A review of Claudio Katz, El Porvenir del Socialismo (The Future of Socialism), Herramiento, Buenos Aires The anti-capitalist movement since Seattle, the anti-war movement and the series of popular uprisings in Latin America have given new life to revolutionary Marxism… Continue Reading
A review of Ygael Gluckstein, Stalin’s Satellites in Europe This review of a book by Tony Cliff (using his real name, Ygael Gluckstein) originally appeared in 1953 in the French journal Preuves. For more on the background to this review… Continue Reading
A review of Humayun Ansari, The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800 (Hurst & Company, 2004), £16.50 Can history teach us anything about a political approach to Britain’s Muslims, and how we should regard them in terms of race… Continue Reading
A review of Kevin Murphy, Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory (Berghahn Books, 2005), £45; and Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power: the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Pluto Press, 2004), £12.99
Pick of the quarter Pride of place this quarter must go to the devastating critique by Vivek Chibber (whose book, Locked in Place, John Game has reviewed in this issue of IS) of Niall Ferguson’s much-praised glorification of the British… Continue Reading
A review of Isaac Ilyich Rubin, A History of Economic Thought (Bertram), £19.99 Continue Reading
Supermarkets are hugely influential in 21st century corporate globalisation and capital accumulation. Wal-Mart (which owns Asda) is the world’s biggest corporation, and the British multinational Tesco is one of Britain’s biggest companies, worth around £40 billion in 2002. During the… Continue Reading
A review of Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European (Verso, 2004), £8 Continue Reading
A review of Jonathan I Israel, Radical Enlightenment (Oxford, 2002), £20.99 Continue Reading
A review of Vivek Chibber, Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialisation in India (Princeton University Press, 2003), £26.95 Continue Reading