A review of The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain 1660-1800, James D Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2022), £75 From the 16th until the 19th century, the multifaceted process known as enclosure transformed England’s rural landscape.… Continue Reading
A review of The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini (Harper Collins, 2023), £20 Unsurprisingly, Angela Saini’s latest book has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from people who want to challenge sexism and who recognise the destructive global impact… Continue Reading
Sudan is no stranger to war, but the conflict that erupted on 15 April 2023 between the two generals who earlier led the military coup of October 2021 has shattered the capital city and thrown millions of people into crisis.1… Continue Reading
A review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow (Allen Lane, 2021), £11.99 Since its publication in 2021, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been greeted with extravagant… Continue Reading
The term “lean production” refers to a series of organisational processes and techniques developed by Toyota and popularised by James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos in their bestselling work, The Machine That Changed The World: The Triumph of Lean… Continue Reading
The coup that returned Myanmar’s military to power in February 2021 caused shock and revulsion around the world. It brought an abrupt end t0 the limited democracy and real political freedoms that had emerged over the previous ten years after… Continue Reading
One year after the brutal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, those who have opposed Russia and NATO stand vindicated.1 The Eastern European country is a battleground for United States and NATO ambitions to reassert their hegemony in the… Continue Reading
A review of Revolution is the Choice of the People: Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East and North Africa, Anne Alexander (Bookmarks, 2022), £12 Since 2019, the world has been witnessing a “third cycle of revolt”, following the anti-globalisation… Continue Reading
A review of Socialism or Extinction. The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Crisis, Martin Empson (Bookmarks, 2022), £10 In 1915, during the First World War, Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg saw two possible futures: socialism or barbarism. In… Continue Reading
In June 1952, Grace Carlson, one of the staunchest members of the United States’ Socialist Workers Party (SWP), tidied her desk in the offices of the organisation’s Militant newspaper and left the building.1 She had been the only woman defendant… Continue Reading