The false promise
A review of John Rose, The Myths of Zionism (Pluto, 2004), £14.99 Continue Reading
Book reviews
When Rosmer reviewed Cliff
In 1952 George Allen and Unwin published Tony Cliff’s first book, Stalin’s Satellites in Europe (under his real name, Ygael Gluckstein), in which he applied the theory of state capitalism to the ‘people’s democracies’ of Eastern Europe. The work was… Continue Reading
Roman history from below?
A review of Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome (The New Press, 2003), £14.95
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Reclaiming Sartre
A review of Ian Birchall, Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Books, 2004), £36.50 Continue Reading
Imperialism: just a phase we’re going through?
A review of Alex Callinicos, The New Mandarins of American Power (Polity Press, 2003), £13.99; Imperialism Now (Monthly Review, August 2003), £8; David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2003), £16.99; Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), The New Imperial Challenge: Socialist Register 2004 (Merlin, 2003), £14.95 Continue Reading
The state of the union
A review of Joseph Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties: Seeds of Destruction (Penguin, 2003), £18.99 and Paul Krugman, The Great Unravelling: From Boom to Bust in Three Scandalous Years (Allen Lane, 2003), £18.99. Continue Reading
All praise the market!
A review of Nigel Harris, The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalisation, the State and War (IB Tauris, 2003), £24.50 Continue Reading
The self conscious critic
A review of Terry Eagleton, After Theory (Allen Lane, 2003), £18.99 Continue Reading
In the middle way
A review of Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002), £25 Continue Reading
Digging deeper
A review of Thomas C Patterson, Marx’s Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists (Berg, 2004), £15.99 Continue Reading