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
A review of World Crisis: Essays in Revolutionary Socialism, Nigel Harris and John Palmer (eds) (Routledge, 2022), £27.99 The best ever collection of writings from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)—or the International Socialists, as it was known at the time—was… Continue Reading
A review of Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14, Ralph Darlington (Pluto, 2023), £19.99 “There has never before been a series of three consecutive years marked as a whole by such widespread industrial unrest”.1 This comment from Labour Gazette demonstrates the… Continue Reading
A review of The New Age of Catastrophe, Alex Callinicos (Polity, 2022) £18 Alex Callinicos’s The New Age of Catastrophe is a hugely important book. Capitalism depends on divide and rule and is endlessly inventive in that regard. In the… Continue Reading
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