Apologists for imperialism have virtually stopped mentioning Iraq. They keep as quiet as they can about the horrors produced by the US and British sponsored Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. But they crow openly about the Boy’s Own derring-do of our… Continue Reading
Neil Faulkner, Rome: Empire of the Eagles (Pearson, 2008), £21.99 Neil Faulkner’s new book should be a welcome publication for the readers of this journal, following his earlier articles here (for example in International Socialism 109 and 116). 1 Its… Continue Reading
Boris Kagarlitsky, Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System, (Pluto, 2008), £40 Boris Kagarlitsky is a prolific commentator on modern Russia who has also written on wider trends in global capitalism. It is impossible to read a book… Continue Reading
Gerry Mooney and Alex Law (eds), New Labour/Hard Labour? Restructuring and Resistance inside the Welfare Industry (Policy Press, 2007), £22.99 This book arrives at a time when the bewildering doublespeak beloved of New Labour reaches ever giddier heights. Who knew… Continue Reading
George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: Poet of the Revolution (Francis Boutle, 2007), £12.50 Marcel Martinet was born in France in 1887. In his lifetime he would witness huge social transformations. Technological advances around the turn of the century meant big changes… Continue Reading
Colin Renfrew, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007), £14.99 After three decades of debates on human evolution dominated by Richard Dawkins’s Selfish Gene, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, it is a great relief to read a… Continue Reading
Bob Jessop, State Power: A Strategic-Relational Approach (Polity, 2008), £17.99. State Power presents the most recent developments in Bob Jessop’s three decades long research project on state theory. Inspired by his reading of Marxism, Jessop has become one of the… Continue Reading
Daniel J Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm (Pennsylvania State University, 2007), £36.50 The Halas and Batchelor animated film of Animal Farm had its world premiere in New York on 29 December 1954. A fortnight… Continue Reading
Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton University, 2007), £19.95 It’s an old question, but despite the academic fashion of dismissing it, it’s a question that returns in both academic and political guise with… Continue Reading
Jonathan Neale, Stop Global Warming: Change the World (Bookmarks, 2008), £11.99 There are already many excellent books on climate change. Indeed, it seems like almost every environmental commentator either has written or is in the process of producing one. Not… Continue Reading