A review of John Lynch, Simon Bolivar: A Life (Yale University Press, 2006), £25 The Communication and Information Ministry of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela has recently published a short pamphlet called Simon Bolivar: Liberator of Nations, Homeland Creator. It… Continue Reading
Pick of the quarter The US-British occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq has led to a convergence between different sections of the anti-imperialist left internationally. While there are still those who believe they can somehow claim to be principled socialists without… Continue Reading
A review of Norman Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (Verso, 2005), £16.99 My advanced computer’s software does not seem to recognise the word Islamophobia. Each time I try to key in the… Continue Reading
A review of Stephen G Rabe, US Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), £14.50 In the early 1960s both Conservative and Labour governments in Britain were complicit in CIA efforts to destabilise… Continue Reading
A reviw of Donny Gluckstein, The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy (Bookmarks, 2006), £14.99 At a time when issues of political power and democracy are widely debated in the movement, a new study of the Par is Commune is… Continue Reading
A review of Carl R Weinberg, Labor, Loyalty, Rebellion: Southwestern IllinoisCoal Miners and World War I (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), £20.95 On 15 April 1918 a ‘patriotic’ lynching took place near Collinsville, Illinois. Robert Prager, a 30 year old… Continue Reading
A review of Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (Verso, 2006), £15.99 Soon there will be more people living in the city of Mumbai than in the continent of Australia. Like Mexico City or Seoul- Injon it is set to become… Continue Reading
A review of Bill Dunn and Hugo Radice (eds), 100 years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects (Pluto Press, 2006), £18.99 Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution was, as Michael Lowy writes in this volume, ‘one of the most astonishing political… Continue Reading
A review of Elaine Graham-Leigh, The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Boydell Press, 2005), £50 Readers of this journal may be familiar with Elaine Graham-Leigh as a Respect activist. Others will have heard her talk on medieval heresy… Continue Reading
A review of Tithi Bhattacharya, The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005). This is an important book that takes up one of the most significant developments in early modern Indian history—the… Continue Reading