A review of The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, Oliver Eagleton (Verso), £12.99 Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown—a roll call of past Labour Party prime ministers hardly conjures up hope for… Continue Reading
A review of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Christopher Leonard (Simon and Schuster), £25 There is nothing better than a crisis when it comes to making money, but only if you are… Continue Reading
A review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow (Allen Lane, 2021), £11.99 Since its publication in 2021, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been greeted with extravagant… Continue Reading
A review of Abolish the Family! A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Sophie Lewis (Verso, 2022), £8.99 Abolish the Family! is an extended essay that looks at a range of thinkers and movements in order to reveal the co-dependent relationship… Continue Reading
A review of Revolution is the Choice of the People: Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East and North Africa, Anne Alexander (Bookmarks, 2022), £12 Since 2019, the world has been witnessing a “third cycle of revolt”, following the anti-globalisation… Continue Reading
A review of Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London, Vic Gatrell (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £25 On the night of 23 February 1820, 25 impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato… Continue Reading
A review of I Saw Democracy Murdered: The Memoir of Sam Russell, Journalist, Colin Chambers and Sam Russell (Routledge, 2022), £34.99 On 14 September 1937, the Daily Worker published an article in which Frank Frankford, a renegade member of the… Continue Reading
A review of Socialism or Extinction. The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Crisis, Martin Empson (Bookmarks, 2022), £10 In 1915, during the First World War, Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg saw two possible futures: socialism or barbarism. In… Continue Reading
A review of Victor Grayson: In Search of Britain’s Lost Revolutionary, Harry Taylor (Pluto, 2021), £16.99 Although the Edwardian era may have been the Indian summer of Victorian grandeur, it was also a period of growth for British socialism. The… Continue Reading
A review of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender and the Dialectics of Liberation, Kevin B Anderson, Kieran Durkin and Heather A Brown (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), £95 This edited collection provides a valuable, stimulating and thought-provoking introduction to… Continue Reading