Islam through the looking-glass
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (Monthly Review, 2004), £12.99 Continue Reading
Book reviews
Hidden jewels from the Balkans
A review of Andreja Zivkovic and Dragan Plavsic (eds), The Balkan Socialist Tradition: Balkan Socialism and the Balkan Federation, 1871-1915 (Revolutionary History, vol 8, no 3, 2003), £12.95 Continue Reading
A truly human culture
A review of Al Richardson (ed), Victor Serge, Collected Writings on Literature and Revolution (Francis Boutle, 2004), £12.99 Continue Reading
Isaac Deutscher: the prophet, his biographer and the watchtower
The materialist conception of history was once described by a notable practitioner, the late Edward Thompson, as ‘perhaps the strongest discipline deriving from the Marxist tradition’.2 Of all the different modes available to that discipline, biography is the least commonly… Continue Reading
Can capitalism go on forever?
A review of Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge, 2003), £9.99 Continue Reading
Life after capitalism
A review of Hilary Wainwright, Reclaim the State (Verso, 2003), £15; George Monbiot, The Age of Consent (Flamingo, 2003), £13.99; Michael Albert, Parecon (Verso, 2003), £16; and Alex Callinicos, An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (Polity, 2003), £12.50 Continue Reading