A masterly analysis of the American presidential election by Mike Davis dominates the excellent new issue of New Left Review (II/79).1 The article combines a grasp of the complex demographic and sociological trends behind Barack Obama’s victory with an eye… Continue Reading
Paul Clark, Youth Culture in China (Cambridge University Press, 2012), £18.99 Paul Clark is a professor in Modern Chinese Popular Culture at the University of Auckland, so there is no doubt this book will end up on the essential reading… Continue Reading
Minkah Makalani, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), £34.50 This work is a very useful if perhaps overly ambitious introduction to what Minkah Makalani calls “the history… Continue Reading
Motsomi Ndala Marobela, Political Economy of Botswana Public Sector Management: From Imperialism to Neoliberalism (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2010), £68 Motsomi Marobela provides a comprehensive review of the suite of reforms that have dominated the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa… Continue Reading
Review of Peter Brown (2012) Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of the Christian West: 350–550 (Princeton University Press, 2012), £27.95 How did Christians come to be intensely relaxed about people being… Continue Reading
Ben Goldacre, Bad Pharma (Fourth Estate, 2012), £13.99 The threat to our NHS is something we all know about, but Bad Pharma exposes another crisis in medicine: the power of the pharmaceutical industry, “Pharma”, to protect its private interests. Ben… Continue Reading
Kevin B Anderson, Marx at the Margins (University of Chicago Press, 2010), £15.00 Frederick Engels used to remark that the struggle for socialism occurs on the political, economic and ideological plains. Marx at the Margins is a valuable contribution to… Continue Reading
John Rose and Sebastian Zehetmair1 are quite right to welcome the publication of David Fernbach’s collection of Paul Levi’s writings.2 There is still much to be learnt from the early years of the Communist International. For far too long the… Continue Reading
In a recent issue of International Socialism Nigel Harris provided a perspective on “characterising the period”. As one of its former editors and author of important articles and books, Nigel has made a significant contribution to the elaboration of some… Continue Reading
In International Socialism 136, Richard Seymour and Panos Garganas gave two different assessments of the political strategy the left should adopt in Greece.1 It is an important debate for revolutionaries in Greece and elsewhere. Panos puts forward an argument that… Continue Reading