Donald Filtzer, Wendy Z. Goldman, Gijs Kessler and Simon Pirani (eds), A Dream Deferred: New Studies in Russian and Soviet Labour History (Peter Lang, 2008), £52.70 The great American poet, Langston Hughes asked “What happens to a dream deferred? Does… Continue Reading
Richard B Day and Daniel Gaido (eds), Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record, (Haymarket, 2011), $36 “The revolutionary centre is moving from the West to the East,” writes German socialist Karl Kautsky in 1903 in the first article in… Continue Reading
Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press, 2009), £18 Black Flame is the first of a two-volume project that attempts to re-examine the history and theory of “anarchism’s… Continue Reading
Terry Thomas, Criminal Records: A Database for the Criminal Justice System and Beyond (Palgrave, 2007), £45 In this important, historically informed mapping of contemporary criminal records policy Terry Thomas overviews the emergence and growth of criminal records from the Victorian… Continue Reading
Jane Hardy, Poland’s New Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2009), £ 13.99 Throughout the Cold War, Poland played a central role in developments within the Soviet bloc, often representing a beacon of workers’ struggle against its inherently sclerotic economy and repressive Stalinist… Continue Reading
Fred Pearce, Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash (Eden Project Books, 2010), £12.99 In the 200 years since the Reverend Thomas Malthus first penned his tract An Essay on the Principle of Population the question of… Continue Reading
Emilie Bickerton, A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma (Verso, 2009), £12.99 This book charts the story of the most significant film journal in history, not only in its native France, but throughout the world. Cahiers (“notebooks”) was an active—and… Continue Reading
Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson (eds), Raya Dunayevskaya: The Power of Negativity—Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx (Lexington Books, 2002), £16.95 The relationship of Marx and historical materialism to Hegelian dialectics has long been a source… Continue Reading
Gabriel Kolko, World in Crisis: The End of the American Century (Pluto, 2009), £12.99 In his introduction to World in Crisis Gabriel Kolko writes provocatively that “American capitalism is tending towards committing suicide—and is taking other nations with it.” Kolko… Continue Reading
Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Brill, 2009), £104 So much quoted, less read and even less understood, Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks must be one of the most cited works by any Marxist. Peter Thomas has produced… Continue Reading