Beverly J Silver, Forces of Labour: Workers$7_$ _Movements and Globalisation since 1870 (Cambridge University, 2003), £16.99 Beverly Silver has written an important, accessible and I think excellent book that contributes significantly to our understanding of workers’ bargaining power under global… Continue Reading
Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow, the Hidden Life of Garbage (New Press, 2005), £8_._99 On average each American produces almost 4.2 pounds (2 kg) of rubbish a day. Almost a third of this is packaging. This staggering statistic starts Heather Rogers’… Continue Reading
Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: Extracts from Alastair Campbell Diaries (Hutchinson, 2007), £25 Soon after he had accompanied Tony Blair on his famous journey across the world to Hayman Island to pledge allegiance to Rupert Murdoch’s business interests, Alastair Campbell… Continue Reading
Richard Saull, The Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics (Pluto, 2007), £22.50 Richard Saull’s new book provides a comprehensive analysis of the history and dynamics of the Cold War and of the world order that emerged after… Continue Reading
David Hardiman, Histories for the Subordinated (Seagull, 2007), £18.99 This is a selection of David Hardiman’s key writings, published between 1984 and 1996. They were all informed by his association with the influential and controversial Subaltern Studies project, which produced… Continue Reading
Paul Burkett, Marxism and Ecological Economics (Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill, 2006), £48.30 Paul Burkett, along with John Bellamy Foster, is one of the Marxists who has done most to engage with the ideas and the theorists to emerge from… Continue Reading
Régis Debray, Praised Be Our Lords (Verso, 2007), £19.99 Régis Debray first came to prominence in the 1960s when he published various articles and a short book, Revolution in the Revolution?, about guerrilla struggles in Latin America. This aroused considerable… Continue Reading
Achin Vanaik (ed), Selling US Wars (Aris, 2007), £10.99 Selling US Wars is a collection of essays by authors such as Susan George, Walden Bello and Mike Marqusee, which challenges the arguments through which the US has sought to justify… Continue Reading
Nikolai Bukharin, Socialism and its Culture (Berg, 2007), £16.99 Under normal circumstances any reviewer for this journal would take one look at Nikolai Bukharin’s Socialism and its Culture and consign it to the nearest dustbin. Written at the height of… Continue Reading
Nadje Al–Ali, Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (Zed Books, 2007), £14.99 The history of Iraq since 1948 has been recounted many times, usually as a dreary sequence of repressive regimes: monarchy, revolution, dictatorship, occupation. Nadje Al-Ali… Continue Reading