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Month: January 2005
A highly successful school
More than 180 people attended a day school organised jointly by International Socialism and the journal Historical Materialism in London last November. Entitled, Capitalism: Where it came from and where it’s going , it centred around three sets of discussions… Continue Reading
Contested values
A review of Olivier Roy, Globalised Islam: The Search for the New Ummah (Hurst, 2004), £16.95; Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy, Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection (Hurst, 2004), £14.95; Muzaffar Alam, The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800 (Hurst, 2004), £35 Continue Reading
A life on the left
A review of John Saville, Memoirs from the Left (Merlin Press, 2003), £14.95 Continue Reading
Marx or the multitude?
A review of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Penguin, 2004), £19.99
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Dylan’s back pages
A review of Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (Simon and Schuster, 2004), £16.99 Continue Reading
Empty method man
A review of Kieran Allen, Max Weber: A Critical Introduction (Pluto Press, 2004), £11.99
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The false promise
A review of John Rose, The Myths of Zionism (Pluto, 2004), £14.99 Continue Reading
Marxism on the web
Over the last decade the Marxists Internet Archive has become the most comprehensive online collection of left wing texts. Martin Empson spoke to some of the volunteers behind the project about their aims and methods. Tell us how the Marxists… Continue Reading
Mulk Raj Anand: novelist and fighter
The Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand passed away at the grand old age of 98 last September. He was arguably the greatest exponent of Indian writing in English, whose literary output was infused with a political commitment that conveyed the… Continue Reading