A review of Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 (Merlin Press, 2006), £14.95 In the past few months many articles and books have discussed the disaster facing humanity as a result of… Continue Reading
Tom Sito, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson (University of Kentucky Press, 2006), £16.50 On 27 May 1941 one of Walt Disney’s top animators, Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, was… Continue Reading
Gareth Dale, Between State Capitalism and Globalisation: the Collapse of the East German Economy (Peter Lang, 2004), £30 Gareth Dale, Popular Protest in East Germany, 1945–1989 (Routledge, 2005), £65 Gareth Dale, The East German Revolution of 1989 (Manchester University Press,… Continue Reading
A review of Bill Dunn, Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour (Palgrave, 2004), £45 Bill Dunn, whose edited collection on Trotsky was recently reviewed on these pages, has produced an excellent critique of the assumption, common across parts of… Continue Reading
A review of John Rees, Imperialism and Resistance (Routledge, 2006), £14.99 Imperialism has entered the public political discourse over the last five years in a way which would have seemed highly improbable for most of the preceding generation or more.… Continue Reading
A review of Jonathan I Israel, Enlightenment Contested (Oxford, 2006), £30 This is a long (871 pages of text), often repetitive, occasionally confusing, and very important book. It continues the challenge to the conventional view of the Enlightenment made by… Continue Reading
A review of Scott Mann, Heart of a Heartless World: Religion as Ideology (Black Rose Books, 1999), £13.99 How should socialists relate to social movements whose aims are informed by religious ideas? A moment’s consideration of this problem is enough… Continue Reading
A review of D L Raby, Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today (Pluto, 2006), £15, Tariq Ali, Pirates of the Caribbean—Axis of Hope (Verso, 2006), £14.99 and Michael Lebowitz, Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st Century (Monthly… Continue Reading
A review of David Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes (Bloomsbury, 2006), £25 With the publication of his supposed ‘diaries’, David Blunkett has achieved an impressive hat-trick: the former heads of the Metropolitan Police, the Prison Service and the Armed Forces have… Continue Reading
A review of Alex Callinicos, The Resources of Critique (Polity, 2006), £16.99 Alex Callinicos attempts to deal with important questions in this book. How is it possible for people conditioned by the structures of a certain society to go beyond… Continue Reading