bq. A review of James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador (Pluto Press, 2005), £17.99 Latin America is in turmoil. What is written today will be obsolete tomorrow. People’s struggles to shift the… Continue Reading
bq. A review of Romila Thapar, Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History (Verso, 2005), £17 On 6 December 1992 the Babri Mosque at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, north India, was demolished by a mob organised by the Bharati Janata… Continue Reading
bq. A review of V G Kiernan, America: The New Imperialism—From White Settlement to World Hegemony with a preface by E J Hobsbawm and an epilogue by J Trumpbour (Verso, 2005), £15, and Neil Smith, The Endgame of Globalization (Routledge… Continue Reading
A review of Neil Redfern, Class or Nation: Communists, Imperialism and Two World Wars (Tauris Academic Studies, 2005), £47.50 Academic discussion of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has in recent years been dominated by attempts to minimise the… Continue Reading
A review of Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Continuum, 2004), £9.99 No argument about the kind of society we want can ignore the question of culture. Stalinism provided a bureaucratic parody of the relationship between culture… Continue Reading
A review of Hugh Roberts, The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002 (Verso, 2003), £17, and Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War (Hurst, 2000), £16.50 In December 1991 the Islamic Salvation Front, FIS, appeared to be on the verge of a remarkable victory… Continue Reading
A review of Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent (Harvard University Press, 2004), £35.95 What is the explanation for neo-liberalism sweeping aside nearly all other ways of running a capitalist economy in the last quarter century? This is something… Continue Reading
A review of Martha Gimenez and Lise Vogel (eds), Science and Society Special Issue: Marxist-Feminist Thought Today, vol 69, no 1 (January 2005), £3.50 Any effective challenge to women’s oppression must be based on a Marxist analysis—that is the central… Continue Reading
A review of Paul Foot, The Vote: How It was Won and How It was Undermined (Viking, 2005), £25 Let me suggest at the outset another sub-title for the late Paul Foot’s most informative book, The Vote: How It was… Continue Reading
A review of Pierre Broué, The German Revolution, 1917-1923, translated by John Archer, edited by Ian Birchall and Brian Pearce (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2005), Euro 129 ‘This not a German event. There no longer are any “German events”.’1… Continue Reading