds), Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), £50 Charles Dickens was not a writer who liked to sit on the fence. A passionate advocate of… Continue Reading
History Commission, CPI (M) History of the Communist Movement in India: Volume 1 (Leftword, 2005), $25 The 1917 Russian Revolution inspired millions of people living under colonial rule to take up the fight against empire. That workers and peasants in… Continue Reading
Alex Callinicos, Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World, (Polity Press, 2010), £14.99 A book’s dedication rarely relates closely to its content but this is an exception. Dedicated to the memories of Chris Harman and Peter Gowan,… Continue Reading
Mark Bould and China Mieville (eds), Red Planets, Marxism and Science Ficiton (Pluto Press, 2009), £19.99 This collection of essays provides a critical analysis of science fiction (SF) within the media of film and novels. The genre, which involves exploring… Continue Reading