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Mapping the Welsh way

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution, Daniel Evans, Kieron Smith and Huw Williams (eds) (Parthian, 2021), £10 Mythmaking is plentiful in the political and cultural history of Wales. For instance, the antiquarian Iolo Morganwg (also… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Wales

Hitler among the conspiracy theorists

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination, Richard Evans (Penguin, 2021), £9.99 Even as astute an historian as Richard Evans could never have foreseen the excellent timing of his latest work, which appeared amid… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised conspiracy theories, Hitler, The Nazis

Theorising China’s transition

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949, Ralf Ruckus (PM Press, 2021), £12 In The Communist Road to Capitalism German activist Ralf Ruckus takes a rather different approach… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised China

The dialectics of liberation

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Dialectics of Revolution: Hegel, Marxism and its Critics through a Lens of Race, Class, Gender and Colonialism, Kevin B Anderson (Daraja Press, 2020), £20 Marxist theorist Kevin Anderson has had an abiding interest in reasserting the centrality… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised dialectics, Hegel, Lenin, philosophy

Working for the clampdown, fighting the clampdown

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain, Jane Hardy (Pluto, 2021), £19.99 A typical protocol for a book review is to begin with an outline of its purposes and structure, to proceed… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Migrant workers, precarious workers, Trade unions

Empire and racial capitalism: the history of St Louis

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of The Broken Heart of America: St Louis and the Violent History of the United States, Walter Johnson (Basic, 2020), £15 The Broken Heart of America is a tremendous book that everyone interested in the history of the… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised United States

Britain’s fishing crisis after Brexit

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The need to “seize back control of fishing rights in British waters” was pitched as a symbol of all that was wrong with the European Union by the Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.1 The right-wing Brexit campaign, including Nigel… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brexit, Ecology, Environment, European Union, Fish, fisheries, Fishing

The taming of Podemos

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The world economic crisis of 2008-9 and the politics of austerity it ushered in saw the rise of mass movements of resistance in many parts of the world.1 In some cases, this formed the context for the radical left to… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Spain, the Spanish State

Dear England? Nationalism and “progressive patriotism” in sport

Posted on 18th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

What has made sport so uniquely effective a medium for inculcating national feelings…is the ease with which even the least political or public individuals can identify with the nation as symbolised by young persons excelling at what practically every man… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Culture, Football, Nationalism, Patriotism, Progressive patriotism, Sport

Jane McAlevey’s organising model: is it a rank and file strategy?

Posted on 15th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The union organising model associated with Jane McAlevey has a growing influence among union activists in Britain and internationally.1 As a former union organiser in the United States, and now an advisor to unions and author of several books, her… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Rank and file, Trade union bureaucracy, trade unionism, Trade unions

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